District of Corruption
Yet the GOP is stupid enough to push for it …
The immigration proposal pending in Congress would transform the nation’s political landscape for a generation or more — pumping as many as 11 million new Hispanic voters into the electorate a decade from now in ways that, if current trends hold, would produce an electoral bonanza for Democrats and cripple Republican prospects in many states they now win easily.
Beneath the philosophical debates about amnesty and border security, there are brass-tacks partisan calculations driving the thinking of lawmakers in both parties over comprehensive immigration reform, which in its current form offers a pathway to citizenship — and full voting rights — for a group of undocumented residents that roughly equals the population of Ohio, the nation’s seventh-largest state.
If these people had been on the voting rolls in 2012 and voted along the same lines as other Hispanic voters did last fall, President Barack Obama’s relatively narrow victory last fall would have been considerably wider, a POLITICO analysis showed.
Key swing states that Obama fought tooth and nail to win — like Florida, Colorado and Nevada — would have been comfortably in his column. And the president would have come very close to winning Arizona.
Republican Mitt Romney, by contrast, would have lost the national popular vote by 7 percentage points, 53 percent to 46 percent, instead of the 4-point margin he lost by in 2012, and would have struggled even to stay competitive in GOP strongholds like Texas, which he won with 57 percent of the vote …
Stupid Party: We’ll lose, but we’ll win by losing.
That line of reasoning as as stupid as football coaches calling a loss “a moral victory.” Moral victories count as losses in the standings.
I’m convinced that the big money establishment behind the Barnacle Class of Stupid Party talking heads and strategists don’t really care if the Republican Party is able to win elections or even win elections, all the want is as much cheap labor flooding the country as possible, and screw everyone else.
If both the republican and democrat parties were controlled by the same monied interests, would their behavior make sense? The real question would be for how long can the democrats attack and blame and scapegoat an increasingly dispossessed people?
Yet the GOP is stupid enough to push for it …
We have the best government money can buy.
If both the republican and democrat parties were controlled by the same monied interests
Sheldon Adelson and Bill Gates take VIOLENT exception to that bigoted idea!
Down with GOP-worship money
The Democrats, from a political perspective, are quite rational for supporting anything that will pack in more nonwhites while for the GOP is is obvious suicide. This goes almost without saying.
One reason the GOP supports this is because it keeps the profits of the Chamber-of-Commerce types up with cheap labor, and because it suppresses labor unions who they (probably correctly) feel will never support the GOP anyway. But this cannot be the entire reason. I suspect the main driver is that both teams are largely owned by the same people and so have common long term goals. The whole thing, as many readers of this site well know already, is a corrupt Mutt and Jeff game.
Rand Paul has been a disappointment, in that he has little of his father’s ideological purity or sense of purpose. But Ron Paul was a libertarian as such, and as such he was not the answer we need either: he was at least someone we could respect for the courage and consistency of his convictions.
Vendikar writes:
Rand Paul has been a disappointment, in that he has little of his father’s ideological purity or sense of purpose. But Ron Paul was a libertarian as such, and as such he was not the answer we need either: he was at least someone we could respect for the courage and consistency of his convictions.
I respond:
It could be argued that Rand Paul does have enough of his father’s ideological purity, and that’s precisely the problem. That libertarianism either in whole or in Rand’s halfway version is the problem. Now it’s not the only ideological problem we face, but it’s one of them.
White nationalism is the only answer.
“White nationalism is the only answer.”
– *yawn*