The leader of the armed militia in New Mexico that has been making citizens' arrests of border jumpers and turning them over to border control agents has just been arrested by the FBI (the same organization that has spent the last two years trying to un-elect Donald Trump.) We now live in a country where those violating our borders are given money, and those defending the borders are given jail time. Clown world means always doing the opposite of whatever is virtuous or logical. Pay the invader, arrest the defender. Spare the murderer from the rope, but terminate the unborn. Imagine a lioness that eats her own cubs while nursing baby gazelles. That is an imaginary analogy, because there are no proper comparisons from nature.
Not only that, but I don't believe there are is anything equivalent from human history, either. There is no shortage of dumb behavior, to be sure. The Trojans wheeled the wooden horse into their walls, which was dumb, if true. The Athenians were dumb to invade Sicily. Napoleon was dumb to invade Russia, which makes Hitler double dumb for repeating the mistake. The Aztecs murdered a quarter of their own children. That seems pretty dumb. And yet, nothing registers even remotely as dumb as paying invaders while arresting patriots. There are scenarios where outsiders were invited by some disgruntled subset of the populace. In late Rome, the rural peasants were so abused that they welcomed Germanic invasions. But that isn't the same dynamic. Had the Roman emperor himself invited the Germanics to invade while punishing anyone who raised a defense, then he'd have been as stupid as we are today. But he didn't do that, because no civilization in history has ever been as stupid as the one we are living in today.
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