SHAME!

Thanks to the demagogues, primarily Republicans, we have to edit the inscription on the Statue of Liberty as follows:

“Don't give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Don't send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,

I lift light my no lamp beside the golden door.”

The xenophobic demagogues always blame the victims. They turned away the Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. Now they are turning away Muslims fleeing Assad's barrel bombs and the brutality of Daesh (ISIS). The Demagogues (particularly Republicans) are using fear and prejudice to make sure only the right sort of people are allowed to enter this country: No Mexicans or non-Christians or non-Europeans are allowed.

How many times will we Americans fall for this fear mongering? How many times will we forget what makes us great and exceptional? How many times must we apologize for not doing the right thing because we did not have the courage to stand up to the xenophobic demagogues who pose a much greater threat to our values than do the terrorists?  

It is not really the events in France that are the causing this fear mongering; the heinous attacks there are just an excuse.  The real cause of the fear mongering is a moral and intellectual bankruptcy that leaves the demagogues nothing else to sell!