(07-18-2019, 03:11 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(07-18-2019, 02:39 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: Except the President didn't say that.  He never said "send them back" he suggested that they "go back" to their country of origin (or heritage), fix the problems there then come back and tell us how to do it.  He didn't say it because of their ethnicity, rather he said it because of what they stand for and believe.  In a nutshell they don't seem to like our country.

So if I understand you, Trump and the other conservatives jumping on proverbial grenades to defend Trump here, espousing favor towards identifying or sympathizing with individuals or entities that show hostility to this country and its values justifiably earns you an invite to leave the country, wholly independent of color, race, citizenship or national origin?

Where, then, are the urgings for those who fly the confederate flag, who support the preservation of confederate monuments, who wear or peddle Confederate insignias to leave the country?

The Confederacy were American citizens who renounced their American citizenship to form an entity their leaders openly admitted were founded upon principles antithetical to the U.S. Constitution, and took up arms against American troops.  If successful, their actions would have led minimally to ELEVEN (11) fewer stars on the flag and a country substantially smaller and size and stature than the one we have now.  As it stands, Confederate actions cost over 600,000 Americans their lives and divides this country to this day.  In the decades al Qaeda has been in existence, they haven't come close to achieving those results against this country.

Yet Trump does not tell them to leave the country (not secede...just leave).  Instead, he welcomes them eagerly among his base, and many of you clamoring for the squad to depart based on anti American sentiment fly the flags and revere the people of the Confederacy.

Why?

All I'm going to say on the subject is this; 

You will never be able to convince people who have no compassion towards those who are not like them of anything they don't understand and don't care to learn. Is it right? No, it's not. 

Trump has done this country no favors with his incessant need to say every single thing that's on his mind and it is dividing this country. I cringe every time he opens his mouth or tweets. He has definitely brought out some behaviors of people in this board that, while not surprising, it's more in-your-face than in times past.

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