[PAA-Discuss] Today's Immigration Battle - It's the Economy, Stupid

[Randy Scott]

There's more to this immigration issue than just racism or taxes going to schools & hospitals.

It's a clear indication that the economy is not as good as the propagandists have been telling us.

One of the interesting studies I read while in college was done by a historian who went through
newspapers from the late 19th century, the era when the KKK was a growing movement and freedmen
were trying to make a living as share-croppers. The author found a direct inverse corelation
between the price of cotton and the number of reported lynchings.

When the price of cotton went down the lynchings went up. When the price of cotton went up, the
number of lynchings went down. It's age-old competition for resources and the percieved scarcity.

This immigration issue wasn't a big deal when the nation was on track toward record-setting budget
surplus. No matter how much the neo-cons may talk about how good the economy is, the fact on the
street is that even the conservative, redneck, racist bush-supporters are feeling the pinch.

The proof is in the fact that an economically disadvantaged class is being demonized for a variety
of distractive reasons, but most commonly for being a "burden" on the tax resources.

Cognitive dissonance demands that they cannot talk about the poor economy directly; that would
imply that the administration is lying about the economic trouble we're in. So they're forced to
find an indirect way to say the same thing.

Every candidate seeking to displace a Repub should integrate these facts into their stump speech
talking points. "Immigrant workers were not an issue when the economy was strong. When desperate,
starving people are demonized it proves that the economy sucks, in both countries."


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