Subject: Re: Watching Speech now

However much we might "need" to reach a consensus, it may simply be that there is no position that the various stakeholders can mutually agree to.

Both sides have become hardened in their position, instead of seeking a compromise. Trump is reaping the crop Fox Noise and luminaries like Tom Tancredo nurtured for years, which is based on racism. Bush 43 proposed a "guest worker" program, which treated the guest workers more like indentured servants. It was quickly shot down, probably because it still allowed brown people into the country.

Trump seems to have expanded beyond racism, to toxic xenophobia, with policies like the proposal I posted about to debank everyone who is not a citizen.

Steve