My position on immigration

As much as I badmouth America, I have some affection for the place and I'm concerned about it. As well as Europe. I moved to Mexico in July 2019, for several reasons. I had always considered myself an enemy of the state, and I was pretty sure the state felt the same way. I've always been concerned about being assassinated, being who I am, feeling that as a reformer, I represent a threat to damn near everyone important. I've been reading about conspiracies since I was seventeen, and I know quite a bit by now, enough to cause a lot of trouble. Also, although I had a regular nine to five, I was not quite cutting it and my landlady was threatening eviction (she's a basket case). Most of all, I had this powerful gut feeling, looking at the news every day, that something big and unpleasant was coming down the pike. I didn't know it would be worldwide. 

I brought my sidekick Jay, an eccentric artist, and we came down with two suitcases each. Six months later, we were doing a border run to San Diego to renew our tourist visas, and that was when news of covid first started emerging. Six months later, the Mexican government was offering amnesty extensions of six months, so that people didn't have to travel to renew their visas. Then that program ended, and we overstayed our visas by seven or eight months, and then applied for resident visas on a new program. We only had to pay a small fine for overstaying our visas, but the process was a pain, we had to hire someone to help us and we were at immigration at least four times. In all, it cost us something between $1200-$1500 US, I don't remember exactly. 

So, having said that, I am against illegal immigration, period. All nations have laws on immigration, they are necessary, and although violations on a small scale are tolerable, what is currently happening is not motivated by compassion, but rather malice. When the American government is playing up the compassion angle, you know you're being had. 

So my politics are a mixed bag. My parents (mom is still alive) were both lifelong Democrats, that's their principal identity, if you told them to jump off a bridge because that's what Democrats are doing, they would do it. I was putting LSD on paper 50,000 hits at a time before I was twenty, and I've always thought of myself as a revolutionary (even my initials are RPM). That said, a lot of issues have become inverted and I find myself agreeing with conservatives quite a bit. I've never owned one, but I think guns are one of the only things America has going for it, apart from some musicians. No one can call me a fascist, because I am a lone wolf, I don't want a part of any groups. And I'm not really disciplined enough to be a Nazi - I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, you have to admire their discipline.