There’s no question that illegal immigration is a major headache in America, a headache of migraine proportions. Even though liberals choose to pretend that the problem exists only in the minds of conservative racists, even they know that race has nothing to do with it. If there were 15 or 20 million Scandinavians “living in the shadows,” as they like to say, conservatives would be equally resentful that of all the nations in the world, ours was the only one whose sovereignty could be ignored with impunity. Of course it would also mean that there was nobody left in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

To the extent that the resentment is in any way racial, it’s not because Americans hate Hispanics, but because so many of them arrive without marketable skills, which means that a large number of them will be dependent on their reluctant hosts to provide them with food, shelter, clothing, health care and, inevitably, penal incarceration.

Which brings us to Donald Trump, who has based much of his campaign on the harsh measures he is prepared to impose on illegal immigrants, insisting that he will not only deport every single one of them, but will build a wall and send the bill to Mexico.

If I seem skeptical, it’s not because I hate him or love Cruz, but because here on the planet Reality, I know flapdoodle when I hear it. A lot of Republicans regard Mr. Trump as a breath of fresh air, a man who says what he means and means what he says. I might join their ranks if he didn’t keep denying he said what I heard him say the day before. Most recently, he claimed to be in favor of raising the minimum wage. The next day, he changed his mind.

For my part, it would also help if he didn’t keep trying to pass himself off as a political outsider. This is a guy who started testing the presidential waters over 30 years ago, and yet, until 2015, he never did so as a registered Republican.

Even though he never got around to running, he has been deeply involved in the political scene for decades, funding any number of campaigns, most of them on behalf of people like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Charles Schumer and even Hillary Clinton.

For some reason, a lot of Republicans are more than willing to give him a pass, pointing out on his behalf that it was the price of doing business. These are the same people who never turn a blind eye to those they regard as RINOs, even though being a moderate on some issues is often the price of doing business in Washington or of even getting elected in most states.

Even now that he has clinched the GOP nomination, Trump continues to support Planned Parenthood and to flay Republican legislators in North Carolina for passing a law requiring trans-genders to use the bathroom facilities designated by Mother Nature.

Frankly, I have no idea why so many Republicans have fallen prey to the Pied Piper of Manhattan or why they placed so much stock in the primaries in places like New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Vermont. Those are not states that any Republican is going to carry in November. But I guess unless God or the FBI intervenes, we are going to see Trump and Clinton duke it out in six months. It’s hard to handicap the fight because Trump has the weight, height and reach advantage, but she fights dirty.

As for booting out millions of illegal aliens, even Trump understands that the law requires that each of the individuals have a legal hearing to determine his or her official status. However, the one way to get a wall built is to threaten to skip the hearings and make it appear we are loading the scofflaws onto trucks and railroad cars heading south. Mexico, facing the unwelcome return of all those people, would not only pay for the wall, they’d have the damn thing built in a week. What’s more, they’d erect guard towers every few hundred yards and they’d mine the surrounding area to make certain that nobody was trying to tunnel their way back home.

One of the sillier things that liberals say when they’re pleading on behalf of illegal aliens is that we should never even consider separating families. I’m all for keeping families intact, but if it mattered as much to the parents as it does to me, why didn’t they stay home in the first place and take care of their kids?

Although I question Trump’s qualifications to run as a Republican, let alone a conservative, he’s Mount Rushmore-like when compared to Hillary Clinton’s qualifications to run as a non-felon. Her resume includes lying about four dead Americans in Benghazi; selling us out to Russia; capitulation to Iran; and a personal server that served mainly to conceal the fact that she and Bill were continuing to harvest millions of dollars from foreign influence-buyers while she served as Secretary of State.

Next, lest we leap to the conclusion that all the pointy-headed billionaires are on the Left, Charles Koch mused during a televised interview, prior to Trump’s triumph, that Mrs. Clinton just might make a better president than anyone the GOP could possibly offer. It raises the question whether there are any billionaires in America who don’t have shit for brains.

In case you missed it, a group of middle schoolers were shut down at the 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero for daring to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” I can’t help wondering if a group of Muslims had shown up to sing of their devotion to Allah whether they would have been treated so harshly.

In Virginia, in order to help Hillary Clinton carry the state in November, Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed a piece of legislation that will enable 200,000 ex-jail birds to vote for her. While one hopes that Virginia’s Supreme Court will over-rule him, my question is: Why isn’t he already facing impeachment? Surely something needs to be done to make certain that the Clintons’ former bag man isn’t allowed to have 200,000 rapists, robbers and killers, cancel out the votes of 200,000 honest, hard-working, tax-paying, Virginians.

Sometimes my wife gets on my case because she thinks I am too pessimistic about America’s future. But, here on the planet Reality, we can’t ignore the facts, and what the facts disclose is that the battle for America favors the other side. Sad to say, but what other conclusion can you come to when when you remove the rose-colored blinders? You need only check out the education system, the mass media, our pop culture and, perhaps worst of all, demographics, which constitutes a nation-wide time bomb, to find yourself face-to-face with the Apocalypse.

The result of what has transpired over the past few decades is that we have a near-majority of what Rush Limbaugh refers to as low-information voters. It’s because there are so many of them that Barack Obama and his flying monkeys in Congress can get away with passing off millions of young able-bodied Islamic males as “widows and five-year-old orphans.”

Aside from pop-ups and all those ads for “male enhancers” and come-ons from allegedly over-sexed women who are apparently dying to get it on with a short, bald 76-year-old, the email I hate the most are chain-letters insisting I pass along some uplifting message to 20 of my closest friends. For one thing, I very much prefer sending out my own messages.

For another, I don’t have 20 friends and I really don’t appreciate being reminded of that fact.