I have an addiction to the Lou Dobbs Show on CNN. I was told today that he's an old nativist. I didn't know what a nativist is. Like me, you can look it up on Wikipedia.
It drives my husband crazy. It's like watching the same show every night. It begins with a rehash of stuff happening as a result of our incursion into Iraq, and then it's a litany of bad things about illegal immigrants, overwhelmingly Mexican immigrants. As if one invasion parallels the other. One is good, because we’re doing the invading (with big guns), the other is bad, because it’s a bunch of Mexicans (unarmed). Wow, I think I've just defined nativist.
Being a conservative myself, I get very nervous when a guy like Lou Dobbs touts expanding government. According to Lou Dobbs, we need more border patrol agents, a big old fence, some kind of oversight to prevent defective product from entering this country, and so forth and so on. More, bigger, better. That's all socialist stuff.
But I still watch the show. I think I like the fantasy of Lou Dobbs. Maybe, just maybe, if we throw out every illegal alien and exand the government threefold, we'll live in paradise and never have to worry about crime again. We could safely walk through the streets late at night, like they used to do in Baghdad before the fall of Saddam, or in the Soviet Union before it fell apart. It's beguiling. It's austere. It's creepy.
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