January 30, 2017Our National IdentitySome Democratic operatives are delighted about the crowds flocking to airports and are imagining ever-bigger crowds as a list of favorite liberal policies are threatened by Trump. If you put other issues on the same level as immigration, you are blind to the real battle being fought. The Democratic leadership does not seem to understand that the issue of immigration is special, because the battle is fundamentally one about national identity. We are a nation of immigrants. Trump is all about attacking this identity: his orders say that this nation belongs only to the whitefolk who list their ancestry on Census forms as "American." Identity is special. People will suffer tariffs, corruption, crumbling schools, pollution, and sickness without a fight; but people are enraged when you attack who they are. Posted by David at January 30, 2017 08:17 PMComments
Less than 100 years ago we were still stealing this land from indigenous Indians who lived in 'America' before us for decades. They should have had a better homeland security department. It's ironically sad that Americans today fear immigrants coming here, killing us and taking our land when that is what we just did to North American tribes. Today's immigrants commit LESS crime than the current US population. Posted by: at November 12, 2018 09:53 AMPost a comment
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