Robert C. Koehler: Creating a cooperative world?
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
May 25, 2023
4 minutes
“Go back to where you came from.”
This is basic American politics – what I might call spiritual ignorance: a dismissal of refugees fleeing war, famine and poverty as global sludge, clogging up our way of life. So many media stories about the border – our border – begin with an unquestioned presumption. These aren’t individual humans fleeing hell and trying to reclaim their lives. They exist only en masse – basically, in the millions.
And they’re going to be nothing but trouble for us. Either they want to work for a living and, thus, claim American jobs, or
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