Don't like it here? Well, neither do I sometimes.
I'd rather live in a place with universal health care where livable wages were a priority.
Where there was more, rather than less, diversity.
Where racism, homophobia, misogyny and all those other dirty souvenirs of our collective past had been corralled, isolated and neutralized.
Where stewardship of our fragile planet and its resources had top priority.
Where people of faith lived their faith with no thought of imposing it.
But go back? This is where we come from now. And where would we go? For many recent immigrants it would be to places of terror, death, extreme poverty.
Each immigrant who arrives, including the undocumented, is following the American dream.
So let's talk about that dream, abandon the nonsensical idea that the "good old days" are a goal worthy of aspiring to or that the past was somehow golden --- and get to work, together.
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