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<blockquote data-quote="Halbhh" data-source="post: 77649483" data-attributes="member: 375234"><p>Since you wrote such a substantive post, I'm using more than one post to reply.</p><p></p><p>Re the Border -- the stuff about 'undocumented immigrants' is mostly just a political <em>tactic</em>, calculated to create fear in order to win more votes.</p><p></p><p>When Trump says immigrants are <em>"poisoning the blood of our country",</em> it's a rhetoric (lie) meant to create fear to make more people vote for him.</p><p></p><p>Just as in various nations at different times -- when the evil group the nation had to be saved from was Jews, or Catholics, or here immigrant Latinos, etc... -- the aim is to lie about them enough to get people to fear them and vote for the leader that will save them from the other (the imagined evil group).</p><p></p><p> Literally, Trump is just using a demonization (slander) about immigrants in order to provoke fear and win votes.</p><p></p><p>So, the answer isn't to merely go along with Trump. It's fine to have better border security.</p><p></p><p>But it's essential/crucial to clearly point out what Trump is doing, and try to help people wake up from the fear dream Trump's lie creates.</p><p></p><p>That should not be just another sentence among 30 sentences about policy/accomplishments in a speech.</p><p></p><p>It should be the entire lone topic of a major speech, by itself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Halbhh, post: 77649483, member: 375234"] Since you wrote such a substantive post, I'm using more than one post to reply. Re the Border -- the stuff about 'undocumented immigrants' is mostly just a political [I]tactic[/I], calculated to create fear in order to win more votes. When Trump says immigrants are [I]"poisoning the blood of our country",[/I] it's a rhetoric (lie) meant to create fear to make more people vote for him. Just as in various nations at different times -- when the evil group the nation had to be saved from was Jews, or Catholics, or here immigrant Latinos, etc... -- the aim is to lie about them enough to get people to fear them and vote for the leader that will save them from the other (the imagined evil group). Literally, Trump is just using a demonization (slander) about immigrants in order to provoke fear and win votes. So, the answer isn't to merely go along with Trump. It's fine to have better border security. But it's essential/crucial to clearly point out what Trump is doing, and try to help people wake up from the fear dream Trump's lie creates. That should not be just another sentence among 30 sentences about policy/accomplishments in a speech. It should be the entire lone topic of a major speech, by itself. [/QUOTE]
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