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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB
I don't see it. We don't want Mexico.
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Not as it presently exists, no.
But at SOME point someone is gonna have to roust the cartels and give those people such "luxuries" as flushing toilets and clean drinking water. Things can't stay the way they are forever.
I think what it will come down to is less having to do with them having anything of value to us specifically, and more with Us being sick and tired of such embarrassment as what goes on down there taking place in essentially our own backyard. Like taking it upon yourself to mow your neighbor's lawn when they're out of town, throwing out all the beer cans and empty bottles and such; they didn't ask you to do it, and there's no real benefit to you, but it's overgrown and unkempt and it just makes everyone on the street look bad by association, so you just do what needs to be done since they can't be bothered to care.
I mean think about it; you've got L.A., which despite being a cesspool of another kind is still more or less the shining beacon for 21st-century living. And then just a few hours south, you've got a country full of people where tons of them don't even have stable electricity or running water. That's a goddamn joke, an embarrassment, and it shouldn't be that way.
And it's very easily fixable. Somebody just has to say "Enough is Enough" and actually commit to fixing it. BUT... we're in bed with the drug barons, so we continue to look the other way because Status Quo makes the most people rich. If we actually wanted it fixed, it'd be fixed.
One day. Not tomorrow, but eventually.