{"id":398576,"date":"2019-03-08T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-and-who-is-it-good-for\/"},"modified":"2019-03-08T13:00:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T12:00:20","slug":"what-and-who-is-it-good-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-and-who-is-it-good-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What and Who is it Good For?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photograph Source U.S. Customs and Border Protection<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Robert Frost was clearly on to something when he declared a liberal to be a \u201cman\u201d (sic) too broadminded to take his own side in an argument.\u201d\u00a0 There is much to be said too for \u201cgood fences make good neighbors,\u201d a wise, avuncular pronouncement, not at all mean-spirited.<\/p>\n

Those words no longer seem quite so benign after Donald Trump and his wall, the one that was supposed to span the entire southern border and for which Mexico would pay.\u00a0 \u00a0Trump\u2019s wall is a kind of fence, and it is hard to see how it is good for anything, much less for making good neighbors.<\/p>\n

Could it be that, on border security, Frost, a hard-nosed, cantankerous poet, a political ally of Henry Wallace and John Kennedy, harbored sentiments similar to Donald Trump\u2019s?<\/p>\n

I hope not. \u00a0It would be disheartening to think that a major American poet and \u201ca racist, a conman, and a cheat,\u201d a major embarrassment to the human race, would have anything of importance in common.<\/p>\n

In more normal times, this would go without saying.\u00a0 But, of course, these are not normal times.\u00a0 \u00a0This isn\u2019t entirely Individual Number One\u2019s fault.\u00a0 But, for the world\u2019s current state of befuddlement, no one is more culpable.<\/p>\n

If we want to Make America Great Again \u2013 not in Trump\u2019s sense, but according to what those words actually mean \u2013 then, insofar as the facts allow, we should honor, not demean, the giants of American letters.<\/p>\n

And if we want to stop…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photograph Source U.S. Customs and Border Protection Robert Frost was clearly on to something when he declared a liberal to be a \u201cman\u201d (sic) too broadminded to take his own side in an argument.\u201d\u00a0 There is much to be said too for \u201cgood fences make good neighbors,\u201d a wise, avuncular pronouncement, not at all mean-spirited. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}