It’s Super Bowl commercial season. Corporations, hoping some slogan or visual gimmick will catch America’s eye, spend millions for 30 seconds of airtime. Agencies full of “Mad Men” are hired to produce those ads.
Instead of some Madison Avenue firm, I’d hire the democrat consultant who concocted the locution “Dreamer”. Dreamer’s the best deceptive marketing scheme since the phrase, “honey bucket”. It’s brilliant.
Who are Dreamers? They’re children of illegal aliens. Here illicitly, Dreamers aren’t American citizens. 800,000 strong, they’re presented as typical kids, only without the faults. To hear tell, they’re strictly cream-of-the-crop. They’re seen in newspapers and at rallies, paraded around by democrats and immigrant advocates. They’re all handsome, well spoken, college-bound students. There’s nary a gang-banger, slacker or scofflaw in the bunch. If Dreamers are perfect, who commits crimes attributed to young people? Only citizen’s kids? Should we re-name our own children, “Nightmares”?
Dreamers are depicted as economic and intellectual dynamos. A recent Dispatch/Argus piece is an example. If given legal status, they’ll contribute untold billions to America’s economy. Guaranteed. Deporting these future Edisons and Einsteins, would prove disastrous.
Dreamers already have citizenship where they were born. Activists portray them as invaluable. Why aren’t political leaders in Dreamers’ home countries demanding their return? A case can be made that Dreamers are a resource stolen from their birth countries. America’s plundering its neighbor’s best and brightest. Is that fair? Moral? Don’t underdeveloped countries need the Dreamers’ talents more than we do?
Dreamers could, “Make (wherever) Great Again!” Why not let them?
Eugene Mattecheck Jr. Moline
Excellent observations, Gene, You ‘nativist’ you!
Seriously, a well-written, thoughtful analysis. Responsible Republicans should make similar such points in a serious debate on this issue…there is solid data to reinforce the most important of them.
This issue can be resolved in a responsible and compassionate way without compromising sound principles and resisting the application of common sense.
Asking too much?
I started accepting a few friends on FB. Wow! Our side sends a lot of feel-good links and clever yet vacuous memes. Just like the left. Slightly less mean. It’s harder to post, “What I said,” than it is to post, “What HE said.” As for resolving the Dreamer issue, I’d trade a limited, well vetted, Dreamer quasi-amnesty for the wall, chain-migration and visa lottery.
Thanks for the props.
Tops Gene. We are tired of the left wrapping themselves in claims of moral superiority and compassion. They have no superior claim.