What? Illegals vote?
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A good example of an abandonment of principle, without even being aware of it. Play the political punditry game long enough, and I'm sure it doesn't take long, and your only principle will be winning. You've long since convinced yourself that after you win, you'll do all those principled things, so you don't have to so much as give a second thought to principle while you're trying to win. Problem is that you'll live your whole live without getting out of "trying to win" mode.
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The more direct slip-up in the post is the idea that legal voters of a certain ethnic background are deeply concerned with illegals of that same background. That simply isn't the case, and the idea that it is, is just a symptom of the idiotic racism of the identitarian left, assuming everybody who looks the same, also thinks the same.
It's one of the deeper ironies of the identitarian left, driven by degreed white females, that they believe the deepest political division in the country is between them and people who look exactly like them (whites on the left and right), while they assume that all categories of people who aren't white, think basically the same.
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The more direct slip-up in the post is the idea that legal voters of a certain ethnic background are deeply concerned with illegals of that same background. That simply isn't the case, and the idea that it is, is just a symptom of the idiotic racism of the identitarian left, assuming everybody who looks the same, also thinks the same.
It's one of the deeper ironies of the identitarian left, driven by degreed white females, that they believe the deepest political division in the country is between them and people who look exactly like them (whites on the left and right), while they assume that all categories of people who aren't white, think basically the same.
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It might or might not be a true point. For electoral calculus, there is a hidden cost to establishing that your side doesn't actually have certain principles that it claims to have. As many on the far left are excited to say, many people stayed home this election because the Dems didn't live up to the principles that should have made them strongly against the genocide in Gaza. Establishing those principles won't necessarily make the latino voters happy, but they also need to keep the virtue purist degreed whites happy.
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Nevertheless it’s a good point. Insofar as dems were pro-immigrant to appeal to Latinos that’s clearly not working, and not worth the political cost.
@jon-nyc said in What? Illegals vote?:
Nevertheless it’s a good point. Insofar as dems were pro-immigrant to appeal to Latinos that’s clearly not working, and not worth the political cost.
If it’s a 55/45 split, you stand a very real chance of losing more of the 55, making the problem worse. If Latinos break conservative, the democrats wind up in an untenable position.
