America's Self-Imposed Protective Custody

What a national border wall actually does is put America into protective custody, a status into which no one would normally enter into voluntarily. It seems drastic and wasteful. For a country that is supposed to be a land of freedom we are increasingly becoming a land of seclusion and isolation.

The words of Germaine Greer come to mind: "Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release." We are becoming a society in which a self-imposed prison is being substituted for liberty. We are separating ourselves from the rest of the world, driven by threats blown way out of proportion.

H.L. Mencken told us "the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed--and hence clamorous to be led to safety--by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."