This People Crisis Is Most Certainly Is Not About Supposed "Open" Borders

What It is about is just as certainly a great indicator of whether we approach desperate people with open hearts or not though. And this is especially so when you consider that the desperation these people are motivated by is, in very large part, the result of our panicked reactions to other things concerning fears that we were manipulated with in the past. And boy, isn't it just the easiest of things these days to manipulate Americans fearful of something. But then that is what hate has always been about.

The bottom line here, however, is that it has been many decades of either Colonial resource rape, rabid anti Communism gone amuck, or a Drug War that excels in outdoing itself in ever more absurd, authoritarian reactionism, to a problem that has everything to do with human frailty, and mental illness, and very little to do with thinking you can just criminalize, and imprison, your way out of people doing bad behavior. And you'd think the folly of this approach would be crystal clear by now as we lead the world in incarcerations, but have no end of the drug problem in sight.

That this is also about dwindling, viable habitat also seems to escape all notice. And whether that lack of viability is an economic problem at its base, or an extreme weather situation at its base, hardly matters because the economics, and the extreme weather, both have such deeply integrated cross threads of mutually affecting process intents; which is, of course, just another way of saying that everything affects everything else. And if you think we can escape our responsibility for what has happened to these people, just because not all of us voted for one policy or another, you are sadly mistaken. And it won't matter how much you turn America into a horrible version of "Bunker-Fortress Authoritarianism, those responsibilities will still be there, inside and outside. Reminding us that our only hope of saving this planet is in getting everyone on board the helping process of fixing it. Because in that might be the possibility of not only a great spiritual reawakening, but one of great prosperity as well.

And it all starts when we realize that it is an obsolete operating system that makes us think that this has to remain a zero sum game. That keeps us locked into fighting each other over scraps, all without ever asking why that system provides working people only with scraps in the first place. While the privilaged few live high and dry, and only cry when we ask them to share the bounty.

The pernicious myth of “open borders”