Once upon a recent past, our beloved Republican leader (I am a Republican) thunderously demanded “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” So eloquent, so right, and so righteous.

President Ronald Reagan stood tall and lifted the country to a lofty height to demand the Berlin Wall be torn down because the wall stood for isolationism, anti-freedom, us-against-them, clannishness, the world being not a community for all but separated into tribes, suspicious and hostile to one another.

The Republican Party, which had vehemently demanded and got the Berlin Wall  torn down, now demanded, even more vehemently, to build a wall on our southern border with Mexico. Forget about the irony, which to the extremist Republicans including some of the once ardent followers of the late president, might just be a word spoken on a planet in a faraway Goldilocks zone that they don’t know what it means. Forget about the moral and ethical ramifications of a wall between people and countries. Forget about the irony and selfishness of those immigrants, children, and grandchildren of immigrants who forcefully and shamelessly advocate their immigration position that “We are in, now close the door.” They load their call for a wall with so much fake patriotism, duties to the country, and duties to protect American values and traditions that crowd out the obvious result of building a wall: everyone would want their walls.

Starting with Mexico. Why would they not build a wall on their southern border? Canadians would want to build a southern border wall too because they were fed up with the American antics. Walls in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, walls between Eastern European countries and Russia, and between Russia and China. Walls between Israel and the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza. Egypt and Turkey would want their own walls. Little Monaco would build walls too because they reasoned, every country has walls, why not us? Everyone has reasons to build walls at their borders.

Then the Kari Lakes of American Republican politics would want Arizona to build a wall on its west border to block woke Californians from going into Arizona. In no time, we would have walls all over the country. The governor of Texas would want a very long wall SURROUNDING itself because he did not want immigrants, or anyone without his approval, to sneak into Texas. Florida would definitely want walls to block not just immigrants but anyone who worked for Disney.

From outer space looking down you would see little boxes like beehive cells covering Earth, suspicious and hostile toward, and isolated from, other cells. In a short time, the Republicans would be so exhilarated because they were not bothered by anybody. But little things would start happening: prices of strawberries doubled; grass in the middle-class lawns two feet high and no one to cut it; swimming pools turning green with algae. Then the lives of the privileged would be affected: limousine services stopped because no driver would be available; yachts moored rusted alongside jetties, going nowhere.

Then, big things: Tesla and other electric cars would become obsolete because cobalt was too scarce for building batteries, and computers could not be built because of insufficient silicon supplies. In their own cell-like countries, people would spill CO2 into space at will. No commerce in any international waterways, only pirates and terrorists. Oil would not flow, and food would stay in one place. Travel would be suicidal.

People armed to their teeth would start looking over their shoulders when they walked out of their cell, always on the alert to unfriendly others. Tired of suspecting everyone all the time, the billionaires would confine themselves inside their fortified mansions. Or waking up from their factories’ floor to find themselves alone with their idle machines, and hear nothing but their own cursing “What the f—k is going on?”

That would be the possible future of the US and the world if somehow, the Republicans, against all reasons, could manage to build an American southern border wall.

Would America then have the shamelessness or temerity to admonish, “World, it is getting ridiculous. Tear down your walls.” Of course, one could imagine the answer – an uproarious laughter.

Everyone certainly wants to hear the rationale for building the wall other than the racist theory of the poisoning of the American blood pushed forth by the extremist elements in the Republican Party and the twisted and demagogic arguments by those who know that building a wall is not right or necessary but clamor for it to be built to ingratiate themselves with the people, who they think could benefit them.

The Republicans’ answer to the argument that a border wall is hideous, counter-productive, and outright harmful, is, “Impeach the Secretary of Homeland Security!”