Good pots...l  love you frends...

it's crazy what's happening in the US. simply crazy.

I'll have to come back to this, for some reason, DLive isn't loading for me today.

You are absolutely right to raise this issue. We live in a frightening time. 

I don't believe that we are fitted with a left or a right conscience. On such fundamental things as children, a healthy society ought to easily cut through partisan distractions and the various camps citizens may occupy on most issues.  What conditions lead to a blurring of our sense of right and wrong though? Despair, greed, competition, selfishness, a general climate of fear, disregard for law?

Es triste y lamentable lo que está sucediendo en Estados Unidos, a esos niños  se les crea un trauma.

The UK is on the brink of civil war right now, so much division and hatred yet people cannot see how they are being played by the age old 'dicide  and rule' rhetoric.

One cannot *possibly* evaluate any particular such issue without a thorough understanding of the many others that are connected. It's like trying to see what picture a puzzle makes when you only have a handful of pieces.

Why are people so concerned about immigration? 

* Because those people will take off-the-books work and not "contribute" via taxes? 
>**Yeah, well, taxation is theft.**

* Because their presence makes it harder for you to get a job? 
>**Tough luck, that's the free market; you don't have a *right* to a job.**

* Because they will commit crime?
>**Some will and some won't, so it's immoral to address this issue with broad-stroke non-solutions that affect the innocent.**

* Because they infiltrate your neighborhood with their culture and fuck up your comfortable little nest? 
>**Too bad, that's life, things change. It's not immoral to move into a neighborhood en masse, and nobody owns the continent, so there's no right of defense against trespass at play.**

* Because they take advantage of government programs like welfare?
>**Government is slavery; how about addressing that little tidbit and thus cutting off the root of the problem instead of worrying about how the leaves are blowing?**

**Principles** - that's what's missing. The *deliberate dumbing down* is in full effect, and anyone up in arms about immigration needs to go back to Philosophy 101 and brush up on their Plato. We're so far from being mature rational adults it would be laughable if it weren't so tangibly perilous.

---"Do you ever think about what it means to call any individual you disagree with "the left" or "the right"?"---

Well, hell yes I do. If the right/left is a spectrum, and social is on the left and individualism is on the right, social constructs like nation state, immigration, war, and national borders are all social constructs of the left.

The welfare state, and basket of 'social free goodies' plus higher minimum wage are leftist constructs driving people to enter foreign nations.(not to even mention war for a moment)

If I am disagreeing with them they are typically, by this metric, on the left.

Sorry I could not watch Dlive. It is not working for me again! **:{** There are no winners in this situation. Two wrongs have never made a right...

I was able to listen to it. Kafka, YOU'RE ON FIRE! 

I think I fell into that trap a bit. I love how you end your video with "Peace." lol

Yeah, I think the issue also is that the some parents are using their kids as leverage to cross the border, knowing full well what will happen, and these innocent kids are being used.