Not just Noo Yawk feels this way |
Trump’s
rhetoric from late last week further indicated his nonsensical beliefs that these
non-Anglo, non-U.S.-born people are the dregs of humanity.
SO
HE’S GOING to punish those of us who refuse to go along with his xenophobic-motivated
immigration policies by flooding us with foreigners. That’ll show us, he likely
thinks!
The
problem with such a line of reasoning is that many of those municipalities
already are foreigner-friendly, and the existence of those ethnic enclaves
within the cities is a significant part of their character.
If
anything, they make the municipalities places where upper-scale people might themselves
want to locate. Even if they don’t live in the same neighborhoods right next to
each other, they give the upper-scale individuals the ability to say they live
in varied communities.
Compared
to some of those rural places that are so overwhelmingly white and un-ethnic
that they appear to be unfriendly to anyone who didn’t actually grow up there –
and also often take on such a character that many of their younger, more-motivated
residents feel the need to go away to college and find someplace else to live
their adult lives.
I
DON’T DOUBT that the people living in the rural, white parts of the country
would find Trump’s nonsense-talk all the more appealing because it would
reinforce their thoughts that they’re the only people who ought to matter.
But
if it really happened, it would also further enhance the notion that these
rural communities would become further isolated from the masses who are the real
tone of our society.
If
Trump really were to try to enact his suggestion, he’d be doing so much
long-term damage to the areas where the people who like the Age of Trump we’re
now in. The harm would be so long-lasting and permanent.
Would plans actually hurt rural Illinois political interests? |
PERSONALLY,
I’D THINK the idea would be reprehensible to Illinois politicos of the Republican
persuasion – because adding to the Chicago population would do little more than
further enhance the urban leanings that already work to the detriment of rural
Illinois.
As
in the one that ensures Illinois’ congressional delegation is 13 Democrats and
five Republicans. With the likelihood that the next reapportionment of Congressional
districts after 2020 will cost Illinois a seat, you have to wonder if those
rural, isolationist-minded people realize that seat likely will come from their
portion of the state.
Then
again, there’s no accounting for sense when it comes to politicos.
Take
the measure now pending in the Illinois General Assembly, where state Rep. C.D.
Davidsmeyer, R-Jacksonville, wants his colleagues to pass a resolution that urges
Congress to break Chicago away from Illinois.
Trump and Davidsmeyer (below) … |
HE
TOLD THE State Journal-Register newspaper of Springfield that rural people are
losing their chances to make Illinois more like rural Missouri or Indiana because
Chicago, by its very nature, is in competition with places like New York, San
Francisco and Los Angeles.
I’ll
agree that people have a right to live off in isolation, if that’s really all
they want out of life, even though I can’t comprehend why they’d want to.
… both don't comprehend consequences |
But
I definitely don’t think those people have a right to dictate to tell the rest
of us we have to live like them.
So
if Trump thinks he’s punishing places like Chicago, I’d say we’ll take these
newcomers – who would not only boost the city’s population count to our
political advantage, it would also give us a slew of newcomers eager to work hard
for better lives – unlike those who want to live in isolation and on the
decline.
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