I Speak Life!

The title of this blog is interesting, because if you listen to the current Trump administration and many of his supporters from outside the administration, immigrants are coming over the border to infest our country.  Here is a very telling Tweet from our current President sent out yesterday: Trump Tweeted, "Democrats are the problem.  They don't care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our country, like MS-13.  They can't win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters."  Before I break this tweet down, I want to say that as of my writing this blog, there have been 25.9 thousand Retweets of this Trump Tweet and 98.5 thousand people liked the post.  That is greatly concerning to me as an American. Let me unpack Trump's Tweet because it is full of some great material.  First, "Democrats are the problem."  Interesting that Democrats are the problem when they did...

I am going on 42 years old in a couple of months, so when I was raised, a bit of a different approach was used.  In Junior High, they still had the paddle in the office for kids who made bad choices.  Parents and Grandparents alike not only required children to live up to a certain moral standard, but enforced that standard with impunity.  When you did wrong, there were consequences. Then, things changed for some reason.  We seem to live in a world today where parents and school officials may not lay hands on children like they did 'back in the day', and where children must be talked to using kinder and gentler language.  There are schools that have lost control of the children they teach because there doesn't seem to be repercussions for the students acting out and not following standards.  Kids don't care if they are suspended, and they stand up to their parents more than in previous generations because the parents don't reall...