A friend sent this, via Rod Dreher's substack:
"It is not that they love the millions of migrants and illegals more than their own countrymen. They hold us both in contempt: they are content to see the migrants exploited and trafficked, and to see us swamped and erased. Their approach signals their inmost selves, cruelty masquerading as compassion. The desperate girl trafficked from the Darien Gap to Dallas, raped and sold along the way, laboring to pay a fraudulent debt at an off-the-books job, is the apotheosis of progressivism’s achievement."
Wish I'd written that,
LSP
Hey, Rod,
ReplyDeleteRe your first sentence: Don’t flatter yourself. They don’t consider you Their countrymen.
They’ll say “us” and “we” when it comes to “sharing the burden” or “sacrifices must be made”, and they’ll gladly hyphenate themselves into your space to “share” (=take) credit, but when it comes money and power, you’re not Their countryman. You’re not even Their species.
To paraphrase the war criminal William T. Sherman, who would fit right in with those rat-bastidges of today just as he did with their ilk back then, "they are cruelty, and there is no refining it."
ReplyDeleteOn the money...and they 'expect' them to all vote Dem to protect their 'base'...
ReplyDeleteMike -- I think the quote's from one of Rod's commentariat (I wasn't about to breach the "diary's" pay wall...)
ReplyDeleteBut yes.
Wild:
ReplyDeleteSherman, "War is Hell."
Churchill, "Sherman certainly made it so."
It's an ill calculus, NFO, imo.
ReplyDeleteWell said.
ReplyDeleteReally wish I'd written it, LL. Right in the X Ring.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much for that Churchill quote that I'd not heard before, but rest assured I'll put it to good use in the future.
ReplyDeleteWild, I read that when I was around 12 or 13 in Malta (!) of all places. Stuck in my mind ever since. Deploy at will.
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