Republican presidential candidate proposes border wall with Canada
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/vivek-ramaswamy-canada-border-wall-1.7023226
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/vivek-ramaswamy-canada-border-wall-1.7023226
It creates an "us vs. Them" narrative. Like christians and muslims or arians and jews. Oldest trick in the book to get your people to comply with anything.
It does create that us vs. them mentality which is a falsehood and the diametrical opposite of what christians, jews, or any one is supposed to be all about. We're not above, beyond, or "better than." We're all in the same boat and we're all totally alike (yes, totally). It's time to stop being paranoid and hateful to others.
Oh you're in a boat are ya? Probably one of those librul foreign commies comin over here on your banana boats tryina climb our great trump wall (one of the wonders of the world, everyone's jealous) to spread your ungodly socialist abortion heresy and "education" to our sweet young wives. You won't get away with this! God will protect us from your heretic allah or my name isn't cleetus junior the fifth!
Uhh well I was comin in a boat - maybe I'll turn around and go back after all. I just can't compete with Cleetus the Fifth and his cadre of sweet young wives.
Heavy ties to the construction industry. Like is anyone really surprised Trump, a guy whose entire career is basically building shit and find ways to hustle money out of suppliers and contractors, wanted to build a fuckoff huge wall? He has friends who will scratch his back if he scratches theirs, and it's easy to think other republicans have doners with similar expectations.
Plus it's an low effort attempt to fix something complex with a highly visible solution. "Look we built a wall!"
Simple, easy dumb way to transfer money from public federal funds to private contractors you are leeching off of.
I'm surprised this loser hasn't bleached his skin white and hair blonde yet. He must really hate his heritage and the fact he was born to immigrants to overcompensate so much.
I'm good with this. Especially when the US devolves into full-blown christofascism as seems inevitable at this point.
I took a boat ride in the Detroit River right up next to Windsor. All the people over there with their happy faces and free healthcare, you can't trust them!
If I ever run for office, I’m gonna propose building walls around all Republican states. They can feel nice and safe and free in there and the rest of us can just live our lives.
As someone living in the U.S., yes please, let the floods take me, I am tired of existing.
All this irrational fear and hatred of others - where does it end. Why do we need to "wall off" Canada or any other country? America was never meant to be an isolationist, walled off country - in fact, just the opposite. I can see why some border security is sometimes important - but we do not need more walls, barbed wire, and dobermans at the border waiting to chew up immigrant kids. I say we welcome Canada and we open our doors to Mexico - thousands of people flock there every day across the border to work and to shop - why not just get rid of the walls? We do not need them.
To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism says that their only privilege is the most common one, to be born in the same country. This is the origin of nationalism. Besides, the only ones who can provide an identity to the nation are its enemies. Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia. But the plot must also come from the inside: Jews are usually the best target because they have the advantage of being at the same time inside and outside. In the U.S., a prominent instance of the plot obsession is to be found in Pat Robertson’s The New World Order, but, as we have recently seen, there are many others.
Umberto Eco, "Ur-Fascism"
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Republican lawmakers have been complaining more frequently about the northern border in the context of unauthorized migration, but the numbers remain a tiny portion of the U.S. total.
For simply musing idly about the possibility of a Canada wall, Scott Walker drew merciless ridicule in the 2016 campaign.
Gary Doer wondered how Walker, the governor of a Great Lakes state, Wisconsin, no doubt aware of that body of water, intended to build a wall across the monumental natural boundary.
The New York Times obituary for his failed campaign said his string of gaffes had unnerved supporters, and it specifically cited the Canadian wall comment.
With just a year to the election, Ramaswamy's campaign has already lasted longer than Walker's and is in fourth place in hypothetical national primary polls.
He remains a distant longshot, however, languishing approximately 54 percentage points behind Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner, who skipped Wednesday's debate.
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