American has come to resemble the feet of the idol in the vision of Daniel with feet of soft clay and toes of iron - there is strength as in the iron toes but the toes and feet do not adhere to each other but are divided and weak.
I would suggest that one reason the Lib-Progs prefer mixtures to solutions is that they discovered in the early 20th century during the Prohibition battle that when the body politic is roughly evenly divided it is easier to eke out a slim, winning majority by "salami-slicing" the body into competing little groups and then promising everything to each of them.
Likewise, they favor the unlimited intake of bodies from around the world because not only does it make their "salami-slicing" tactics more effective, but it can affect the distribution of House seats - which are currently (thanks to Slow Joe, among others) allocated on gross population without consideration of citizenship status. Why, otherwise, does one suppose that they have been sending much of the illegal cohort to the sparsely-populated Red states?
American has come to resemble the feet of the idol in the vision of Daniel with feet of soft clay and toes of iron - there is strength as in the iron toes but the toes and feet do not adhere to each other but are divided and weak.
Likewise from Shelly:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
I would suggest that one reason the Lib-Progs prefer mixtures to solutions is that they discovered in the early 20th century during the Prohibition battle that when the body politic is roughly evenly divided it is easier to eke out a slim, winning majority by "salami-slicing" the body into competing little groups and then promising everything to each of them.
Likewise, they favor the unlimited intake of bodies from around the world because not only does it make their "salami-slicing" tactics more effective, but it can affect the distribution of House seats - which are currently (thanks to Slow Joe, among others) allocated on gross population without consideration of citizenship status. Why, otherwise, does one suppose that they have been sending much of the illegal cohort to the sparsely-populated Red states?
Great post as always. I thought diversity was where some people went after high school.