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Speaking as a drunken, papist, mick, has anybody noticed that unlike the emrald isle, Mexico shares a contiguous border with the United States?

Further, unlike the Emrald Isle, there has been past conflict between the US and Mexico which resulted in positioning borders where they are now?

Also speaking as papist, gorilla-like paddy, has anyone noticed that the Mexicans in their “Su Casa es Mi Casa” demonstrations were talking about taking back territory? Not something you saw with turn of the century immigrants.

Call me an arrogant Mick, but Mexico as a country displays nothing but contemptible backwardness driven by elitism and corruption. It is nothing but “no-nothingness” that leads me to reject that? Chinga-te. Do you not think that the poor peasants that flock here will bring that system with them just as we glorious Irish brought a talent for politics?

Ahhh for a wee bit o’ history let us also contemplate the disdain that the elite of England felt for the common Irish which is mirrored by our political elite’s contempt for us commoners. ‘Tis the march of socialism that must be furthered, you angry white Americans are in the way of our unimpeded march’.

With an uninterrupted 70 year record of failure for socialism, who is the real know-nothing?

Call me an arrogant Mick, but Mexico as a country displays nothing
but contemptible backwardness driven by elitism and corruption.

I really liked your commentary.
And that line really does hit me.

I guess, even though I'm just an occassionaly sauced, sometimes
agnostic, sometimes non-denominational Christian believer,
of "mutt" heritage (Welsh, Danish, French, German, and G-d only
knows what sneaked in there!)...
I occasionally wish that some of our brave US military personnel of
Mexican extraction wouldn't just quitely form a corps of a thousand and
just take Mexico City, "dispose" of the current Mexican grandees,
and just declare it the 51st state.

And then I realize that's just a dream...fraught with all sorts
of possible "unintended consequences".

Do you not think that the poor peasants that flock here will bring that system with them just as we glorious Irish brought a talent for politics?

Oddly enough, it is very difficult to come up with evidence that the Irish ever demonstrated a talent for politics in Ireland. Quite the opposite.