Is the United States a Banana Republic?

We have been told that the United States is turning into a nation like Venezuela with huge problems, including the Biden’s Administration’s handling of the border. But the Trump border policy was just an extension of what was the most antisemitic legislation passed in the United States. The immigration law passed in 1924 had attached to it statements that I learned about that were antisemitic and that legislation kept 3 million Jews from coming here. My source of information is not only what we learned in school which was that around 1920 immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe were kept out, but also even Benjamin Netanyahu knew from his father’s work before 1940 that an appeal was made for 3 million Jews to flee for their lives, and they were prevented from coming to the United States.

And now that legislation and its cousins is keeping out immigrants including those seeking asylum. And now we can turn to Venezuela.

It has been reported that there is no evidence that Maduro has won the election in Venezuela and that is making huge news.

It also so happens that there is no evidence that Trump won the Election of 2020.

It made me think of a song about bananas as I thought about writing. It was a great entertainer named Jimmy Durante who I must have watched 100 times on television, and he was known for singing

Yes, we have no bananas

We have no bananas today

I could tell Jimmy right now this

Yes, we have bananas

And that we have Banana Republicans