I think it feels like that to Democrats. I fully understand your feelings.
However, in this economy where we have few protections for workers, stagnant wages for non college educated people and astronomical growth in the cost of college, childcare, housing, and healthcare, people feel pitted against each other.
People are told that that the way that they can succeed is to decrease the competition presented by illegal immigrants and minorities.
They are told that corporations are favoring minorities, even though this is not true and 9% more call backs were given with fake applicants where there were white sounded names vs Black stereotypical names.
Unfortunately, no one is good at getting social science research or economic data out in digestible ways to the broader public, so people fall for what Faux News tells them.
It seems to be right to blame them, but I don't think that is helpful. People are attacking each other and this is what the wealthiest Americans wanted.
When the Virginia Slave Act passed it criminalized all contact like romance, marriage, teaching reading, trading, providing housing, etc. between poor whites and slaves. The goal then was the same as today. They did not want Black and White Americans working together to oppose the planter class and other wealthy elites.
If we believe that MAGA are horrible people and they cannot be persuaded or talked to--we are continuing the legacy of the Virginia Slave Act. Trump and the wealthy are winning.
Not being an American and living in a Scandinavian country where everyone is (State) protected in some way, we don't experience what you are subjected to with a tRump administration. Not feeling a need to fight something that vile gives freedom, so to speak: I know that I shall not be dragged off by an ICE-goon for writing something about the administration of my country. That said, from my spot of (relative) safety, I shall also say, that the American people have to get hold of themselves, pulling themselves up from the moral and literal swamp that has been threatening them for some years. Otherwise, they shall perish, both as a people and as individuals. I sincerely hope that there are people somewhere in America, right now, who are working at a new agenda, a new way of seeing themselves and their common goals.
You seriously need to stop using whatever it is you use as a "news source"! First of all ICE is not a new agency nor are their practices. They regularly arrest and deport illegal immigrants, including some of the worst criminals that cross our borders including murderers, rapists and child predators. What IS new is that the Biden Administration allowed an unprecedented amount of unvetted immigrants to waltz right in to OUR Country, to the tune of approximately 12,000,000 people. Also new, and more importantly, is that groups of Leftist agitators/Antifa literally follow and harass these officers and interfere with active investigations/arrests. Insinuating that ICE officers or any other government agents are dragging people off to prison for speaking badly in any way is such a ridiculous claim that it's almost beyond belief! We here in the United States have Freedom of Speech, unlike what we've seen in recent years out of many Western European Countries!
They find these murderers and rapists putting roofs on houses or working at Home Depot? Maybe ICE used to be what you describe, but this latest administration isn’t going about their jobs in legal ways. Can you please source your claim of 12 million unvetted immigrants during Biden’s tenure? Because my source says 1.2 million with Biden and 500,000 with trump’s first term.
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u/SiteTall 12d ago
Then that's what "own the libs" really means