[eleni121]

US becoming Brazil? Mexico? That's a leap IMO. I can tell you that in Mexico's case Marxist ideology has gone nowhere fast. The Zapatista movement flirted with it, castro has tried hard there, and nothing has come of it. Our conversations with Mexicans proves at least to me that the Mexican poor are every bit as ambitious as any other ambitious person.

Renewed international Marxist movement? That is always a possibility and one which disturbs me as well. Immigration here helps stifle that possibility as I see it. I see the seeds (maybe more) of an even worse possibility than Marxism already in an energized islam. That is what we are fighting now, but its causes are only tangentially economic. Your response?

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I actually see immigration and legalization of illegals as the start of a big move to left in this country. The unions and the left correctly believe that the importation of impoverished immigrants will force the government to furnish more of a safety net. I don't agree that Mexican immigrants, legal or illegal, show the ambition you describe - the percentage of their population which is on the dole shows otherwise.

I'm pretty certain that we'll have a national health insurance system with ten years - there was an article in the Washington Times last week which stated that over 80% of Mexican immigrants wanted such a system. They, and other immigrants, are much more likely to be uninsured or on Medicaid than the native born. I don't know how familiar you are with immigrant neighborhoods in New York - last year a saw an area of Queens plastered with propaganda from The Sendero Luminso - what are we importing?

This article explains the plans of the left:

'A Fair and Just Amnesty'

The left is using free trade as an argument for their policies - I assume that you are familiar with the revolt of the indigenous people in Latin America supported by American Marxists. It's not really far fetched to predict communist revolution in many Latin American states. Africa is a basket case caused by socialism and Marxism and I don't see that there will be any improvement in the near future.

Radical Islam has many commonalties with Marxism - Marxism + Allah?