When you consider the respective positions of the opposing parties on the the current fight over whether or not to fund border security, one is forced to consider whether the two sides are viewing the same reality.  The President has declared a humanitarian crisis on the border, and is seeking $5 billion, which amounts to about one one thousandth of the federal budget, to build what is alternatively called a wall or barrier, which is alternatively constructed of concrete and/or steel.  The Democrats have flatly declared that no crisis exists.   The Department of Homeland Security has reported that illegal border crossings tripled from 2017 to 2018.  The President has told us that 60,000 children illegally entered the U.S. in the last two months, and we can’t handle them.  Democrats swear that illegal border crossings are down, so there is no problem.  Clearly, something is amiss.  Either one side is blatantly lying, or the two factions are experiencing two starkly different realities.  Alternative realities.  Physicists theorize that alternative universes may actually exist.  It all has to do with string theory and the peculiar actions and reactions of obscure subatomic particles, you know, all the stuff you can’t understand that the nerds on The Big Bang Theory always talk about.   A noted physicist has explained, “There are a couple of multiverses that come out of our study of string theory that create gigantic surfaces in space.  And what that means, within string theory, is that we may be living on one of those gigantic surfaces, and there can be other surfaces floating out there in space.”  You got that?  What that mess means is that it’s possible that there could be alternative, parallel universes in which there exist different realities.  In other words, Trump may be living in one universe, in which untold thousands of illegal aliens are storming our border, while in the Democrat universe, “all is well, remain calm.”  If you think that’s outlandish, consider this – CNBC, allegedly a news outlet, has actually “reported” that there are Democrats running around loose who believe that Donald Trump isn’t really the President, but that he’s just leaked into our world from an alternative universe.  No, I’m not making this up.  In February of 2017, CNBC reported, “There’s a theory going around online that CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) experiments have caused the world to shift into an alternate reality where Donald Trump has become president.   Trump theorists cite “the Mandela effect,” a phenomenon that occurs when large groups of people believe something happened even though evidence shows it isn’t true.  Some think more of these incidents have occurred since CERN was established, and suggest that its particle physics experiments are causing the world to shift into parallel universes.  People are recalling the original reality, which is why there is divergent thought according to the believers.  In Trump’s case, conspiracy theorists have cited “evidence” like his quote on terrorist attacks on Sweden and assertions that Muslims were cheering in the streets after 9/11, as memories which they believe stem from a parallel universe Trump used to reside in.”  As crazy as this sounds, it does explain how two opposing parties can view the same events and come to two diametrically opposed conclusions.  If the subatomic particles can create two alternative realities, then perhaps Trump and the Democrats are just viewing the respective realities that exist in their respective universes.  In Democrat land, there is no caravan, and illegal immigration is not a problem on the southern border.  Il Duce Obama, and Chuck and Nancy have told us just that, so it must be true.  In the Trump universe, there is a rogue caravan (which was formerly known as a mob), which broke down fences to enter Mexico, marched all the way to the U.S. border, and stormed the barricades trying to break in.  Those pesky subatomic particles must be creating alternative universes on TV too, because on CNN we’re told the idea of an immigration crisis was manufactured by the President (if he actually is the President), yet, on Fox News, we regularly see images like these –

Democrats wouldn’t lie, so this must be a parallel universe, right?  And the parallel universe must extend over the border into Mexico too, because officials in Tijuana are begging the U.S. for help with the thousands of illegals who they perceive to be fouling the streets of that city; illegals who really don’t exist in the Democrat universe, because they have told us there is no crisis.  The other day, President Trump went on TV and explained the scope of the crisis we face in our universe.  Chuck and Nancy then went on the air, presumably from their parallel world where all is well.  Americans haven’t been needlessly victimized by criminal aliens, and no barrier is needed, even though in January of this year, Congress voted to build a barrier on the border.  That was then, this is now, and if Trump wants it, it’s no good.  As this is written, the government remains partially shut down.  The President is demanding money for a steel barrier.  Chuck and Nancy (a truly Odd Couple) demand that Trump must open the government, and then they’ll discuss it.  Keep in mind that the shutdown is the President’s only leverage, and even with that leverage, the Democrat offer to Trump is, “Go pound salt.  You get nothing.”  Chuck and Nancy have gone full Corleone on Trump, “This is my offer Mr. President, nothing.”  And all over $5 billion.  Congress has budgeted ten times that amount to be given to foreign nations that spit on America.   Washington spends $25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties.  But $5 billion to secure our border?  No way!  I actually heard Nancy Pelosi complain about the government wasting money.  If Nancy leaked into our universe, she ought to leak the Hell back out.  I don’t know if the alternative universe theory is correct, but I do know this – the Democrats are playing Americans for fools.  Their position is, who you gonna believe, us, or your lying eyes?  I choose my own eyes, unlike Nancy Pelosi’s, mine still open and close.