In the face of this rabid anti-immigrant xenophobia, the Democrats typically counter by saying the Republican policies are cruel, but they do not give a clear endorsement for immigration itself and often end up supporting anti-immigrant policies. Republicans consistently run on an anti-immigrant platform that demonizes immigrants and immigration as bad for America, even though this is demonstrably false. In spite of these numerous benefits, Democrats never seem to fully embrace immigration. The set of policies that achieve these benefits is a more liberalized immigration regime, i.e., creating more pathways for people to legally immigrate to the U.S. You would think that any type of policy that could achieve this many benefits would be an easy sell, and any politician running on a policy platform with these benefits would be very successful. soft power, enhance human rights by helping people in need, and reunite families? culturally and linguistically, subsidize social programs, help improve the U.S. If you were a politician, and you wanted to persuade the American people to support a particular set of policies, wouldn’t you want to advocate for a set of policies that will benefit the economy, create jobs, enrich the U.S. It’s about a world ravaged by humanity (using nukes, as a matter of fact) and, so many years later, still barely in recovery mode. Miller,Jr.’s sci-fi classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, last visited in 1961 at age 17. As a matter of fact, I had only recently finished rereading Walter M. Somehow - just a guess - that afternoon I might have become a character in a science-fiction novel. My best hunch now, as I try to put recent events in perspective, is that I wasn’t in life as I’d previously known it. The strangeness of it all (and perhaps my age) might have left me just a bit confused. There was no sun, just a strange orange haze of a kind I had never seen before as I walked the streets of that world (well-masked) on my way to a doctor’s appointment. And take my word for it, it was eerie as hell. You know, the red planet, or rather - so it seemed to me - the orange plane t. I mention that only because last week, at nearly 79, I managed to visit Mars for the first time.

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