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Don't 30-40% of any given population support a strong man/fascist anyway?
The Trump campaign doesn't hammer the immigration issue just because they're xenophobic racists. They also do it because it's one of the few issues that they can run hard on that rallies their base and has the potential to attract some democrats.
People that hate immigrants from either party consider it a central issue, so because it's so charged, there are actually a small subset of democrats that will hold their nose and vote for Trump because of this single issue.
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13% of Democrats agree with Trump on that. What the actual fuck?
No surprise? People have nuanced views, different opinions, from left to center to right, even hardcore racist ones... and vote Democrats. Just as you could find conservatives who do not agree with the statement.
The statement is so vague and loaded and can be agreed or disagreed with from all kinds of people.
Edit: And yes it's quite ironic(?) that so many people agree with this - in a country where people unironically track that they're 12% German, or 20% Irish, or whatever.
Immigrants are the blood of the US. This fascist bullshit is the poison.
From the "Great American Melting Pot" to this shit in one generation. WTF
If you think this is new, you haven't paid attention to history.
This is the US. Mutt Nation. What the hell does "pure" or "poisoned" blood mean here?
Nativism is unfortunately a consistent undercurrent.
Look up the "Know Nothing" movement.
The US has a growing fascism problem
It does not go away with Trump. I wish democrats would address it instead of pointing at Trump like he's an aberration
Fascism is the problem. Trump is a very notable symptom, but many others are also to blame for the fascism issue, including some democrats. I believe this fixation with Trump is due to people wanting simple answers to complex problems.
That's funny because we're almost all immigrants, so I guess we're all poison?
Ehh, then again there was that whole native genocide thing.
No, no, no, not us. I'm talking about those bad immigrants. You know who I'm talking about .....
its the 100% venn overlap of racists. america is still pretty full up on people who hate other people for no reason but race
I mean, how many people supported slavery and later, Jim Crow.
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The funny thing, though, is that the people who supported slavery also generally supported immigration. And I don't mean by importing slaves (that too, of course). They wanted immigrants because they wanted America to grow. Sure, they didn't want black immigrants, but that's a whole other thing. When Chinese immigrants started pouring into California during the Gold Rush era, the response wasn't, "immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country!" it was "Hey! Dirt cheap labor! And stay out of the buildings with the posted 'no Chinese' signs or else."
So even those people, awful as they were, wouldn't agree.
When Chinese immigrants started pouring into California during the Gold Rush era, the response wasn’t, “immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country!”
Chinese Exclusion Act says hi.
Bet. So why don't all you palefaces go back to England, Ireland, Germany, Spain, France...
I was at a Ska show last night. They played a tRump ad about the border before the music. We almost left. Surreal, honestly, for the type of crowd I would expect.
Music and politics are super weird. Paul Ryan, former Republican speaker of the house, was an RATM fan until Tom Morello told him to fuck off. Ann Coulter is a massive Deadhead. So is Tucker Carlson. There's even a photo of Tucker hanging out with Jerry Garcia when he was in his 20s. The story is in an interview here if you can stomach it: https://www.maxraskin.com/interviews/interview-with-tucker-carlson
And then there's the musicians themselves- Johnny Ramone, Alice Cooper, Gene Simmons, all conservatives.
Yeah, I get it. I was really into Dead Kennedys and Jellos spoken words. The whole movement was anti-rayguns. It's just super weird. I imagine Paul Ryan is so dumb he didn't realize he was the forces in which we we were raging. Conservatives are not big on context. i.e. YMCA....
I think this is also a problem of perspective: the US Democrats are only "left" when seen from inside the US political spectrum. Seen from the outside they barely reach a center position and would be considered conservative-right in many other countries.
Horrifying