Peace Corps volunteer gets it: "Trump is right!"

SO...Trump may have used the term "s***hole countries"...and the Democrats and Lying Mainstream Media are going ballistic!

How goofy and lying are the Dems about this? Well first they're screaming in faux-righteous indignation (i.e. virtue-signalling) that it's just AWFUL for our president to even think that some country really is an actual S***hole--let alone have the balls to say it.

So are the Dems claiming all countries are models of smooth function, thanks?  Actually most Dem leaders do seem to be implying that--though carefully avoiding saying it aloud, since it's so obviously a lie.  Consider that when a conservative tried to point out liberal hypocrisy by asking liberal mouthpiece Joan Walsh--on live TV--whether she'd rather live in Norway or Haiti, Walsh claimed "I couldn't say. I've never lived in either one."

"I couldn't say." There ya have it, folks. They know Trump's characterization is totally true, but would rather scream that it's an awful thing to think, because they can beat him up about it.

Makes ya wonder: if you asked a typical lying liberal-Democrat mouthpiece if they'd rather get a massage or jump off a building, would they claim they couldn't say, "because I've never jumped off a building"?  Sounds like it.  Such is their refusal to be shown to be hypocrites even when it's made clear that's what they are.

Well fortunately a few million Americans have actually been to S***hole countries, and they're not under any goofy illusions about how about what s***holes about half the countries of the world are.  One of these Americans is Karin McQuillan, author of the article below (which I've edited slightly).  Ms. McQuillan gets it.

What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right

By Karin McQuillan, Jan 17, 2018

Three weeks after graduating from college I flew to Senegal as a Peace Corps volunteer in a rural town.  A Peace Corps doctor warned us that it was "a fecalized environment."

In plain English: s--- is everywhere.  People defecate anywhere in the open, and the dried feces are blown onto you, your clothes, your food, into the water.  He warned us the first day of training: do not even touch water, since human feces in that region carried parasites that bore through your skin and cause organ failure.

I never would have imagined that a few decades later liberals would be pushing the lie that Western civilization is no better than a third-world country.  Or would teach two generations of our kids that loving your own culture and wanting to preserve it are racist goals.

Last time I was in Paris, near Notre Dame Cathedral I saw an African woman have her child defecate on the sidewalk.  A French police officer, ten steps from her, turned his head away to pretend not to see.

But I have seen.  And I will not turn my head and pretend unpleasant things are not true.

The poor of Senegal--as the poor everywhere--can lead happy, meaningful lives in their own cultures' terms.  But they are not our terms.  And the excrement is the least of it.  Rather, our basic ideas of human relations, right and wrong, are utterly foreign to them--incompatible with their basic beliefs.

I'm hardly a xenophobe.  I loved Senegal, quickly made friends and had an adopted family.  I relished the feeling of the brotherhood of man.  People were open, willing to share their lives and, after they knew you, their innermost thoughts.

But the longer I lived there, the more I realized that the Senegalese are not the same as us.  The truths we hold to be self-evident are not remotely evident to the Senegalese.  How could they be?  Their reality is totally different.  You can't understand anything in Senegal using American terms.

Take something as basic as family.  Family was a few hundred people, extending out to second and third cousins.  Senegalese are Muslim, with up to four wives.  Girls had their clitorises cut off at puberty.  (I witnessed this at what I naively thought was going to be a wonderful coming-of-age ceremony.)   The notion of love, friendship and partnership in marriage were alien to them.  Fidelity was not a thing.  Married women would have sex for a few cents to get cash for the market.

The reality was that every day women were worked half to death.  Wives raised the food and fed their own children, did the heavy labor of walking miles to gather wood for the fire, drew water from the well or public faucet, pounded grain, lived in their own huts, and had conjugal visits from their husbands on a rotating basis with their co-wives.

Their husbands lazed in the shade of the trees.

Yet family was crucial to people there--but in a way much different than for Americans.

The Ten Commandments were not just disobeyed – they were unknown.  The value system was the exact opposite.  The norm was to steal everything possible to give to your own relatives.  There are some Westernized Africans who see the insanity of that, and try to change it.  They fail.

We hear a lot about the kleptocratic elites of Africa, but kleptocracy extends through the whole society.  My town had a medical clinic. donated by international agencies.  The clinic's local aides stole all the  medicine and sold it to the local store.  Which meant sick people who didn't have money weren't treated. 

No one batted an eye at this.  It was normal.

In Senegal corruption was routine at every level.  At the post office the clerk would demand an outrageous price for a stamp.  After paying the bribe, you still didn't know it if it would be mailed or thrown away.  That was normal.

One of my most vivid memories was from the clinic.  One day in the 110-degree heat, an old woman collapsed, just two feet from two Senegalese clinic employees, who were chatting in the shade of a mango tree instead of working.  Instead of helping her they simply turned their heads away and kept talking.  She lay there in the dirt.  Callousness to the sick was normal.

Most Americans think a willingness to help those in distress is a universal human instinct.  Most of us learned it when we were kids, as "the Golden Rule."  But this response is not at all universal.  It only seems natural to us because we live in a Bible-based Judeo-Christian culture.

Similarly, most Americans--though clearly not all--think desire to do productive work--the so-called work ethic--is universal.  It's not.  My town in Senegal was full of young men who did nothing.  There was no private enterprise, so no jobs except for the rare government job for the connected.   Private business wasn't illegal, just impossible because of the nightmarish third-world bureaucratic kleptocracy. 

Private businesses are also made impossible because of the Senegalese concept of taking care of everyone in the extended family--scores or even hundreds of relatives.  If a Senegalese wanted to run a little store he'd go to another country, because if you started a business locally your friends and relatives would ask you for stuff for free, and you couldn't say no because in Senegal one isn't allowed to be a selfish individual and say no to relatives.  End of your business.

The result is that everyone has nothing.  All the little stores in Senegal were owned by Mauritanians.

The more I worked there and visited government officials doing absolutely nothing, the more I realized that no one in Senegal had any idea that a job means work.  To them a job was something given to you by a relative.   It was the place where you could steal everything, to give to your family.

I couldn't wait to get home.  So why would I want to bring Africa here?  Non-Westerners do not magically become American by arriving on our shores with a visa.

The greatest gift of my experience with the Peace Corps is that ever since then I've treasured America and our way of life more than ever.  I learned that if we want our culture and our country to survive, we must defend both, and pass on the American heritage to the next generation.

African problems are made worse by our aid efforts. Senegal has many smart, capable people.  If their problems are ever to be solved it will have to be done by them, not us.  If they are ever to improve it must be on their terms, not ours. 

The problems of Senegal and a hundred similar countries will not be solved by importing Africans to the U.S.

Democrats constantly demand that we must allow third-world immigrants here the insane (to us) privilege called "chain migration"--the right to bring dozens of their relatives to the U.S.  This means that legalizing a million DACA illegals imported by Obama will end up adding ten or 15 times that many third-world immigrants over time.

That result is absolutely fine with the Democrats, who tell us we must end America as a white, Western, Judeo-Christian, capitalist nation to prove we are not racist.  I don't need to prove a thing.

Leftists want open borders because they resent whites, resent Western achievements, hate free markets and capitalism and America.  They want to destroy America as we know it. As President Trump asked, why would we do that?

It doesn't seem unreasonable to think that we have the right to choose what kind of country America will be.  I'm not willing to let Democrats and their immigrants turn America into Senegal.

Karin has lived in a s***hole country, and she gets it.