Shows how stupid the American public is. 11 MILLION people arrived in the US,a high proportion Muslim, when George W. Bush was president and in his first term the feds did not prosecute a SINGLE employer for hiring illegals. It was part of the plan to keep labor costs from rising (Elaine Chao, his labor secretary, said American workers were lazy). Obama deported many more people than Bush. Comes Trump, and he doesn't build the wall, doesn't get Mexico to fund it, threatens to nationalize slaughterhouses to keep workers from striking, and these idiot Americans trust him more than the Democrats to protect labor. There is a special kind of stupid in America that defies belief that they would believe a compulsive liar and thief like Trump in ANY promise.
Republicans trusted more on immigration
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 5, 2024 4:44 PM |
First, people like simple answers to complex questions.
Second, Democrats use all the wrong language to talk about immigration. Republicans sound like tough guys. Democrats sound like social workers. Then see the first point again.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 5, 2024 3:06 PM |
Politics 101: perception is everything.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 5, 2024 3:11 PM |
And they liked their own bill in Congress this year because Trump toad them to. The GOP doesn’t get anything done aside from lowering taxes on the wealthy and corporations and attempt to repeal existing law they don’t like-
social security, Medicare and public education are on their hit list.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 5, 2024 3:21 PM |
Op, did you know that 2 out of 3 Republicans are just as stupid as the 3rd?
Poll conducted at the Walmart in Bumfuck, Alabama
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 5, 2024 4:28 PM |
R1 is spot on. The Democrats' weakness is the same as Republicans' strength: messaging. And it's perverse because the public generally agrees with the Democrats' position over the Republicans'.
Capitalism is dependent on sustained growth. We need immigrants if we're going to continue to maintain our standard of living because (white) Americans are no longer having babies sufficient to sustain the growth to which we've become accustomed. Everybody on both sides of the aisle know this, but none of them want to discuss the actual matters because immigration has been a hot-button issue since, well, the founding of the country.
Look at basic facts: we could halt illegal immigration overnight if we did not offer them a reason to come to America, which is work. But we don't want to prosecute the people who hire illegal immigrants, we only want to punish the immigrants themselves. At the same time, we have become dependent on immigrants to keep our society functioning whether its the guys who mow our lawns or the guys who maintain our bridges or the gals who raise our children or the gals who clean our homes (sorry to be sexist; it is what it is).
Donald Trump talks a tough game about immigration, but the reality is that without immigration his businesses would collapse. Republicans screech about a wide-open border, but when literally every policy position they've held for the last 25 years was incorporated into the best border security bill in a generation, they voted against the very bill that they negotiated. Immigration is the new abortion for Republicans, and they know it. And just like the way that abortion blew up in their faces and they need run and hide when it comes up, if they actually get what they want, the issue will blow up in their faces and they will have to run and hide.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 5, 2024 4:44 PM |