This is an exciting day for Turn the Tides. A friend of mine and resident of Southern Arizona has agreed to guest-write. I want you all to know that I encourage and welcome the opportunity to post quality content from other sources. The readership of this blog isn't thing to shout about, so I wonder if it would even be worth the effort to you all. None-the-less, you're welcome to send me something.
Ironically, Mark mentions the concept of "haves" and "have-nots." My most recent post was awarded two comments that forced me to dig even deeper into the concept of political factions. In the next post I'll discuss my thoughts on the concept of those who have and those who don't. Though it is short, Mark brings up a very interesting point about the difference in perspective between the Left and the Right.
Larry McMurtry from the New York Review of Books blog plainly explains what is the greatest injustice of US border security:
The border at Nogales, Sonora, is fifty-five miles from where I write. I rarely go there, not because it’s dangerous—though it is dangerous—but because the deep sadness of the troubles there overwhelms me. And those troubles are much the same, all along the border from Matamoros, across from Texas, to Tijuana, across from California. Lately the drug cartels have upped the ante by pushing north: home invasions, smuggling humans, kidnapping, drugs and more drugs, violence and more violence.
But the sadness I feel at the border is not because of the violence: it’s the eternal struggle of poverty with plenty, a struggle that humiliates and degrades both parties.
What is amazing to me is that he lists all the problems that are associated with the US-Mexico border at yet he still believes that the greatest injustice is the inequality between the poor and the rich. What does this even have to do with border security? It just goes to show that the greatest evil facing the left today is inequality—not murderous drug cartels—but inequality. The left judges the world through the lens of race, gender, class. Trying to stem the inflow illegal immigrants is inherently wrong because the perception is that the haves are keeping out the have-nots. The home invasions, human smugglings, kidnappings, drugs, and violence that define the border at Nogales, Sonora are secondary.
See full article from the exerpt above: "The Trouble With Arizona"
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This helps me to understand the leftist mentality. While it still doesn't make sense to me, I now understand why they aren't concerned with what I call the real issues at hand (drugs, murders, home invasions etc...)right now. Good stuff.
In my post I make light of the fact that Larry McMurtry was most troubled by the “eternal struggle of poverty with plenty” that ensues at the US-Mexico border, even given the amount of violence that goes on there. Although I stand behind what I write, I need to make it clear that I also believe that inequality is a major problem facing the world today. I need to be clear that I have no love for bankers, brokers, financiers, or speculators that get rich by preying on the little guy and betting against the market.
I do, however, want to emphasize that I do not believe it is the role of the government to legislate equality. Forced equality and liberty cannot exist. My personal belief is that the only legitimate use of excess wealth is to help other people. However, the individual, not the government, must make this decision.
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