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Originally Posted by Diomed
There is no debating people who do not make a single concession to "their side".
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This is not true at all. There are some things Trump does / wants that I agree with. I am not a Democrat; I wanted to vote Republican but I got stuck with a choice between Trump and Hillary.
Two examples off the top of my head....
I agree we need to build a wall. This is just common sense. We have a problem at our border, and we need to take action to fix it. However, with that said, building a wall is not going to fully end the problem. The vast majority of people who come to the US illegally do not go four wheeling through the desert, but come here legally and over stay. As for the drugs, they will go over the wall, under it, or around it. They are building submarines to carry drugs. At the very same time, here in Northern California, they just busted one hundred pot houses that are being run out of China of all places. We need to build a wall, but we cannot spend $600 billion for what will be a partial solution to our problem. I would love to build a sixty foot wall and have our military guarding a thirty mile buffer zone, but spending that kind of money to do it isn't going to happen. The president wants a sound bite that sounds good for his base "We are going to build a wall". Instead, the proper thing to do is to find out the areas where we have the most problems, and then spend $10 billion building walls there. The eventually goal should be to have a full wall across the entire southern border, combined with electronics surveillance with a fully staffed border patrol.
I also agree with the immigration ban. Again, common sense. We should not be accepting people from countries were terrorists are "bred". Syria and Yemen should be top of that list. Libya too. Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran too. Pakistan comes to mind. These are just countries we do not trust. However, the Trump administration went about it completely wrong. They said "We are in charge and this is what we are doing" which obviously did not work being as this is still be dragged out in court as I type this morning. Instead, they should have gotten together with the Democrats and said "We believe these countries have issues" and should have worked on a plan that limited if not outright ended immigration from such countries.
I don't have a side. I am not subscribed to any political groups, newsletters, Facebook groups, etc. It's just that nearly every decision the White House is making is bad, and it's because of Trump.