Reply #84: Once upon a time

[Coastie for Truth]

in the days before Attorney General Palmer (and his friend Director Hoover) the United States was like that.

Once upon a time, when my grand parents were kids--

The New Colussus

"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame,
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Then there was the "National Origins Immigration Act of 1929" and Breckenridge Long, and Charles "Lucky Lindy" Lindberg, and Senator Prescott Bush, and the Ship of Fools, the Steam Ship St. Louis.

Don't know about the real world. But, in an ideal world, your idea would very good. Maybe Jimmie Carter and Rev. Jim Wallis, and Rev. Robin Meyers, and Rabbi Michael Lerner, and Rev Jesse Jackson can work on it.

(Please - I am not being facetious - I am a Faith Based Progressive- and proud of it.)