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[raybear]

Dear Democratic Party,

Please please please please please please please make immigration a platform issue and push it as hard as your weak selves can go, not because I think you currently have anything viable to say or do on the matter, but because it will split the conservatives in half, separating out the white elitist panicky racist xenophobes from the white elitist corporations who honestly know on whose backs the flow of their money relies, and frankly, this is a road I would love for them to go down.

OR, um, see comments.

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[raybear.livejournal.com]

Whenever immigration is the issue, immigrants lose.

True. My comment was very much in the macrocosm context of the "mainstream two-party system of primarily talking and not doing", i.e. news, not the microcosm of peoples lives, which generally I take a greater interest in. The actual significant good and real work tends to happen on a grassroots level far, far, far away from DC anyway, because of the Big Labor issues.

I agree that Repubs do tend to band together and suck things up, which I find fascinating (and maddening), hence me also thinking about what could possible happen to split them in a significant way. I've also been reading a lot about living wage as a possible developing platform in this way.

[unscrambled.livejournal.com]

Right, my point is that if the big people take up the issue, then the immigrants get fucked.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

Point taken.