{"id":11630,"date":"2019-01-23T12:50:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T16:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=11630"},"modified":"2019-01-23T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T16:53:00","slug":"how-the-wall-became-americas-dividing-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/how-the-wall-became-americas-dividing-line\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Wall Became America&#8217;s Dividing Line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The wall debate defines what makes us Americans. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/border_wall-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/border_wall-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/border_wall-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/border_wall-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/border_wall.jpg 1608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>FrontPage Mag<\/strong>, by Daniel Greenfield &#8212; 1\/23\/2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>America is full of visible and invisible walls. In the first half  of the last century, our politics had been dedicated to tearing down the  walls between classes, races and genders. And then in the second half  of the century, radicals terrified of what that meant for their plans,  began building them up again while adding new divisions until every  city, workplace and even family is divided by many invisible walls.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Walls represent divisions. Whether you support or oppose a particular  wall depends on whether you believe a division is legally, morally or  philosophically legitimate. The walls that the radicals want to tear  down are the walls distinguishing and defining concepts that they don\u2019t  believe in, such as nations and genders, while building walls of  segregation to separate races and classes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>When Speaker Pelosi  calls a border wall immoral, it\u2019s not because she believes that  physical structures of steel and stone are immoral, but that the concept  that a wall protects, that of the nation and its citizenry, is immoral  to the radical mind.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>That&#8217;s an important debate worth having  because the rejection of America as a distinct nation, as opposed to a  distinct idea, gets at the heart of the opposition to so much of Trump&#8217;s  agenda from both parties.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Unfortunately neither Pelosi nor  her media allies are willing to honestly put forward their views and  debate them. Instead they make false claims of supporting border  security in principle, while opposing it at every turn in practice.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>&#8230; the wall became the country\u2019s dividing line. It is a line that not only  divides borders, but concepts. It separates truth from lies and fact  from fiction. It embodies the larger struggle not only over what legally  makes one an American, but what morally makes one an American. &nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>(bold and font size emphasis added)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image, links and comments at:<\/strong>            <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/272624\/how-wall-became-americas-dividing-line-daniel-greenfield\">https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/272624\/how-wall-became-americas-dividing-line-daniel-greenfield<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wall debate defines what makes us Americans. FrontPage Mag, by Daniel Greenfield &#8212; 1\/23\/2019 Excerpts: America is full of visible and invisible walls. In the first half of the last century, our politics had been dedicated to tearing down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/how-the-wall-became-americas-dividing-line\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11633,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11630\/revisions\/11633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}