The Immigrants Reviled By Americans Love Their Children More Than We Love Ours
We talk a big game and, as a society and often as individuals, we fail our children at every turn.
They walk thousands of miles with small children. They are fleeing poverty or violence—sometimes both. They are looking for a better life, to ensure that their children live lives more fully than their parents.
This is what Americans think and claim they want for their children. But their behavior shows they lack (for now) the courage and imagination and willpower to actually care for their children.
Instead of opposing the evil that threatens their families, Americans generally embrace it. Compared to their counterparts fleeing trouble and poverty in Central and South America, Americans behave mostly like barbarians and cowards.
Cooperating With Evil
It’s not that Americans are bad people. They aren’t. They can be kind and generous and loving. But they are obedient and unimaginative. Perhaps that’s because they are exhausted from work. And because they grew up in a society that told them what to think (and what not to think) and it’s too difficult to come up with an alternative.
Hey, I’m not condemning. For most of my life, I was one of them.
