Mexican President Obrador’s interview on 60 Minutes

 Fox News has an article outlining Mexican President Obrador’s interview on 60 Minutes in which Obrador said that, unless the United States complies with Latin America’s requests for aid, the tide of migrants will continue.  The headline, however reads “Mexican President says the flow of migrants will continue unless the US meets his demands.’  Although there is a typo in the headline, this is a cute effort to protect the alleged veracity of it with a set of quotation marks that only encompass “flow of migrants will continue.’

This is an example of Fox News doing the same thing that the liberal news outlets do all the time.  Purposely slanting their reporting to make a point that they believe to be important - even if it is untrue.  The implication of the article is that the Mexican President is “demanding” that America provide aid to Latin American countries, where as I believe that he is telling us that our problems with undocumented immigrants will continue unless we address poverty in Latin America.  He is also saying, very clearly, that he is not going to go out of his way to help us do the wrong thing.  It is an important difference and I absolutely agree with President Obrador.  Were I in his shoes, I would do precisely the same thing.  I see him as trying to talk sense to a neighbor that is driven by emotion and flip flop politics, not rational thought.

I also agree with critics of our aid program that it is ineffective, ridden with corruption and is not accomplishing its’ objectives in Latin America or anywhere else.  Further more it is symptomatic of the exact same relationship that exists between Western Europe and Africa.  Poor people always seek to live in wealthy communities if at all possible.  They are poor, not dumb.  The situation is compounded by rich countries desire for cheap labor, which encourages them to seek ways to permit a regulated flow of poor people into their countries.  Our favored solution is work permits, but there are both good hearted and mischievous people in this country that believe we should permit huge numbers of poor people into the country as a way of improving their lives.  Some of these people are motivated by their emotions and some by political machination.  I disagree with them because we are unable to absorb this magnitude of outsiders without dangerously straining our own economy and society.

Immigration is not the only place that Obrador tries to speak truth to us.  Drugs is another one.  The majority of the drugs that are killing so many Americans do indeed pass through Mexico on their way into this country, but the fundamental problem is not supply, it is demand.  Until we eliminate demand, drugs will find their way into America, no matter how much money we throw at trying to stop them and Mexico’s effort to help control them will be inadequate because the cartels are already at war with the central government in Mexico City.  I suggest that the root problem is an overly self-indulgent society inside this country.  We can’t even control our over-indulgence in fatty foods, let alone resist cocaine or the latest street drug being hyped by representatives of international crime cartels that are in place all over the country and it should not be overlooked that these gangs are also destroying the social fabric in our urban ghettos as well as dividing society into suburban authority and ghetto submission.

All of this has important implications for our future and I am arguing that we are not even beginning to come to grips with any of it.  Biden has flung the doors of the country open as widely as he possibly can and Trump wants to slam them shut.  Neither one of them is remotely interested in providing any real help to anyone outside of our non-existent borders.  Trump wants to ignore the “shithole countries” and make America Great Again and Biden wants to throw money at everything from Ukraine and Gaza to Taiwan without engaging in anything real anywhere.  Meanwhile China, has during my lifetime, changed from a land of periodic starvation to the second most powerful economy in the world, and they did it without one iota of help from anyone.

So, if I were influential, I would sit down with Obrador and a few of his neighbors and come up with a plan to improve the economies of Latin America such that the people living there do not want to escape their hell for our nirvana up here in the north, just over a non-existent line in the sand that we choose not to defend.  And I would encourage my European friends to do the same thing vis-a-vis Africa and the Middle East.  Every single one of my readers will see all of this as impossible and that will, very unfortunately, make it so.  We are a group of narrow minded, cowardly, ignoramuses, playing with virtual reality because real reality is too scary and unfathonable for our puny minds.  Computers are safer than real life.  Masks are safer than speech.  Monkeys with hands clamped down hard over eyes, ears and mouths.

PS:  I skip over the fact that the migrant flow is taking the most aggressive, fittest individuals with the most initiative, out of the host country, which further weakens those economies.  I am also skipping over the fact that we have absolutely no idea who these “undocumented immigrants” are and what their intentions are.  I am struck by the fact that 911 was carried out by a handful of miscreants, where presently we are inviting in anybody that wants to come in staggering, unknown numbers, for any reason imaginable, and we are even financing them after their arrival.  Go ahead, tell me again that we are not the dumbest people in the entire history of mankind, and,  oh yeah, it is all because Obrador is being mean to us in not refusing to house millions of people trying to wait out the current flip flop in American immigration policy so that they can get into nirvana.   We, you and I, have issues that are far more important!  Pronouns, the age of the fetus, gasoline prices, the number of chips in the bag, and our precious, all important, feelings.  We do not have time to think about Haiti, we have to put food on our own table.  We leave all of that  foreign stuff to our tribal leaders.

Bah!  We are the shadow of a once near-great people who have fallen into ignorant, cowardly, self-indulgence, and it is going to get us killed or worse.  I’m at the end of a very long life, so my imminent demise is not overly concerning.  I’m just massively pissed off that we, you and I, are throwing everything that a lot of very good people worked for away, because it is no longer fashionable to think.  Soon, thought will not be permitted, and we won’t even care.  “They” will give us head sets with programable reality as the replacement and there will be clear instructions on channel one as to where to stand in line for whatever.