The New Colossus and the Welfare State
Beneficiaries of government largess tend to vote for proponents of more largess. Republicans have tied themselves in knots over immigration reform, but their real beef should be with all that government largess. Instead, the party long ago accepted the welfare state edifice and added its own wings. However, Republicans are decaf redistributionists compared to the Democrats’ bold espresso roast, and recipients prefer the strong stuff. Immigration is a loser issue for Republicans, and a win-win-win issue for the Democrats. Illegal immigrants are predominately Hispanic, a group with a higher birthrate than the indigenous population that already leans heavily Democratic. Those who are here for the largess will surely choose bold espresso roast. As Ann Coulter and Pat Buchanan, among others, have pointed out, any path to citizenship for illegal immigrants will disproportionately add to Democratic voter rolls.
" My mother came to this country when she was 14 years old. She worked in a sweatshop as a seamstress, and it was only because there was such a sweatshop in which she could get a job that she was able to come to the U.S. But she didn’t stay in the sweatshop and neither did most of the others. It was a way station for them, and a far better one than anything available to them in the old country. And she never thought it was anything else. I must say that I find it slightly revolting that people sneer at a system that’s made it possible for them to sneer at it. "
That video never gets old...
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