01-27-2017, 01:49 AM
(01-27-2017, 01:30 AM)HarleyDog Wrote: Understand your point and well respected. Trying to bring light to why everyone does not agree the wall is a bad idea.
I gotcha. People are angry. Angry for a lot of different reasons. Hillary didn't lose the middle class because of the wall. She lost the middle class because of the economy. Among other things. In my opinion. A wall won't make America great again. I think a wall is like an Anti-Statue of Liberty monument.
Quote:Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
That's the poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. To paraphrase Bill Murray, we are the wretched refuse. We've been kicked out of all the other countries.
What are we going to put on the wall? "Wretched refuse keep out"? "Wretched refuse need not apply"? "No shoes, no shirt, no wretched refuse, no service"?
I've never seen an election like the one we just had and I hope I never see another like it.
It's damn shame we didn't have the option to tell the parties, "These are the choices you're giving us? The two most unpopular candidates ever? Uh uh. Go back to the drawing board. Start over. And don't come back until you've got some real damn choices. Not 'shit' and 'shittier.'"
