Seriously?

To begin, I am an apolitical person. I don’t give a rodent’s posterior what parenthesized capital letter appears after the name of an officeholder or candidate. I prefer to evaluate candidates and ideas according to their respective pros and cons, and I vote that way. Apparently that places me in the minority of contemporary society.

Second, I am a devout student of history. For that reason, I can tell you that the Great Wall of China is at least 5,500 miles long and was meant to keep invading Mongols out of China. It didn’t work.

Based on historical precedent and a proposed price tag of $40 billion of taxpayer money, I firmly believe that any officeholder or candidate favoring a wall on the southern border of the United States should be recalled or rejected from public office. That same fate should befall leaders who fail to stand up to the paranoid bullies who are planning such a folly, especially the current U.S. Senate majority leader and the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. For lack of backbone, they both deserve to be electoral collateral damage. To totally ensure protection against illegal immigration, why not build such a wall to cover the 2,500 miles of mostly wilderness border between the United States and Canada?

Have we reached the point where party affiliation is all that matters, and common sense no longer applies? Who will stand up against this folly?

Michael Schoepf

Albert Lea