With the exception of my Aunt Brenda, who is a conservative Democrat in the mold of those who were around before the liberals took over as the DNC’s spokespersons(Hah! A PC term!) and still retains her logic, reason and patriotic attitude, the remaining members of my family are liberals(not me!).

In an email the other day, a cousin of mine who is an attorney and pretty far to the left, evidently, told me he believes we should open our borders to any and all immigrants, legality apparently notwithstanding, who wish to come into the United States. He cited the fact that immigrants have always been dimly viewed for whatever reason, referring to those who came here long ago. My reply was along the lines of what follows herein –

I suppose my entire reply was a rant, telling him that the single most significant reason the liberals’ control of the Democratic party has injured it is that liberals tend to gravitate toward the Utopian rather than the real.

Sure, it would be great if we could accept everyone who wants to move here, bring ‘em on in!

But, I asked, what happens when we’ve got everyone on earth who wants to live in the USA here, tens of millions of immigrants who are having a rough time where they are(in the days to which he refers, the combined totals of members of each ethnic group immigrating were a mere fraction of that which we are looking at today, and most entered the U.S. with some semblance of legality)? What about the unemployables and the tens of millions of immigrants whose very presence exceeds available jobs? You know, the ones whose only options will be to get on welfare or starve? What about health care? What about housing?

Liberals don’t think about what happens down the road, they only consider the Utopian principles of the now.

“This is nice, so it must be done…”

In order to accommodate the massive immigration these liberals think is acceptable, we would have to readust our economy, big time. Not the least of our adjustments would be off-setting healthcare, after the HMOs became unprofitable, by allowing the government to go with socialized medicine, setting up still another federal bureaucracy(we all know how screwed up that would be in terms of mismanagement, big gubmint having already established a track record thereabouts) and transforming our successful capitalist republic into the same kind of majorly overtaxed, 10+ % unemployed, failing socialist quagmire they’re experiencing in the Euro countries.

I can’t, having known my cousin since exactly ten years after I was born, even begin to think that he’s the Marxist most other true-believing liberals are at heart, or simply someone who hates America and all it stands for(tell me it ain’t so!), a member of the “blame America first” system of belief. Here, his being misguided would be highly preferable to my peace of mind.

Of course, the creation of the kind of mess open borders would bring in would mean, as do all socioeconomic messes, more work for lawyers, so perhaps he’s thinking like most attorneys do — the hell with the wellbeing of the country, we must look to our own employment security…

What do you call a busload of lawyers with one empty seat…?

In the open border scenario, taxes would more than double what we pay here and unemployment would become the same nasty joke it is in socialist countries like France. Ouch!

And our own homegrown leftists either don’t think about that or simply ignore the concept.

Which sums up liberal doctrine: Mares-eat-oats-and -does-eat-oats, in an ideal world….

They either don’t consider the consequences of their Utopian efforts due to a “we need it now(forsaking any thought as to long term penalties for what we do)” or they simply couldn’t care less. In my cousin’s case, I like to believe that it is the former case, that it’s his optimistic instincts kicking in rather than any sense of reality. What a hard call that must be, though, either way — “feel-good vs reality”.

Hmm, tough.

I truly don’t want to believe that he may be a member of the mainstream cult of liberals that feel our form of government is obsolete and must, at all costs, be replaced with socialism if not all-out Marxism.

I mean… I mean, WTF!?