Deja Vu, part two

Since our last discussion, I have watched situations further deteriorate under the current administration, and I am beginning to draw some analogies between the long list of grievances expressed. Specifically, the similarities between our border control situation and the administration’s treatment of the current Middle East conflict. I have concluded that it is due to a strong, but minority influence in Congress.

The situation between Gaza and Israel has continued to escalate. My latest numbers indicate that approximately 4,000 rockets and missiles have been fired into Israel and a combined total of 250 lives have been lost.

With any luck, a cease-fire will be implemented by the time this article goes to print. Nothing would make me happier than to make this article irrelevant. Unfortunately, Hamas isn’t the only player in the region and Israel is now being shelled from Lebanon as well.

Throughout elements in the far left, there seems to be an equivocation between our strongest ally in the mid-east, a democratic state, and Hamas, which is recognized as a terror organization. In my mind, there is no such comparison, yet “Squad” charter members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and Rashida Tliab of Michigan have all made disparaging comments about Israel in the past week, and do not recognize our ally’s right to defend itself.

That’s offensive enough, yet the real irony is that the rockets attacking our ally may well have been purchased with funds from the mountain of cash that we provided to Iran under the Obama/Biden administration. Those could be our tax dollars shelling our historic ally. You can thank John Forbes Kerry for that.

At the same time, we have a dearth of enforcement at our southern border. US Customs and Border Protection officials have effectively been overrun since January 20, yet Representative Ocasio-Cortez has characterized our expulsion of people with histories of “aggravated” felonies as being racists. Our current policy is not to expel all felons, only those felonies that are aggravated, but that’s too restrictive for the former bartender and leader of the Squad.

Most immigrants are arriving from the “Northern Triangle,” (it’s called the Northern Triangle the same way that much of what is called the Midwest is mostly to the east of us here in the center of the country), yet we have people coming in from South America, Eastern Europe and Asia as well as drugs, human trafficking, and heaven knows what else. I worry about terrorism. I can’t imagine a better modern-day, Trojan Horse.

I take the border issue seriously, but personally, had I been Mr. Trump cruising down the escalator with a supermodel in tow, I wouldn’t have opened the conversation by calling immigrants rapists and murderers. I think he shot himself in the foot on that one. I would have discussed drugs, trafficking, and consumption of public services by people here illegally. I didn’t run, and he won, but those would have been my talking points.

It would be unkind for me to describe Mr. Biden as feckless, which is what some of my friends on the right are doing. I think it would be fairer to describe him as being in a delicate political situation. He seems to be stuck between the Bernie Sanders/Squad coalition on the far left and the mainstream members of his party. Mr Biden is walking a tightrope within his own caucus. He served decades in Congress before he joined the Executive Branch, so I’m quite confident that he is doing the whip-math on a daily basis, and for a relatively small (but growing) fringe faction, the Squad seems to be holding sway over his agenda.

We were warned that the 2020 election would have lasting effects on the future of our nation.

Unfortunately, it was a choice between a root canal and a colonoscopy. I now understand why politicians end their speeches with “God Save America.”