Aw shucks. Thanks, friends!
I was just concerned that, as you said... perhaps I got “too clever” for myself....
Ah well.
In journalism school, the idea is drilled into you that you must use the pyramid style, and always assume that the reader won’t read the next line.
Then when you start writing columns, you throw out that rule, figuring that people will read the whole thing, so be clever, be interesting, be thorough, etc. and sometimes I go too far with it, I suppose.
Thanks, patriots!
BTW, I did not realize you were the author. If I had I would not have been quite as harsh.
This would have been a great article 25 or so years ago. If people by now still do not understand how this has negatively impacted this country in every aspect, they never will IMO.
The discussion just got more and more weird until it wandered into a fever swamp of its own making. Of course the huge and swelling population of illegal and undocumented immigrants has become the overwhelming social and economic problem of our time, particularly affecting almost every facet of life in that territory once known as “the United States of America”.
We have a Current Occupant now squatting in the White Hut that promised to “fundamentally transform America”, but the fundamental transformation did not start with him, he only took advantage of a tide that has been rising for more than a century, beginning with the Progressive movement prior to the Great War, “a war to end all wars”, a crisis that was much too good to waste.
And waste it they did not. The old system of nation-states that kept a sort of continuous tension between competing royal houses was replaced with a new system of competing economic philosophies and/or ideologies which generated their own continuous tensions, and did not respect national boundaries or ethnic differences.