Further Examining the Border Crisis

The country appears to be very divided right now. The left says that the president cannot get anything done because the right keeps stonewalling him. The right is pissed off because they feel the president is abusing his executive powers and refusing to work with them. It's clear that starting with Bush the executive branch has become too powerful. Personally I think it's grown worse under the Obama administration. But it in the case of the border crisis, this petty arguing and political stalemate is helping who..?

The president has proposed a bill to secure the border and enact a pathway to citizenship law, which would make it take 10 years before becoming a citizen. The Republicans apparently do not want to vote on it because they want to secure the border first. Whether or not it's more beneficial to deal with these issues separately, rather than at once, it is much worse to do nothing and watch the country burn. This is the problem with the party system in America. They're so hypocritical it is astounding. And yes, they are both guilty of executive over-reach, but that does not mean we should say 'well they did it too so it's okay'. In any case, I want to fire them all. 

If there is a bigger picture here, and corporations are profiting off of this mayhem as I suggested, than maybe that would explain why these too parties cannot put their own pride aside and act. I mean, would you really be so surprised if lobbyists were intentionally bribing these guys to manipulate a situation for their own benefit? It's not like that hasn't happened before...

I can only hope that America will think back 16 years rather than just 8 before they vote in 2016. The people feel betrayed by the government for a reason. For me, it's because I voted for Obama is '08 because he promised to close gitmo, stop federal pot raids, increase transparency in government, protect the open internet, end the war (and not start multiple covert wars after...), and even repeal the patriot act. Instead, he renewed it, started all sorts of little wars, let the NSA run wild (don't tell me he didn't know, the executive branch has so much authority there's no way he was not involved) and gitmo is still open.

Not that the Republicans are any better. They created this situation, Obama campaigned on ending it, and then whether or not he's playing along with them or really cannot get anything done because of bi-partisan stubbornness, it really doesn't matter. The point is both these parties suck.