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Immigrants vote for the party that promises them other people’s money.
It is a very long drawn-out read that doesn’t say anything much.
Reading the title covers it.
They caveat every discussion " We are all, for legal immigration but..". "We" are not all for it. So who the hell is "we", do they got a turd in their pocket?
The author needed to end his article right there, as that says it all.
Conservatives will begin to truly understand politics when they uderstand that all of this “muh free market, muh hard work, muh pull ourselves up by the bootstraps” stuff is largely garbage.
Politics is about patronage. Immigrants - including the “based, hard-workin’ bidness owner” ones - overwhelmingly go Democrat because Democrats have successfully turned them into clients by handing out preferential treatment and gibmedats.
No amount of Republican tax cutting and burbling about “getting off the Democrat plantation” is going to change that. You’re not going to shame immigrants out of wanting free stuff, in whatever form it may come. Unless Republicans either a) get serious about forcefully evicting the large mass of immigrants from the country, or b) get serious about using the resources of government to fish away Democrat clients into their own patronage network (an iffy proposition), the country is just going to keep tilting leftward.
My mom works with a number of Russian immigrants who are conservatives, and saw elderly Chinese clients for years who are so grateful to be here instead of in China. In both countries, the government disappears people, and her coworkers are alarmed that they’re beginning to see similarities in the way Russia and the USA are being run.
It scares the sh¡t out of me, too.
“American conservatives love to imagine immigrants as secret Republicans”
Speak for yourself. They are fleeing socialist third world s holes because THEY MADE IT A THIRD WORLD SOCIALIST S HOLE. Yeah, fine, maybe they don’t believe in abortion. But they sure believe in breaking the law and collecting free stuff. They are instant and forever democrat voters. Drive the 99 corridor from Bakersfield to Yuba City and tell me what country you’re in.
I remember all that ‘natural conservatives’ crap here on FR waaay back in the day. If you didn’t believe that the border jumpers would vote conservative you were a racist heretic.