Humanitarian Crisis?

It’s about quality of life. Not whether you or I draw a breath and live, feel and all the rest. No; it is about the quality of life we each have throughout all our time on earth.

Quality of life involves self-confidence, self-sufficiency, secure housing, food supplies and healthy body and soul. How well is our intellectual and social life? Are we relating to others well and productively? Are we collaborating and building community?

Community. The term requires more than one life lived in isolation. Isolation. It is a half-life. Not a full life. Full means relationship with another person. Hopefully more than one other person. It’s the interrelationship of the two persons that build strength individually and together. It takes two to tango.

And two grows to three, then four, and many, many more.

Community. Involved entanglements of relating to more than one person. These bring life and abundance to the self. It is instructed of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Together with others this is done. The self is not alone.

Togetherness is community. With all its ailments and joys thrown into the mix. Sorting out what works and what doesn’t within that group of people creates community. Whether a nation, a state, or a family, community is the root of mankind’s experience with life.

So, a humanitarian crisis on our southern border is the claim. What crisis would that be? Security? Personal health concerns of someone knocking on our door? A caravan of refugees seeking safety in another nation? Or not enough guns and tear gas cannisters to repel the hordes of asylum seekers?

Whose crisis is this? The hordes? Or the America of solace and hope?

The latter not. The former yes. And who is not welcoming these people? Who is defining this lack of welcome?

And who closed the border? Who armed the border? Who cried ‘wolf’ over and over again about the hordes coming? Who separated families from their children at the border. Who placed asylum seekers in detention camps in the desert? Who lost the children separated from parents and moved them to locations all over the USA? Who failed to keep track of these children?

Finally, who bungled the management of all this?

He who complains the loudest does so with false claims. He also labels others to blame when it is he himself to blame. Radical Left?  Who are these? What of Radical Right? Whatever happened to the Middle? Where are most citizens right this moment?

My hunch is the Middle. The far fringes of any movement is not the seat of coordination. It is not the actor, either. It is just the loud, noisy rabble.

He who complains the loudest is not the leader. He is the rabble on the fringe. The propagandist in chief.

The humanitarian crisis is about quality of life. Not left or right political ideology.

Yes, there is an immigration policy and procedure crisis. Has been for decades. The congress has sole ownership of this. It must be fixed/replaced with a better model of policy and procedure. This then is handed to the Executive branch for implementation and management. That’s how the system works. It is not run by the president or his minions.

Every president has noted the immigration problem and tried to do something. The current white house occupant claims to be doing the same. He is not. He is muddling it up with no hope of a solution. Just more human suffering.

That’s the crisis. It needs to be fixed. Without the ultimatums and sham leadership for TV cameras.

Would the adults in our government please step forward and do the right thing?

January 23, 2019