Saturday, February 24, 2007
For Better or Worse
Feeling powerless to take on the bipartisan criminal enterprise in Congress, even liberals are increasingly susceptible to engaging in scapegoating the already marginalized (immigrants, refugees, dissidents, indigenous) for our declining standard of living, even though the implosion of our tenuous republic was caused in large part by the liberal imperial consensus.
Like they say, it's always easier to fix the blame than to fix the problem, and when fixing the problem requires facing up to the bloody facts of accumulated, unearned, First World privileges, liberals are unfortunately as wedded to fantasy as conservatives.
Creating an industry of detaining immigrants won't solve our problems any more than the industry of incarcerating black men, the industry of dumping toxic waste on Indian lands, or the industry of bombing the Third World. It will, however, further wed American citizens to the criminal enterprise; after all, we're an industrial people.
Like they say, it's always easier to fix the blame than to fix the problem, and when fixing the problem requires facing up to the bloody facts of accumulated, unearned, First World privileges, liberals are unfortunately as wedded to fantasy as conservatives.
Creating an industry of detaining immigrants won't solve our problems any more than the industry of incarcerating black men, the industry of dumping toxic waste on Indian lands, or the industry of bombing the Third World. It will, however, further wed American citizens to the criminal enterprise; after all, we're an industrial people.
