Sheril KirshenbaumImmigrants are people.
Regardless of where they stand on border policies, it would be nice to hear candidates talk about them that way.
Sally Strange@Sheril "Regardless of their immigration policies" seems naive, or a cop-out. Talking about immigrants as if they were people would render the GOP's platform unworkable. You can't mass deport people without dehumanizing them.
post-punkedThe trick is a bunch of Americans have already been dehumanized, most of them Democratic, so less concern for failed Spanish colonials isn't a problem.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/us/desantis-florida-migrants-marthas-vineyard.html
@postpunky couple things. You're not factually wrong but the frame needs work.
Just because I typically vote Democratic doesn't make me a Democratic person. They don't own me. They're just a political party. And they're not guiltless when it comes to dehumanizing immigrants.
Then, there are the 30 - 35% of people who mostly don't vote at all. That group has an even more disproportionate share of people likely to be dehumanized by the GOP than "typical Democratic voters" does.
I find it interesting in California unified independents would replace #CAGOP & no one courts them. The party has enough support to get a governor recalled but is too weak to have him removed. The electorate needs support for a viable constituency.
What the Democrats are doing this era on immigration makes any excuse for anything if this is the height of the ethical bar. Just because something doesn't bother us doesn't make it acceptable.
@postpunky I am having a hard time seeing the connection between what I said and what you just said