In Reply to: What open borders are you talking about? What is too much posted by azbruin on July 13, 2025 at 15:23:05
I live in an agricultural area. I see workers in the fields and orchards rain or shine. One summer when I was in college I worked on a canning crew at a wholesale plant nursery. It was hard hot work and after a couple of weeks I asked for a transfer back to their retail outlet.
In places like the San Joaquin Valley, agricultural work takes environmental stamina and dexterity. Stone fruit crops, like peaches, nectarines and plums, have to be picked one at a time at piecemeal rates under the blazing sun. More boxes filled, more money earned.
If LBTGQ rights are to expand, then they should grow organically. Some parts of the country are more receptive, while in others people are appalled. Sometimes advocates for "rights" push to hard and to fast and the result is blowback. People with no opinion form an opinion and those at the edges on both sides dig in for a battle.
As to DEI, look around. We've been moving towards those goals for years, but once the hard core committed on both sides got into it with each other, then it all broke down. If DEI is looked at as a push comes to shove issue, then progress becomes more difficult. I really don't care how many statues of confederate generals are in parks in the South, or military bases named after them. I do care when people of all colors and persuasions are not afforded the opportunity to move among us without fear or shame.