Normally, I’d be fine with “leaders” who make declarations demonstrating their unfitness for office, but we aren’t living in “normal”, and haven’t been for sometime now. Now, when it happens, it is as much an indictment of us as it is of the one doing the declaring.
The latest example? Jeb Bush.
From this piece in Breitbart:
“I’m going to say this and it will be on tape, and so be it. The way I look at this is someone who comes to our country because they couldn’t come legally, they come to our country because their family’s dad who loves their children was worried that their children didn’t have food on the table, and they wanted to make sure their family was intact. And they crossed the border because they had no other means to work to be able to provide for their family. Yes, they broke the law, but it’s not a felony. it’s kind of — it’s a — it’s an act of love. It’s an act of commitment to your family. I honestly think that’s a different kind of crime that should be, there should be a price paid, but it shouldn’t be — it shouldn’t rile people up that people are actually coming to this country to provide for their families. And the idea that we’re not going to fix this but with with comprehensive reform ends up trapping these people, when they could make a great contribution for their own their families but also for us.
So I think we need to get beyond the harsh political rhetoric to a better place. The great number of people who come to this country come because they have no opportunities in other places. They may love their country, but they come here because they want to provide for their families. And they can make a contribution to our country if we actually organized ourselves in a better way.”
Jeb is fully infected with the politician’s disease…that horrible malady which declares that there can be no limit on generosity and compassion, when rendering both with other people’s money.
Jeb sees future voters, and is willing to look past their willingness to break our laws, and take what a select few profit from offering. And “an act of love”? Really? “I love you so much I’ll break another nation’s laws in order to take from that country and society as much as I can for you. I love you so much that I’ll risk the separation of our family.” is not an expression of love that is cognizable to those familiar with the concept. But then I don’t believe that breaking the law to come here sets a good example for my family anyway.
And “They may love their country, but they come here because they want to provide for their families.” is a line that should forever shame this man. I love my family, and I love my country. That’s why I live here. And Jeb should love his countrymen and his country enough to understand why borders matter. Why immigration matters. And why the integrity of both matters. And I’m ashamed that anyone even being discussed as a future Presidential candidate refuses to see this as a cultural and a national security imperative. The fact that he’s a Bush in a post-9/11 world only makes this that much more problematic.
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