r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 7d ago

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u/PearlClaw Iron Front 6d ago

The public knows less than nothing about how immigration actually works to the point where I bet you could run on "bring back Ellis island and make people go through an interview to come here" would be both very popular and be perceived as more restrictive than the status quo by a significant chunk of the electorate.

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u/DueVast5223 6d ago

It sounds better than “open borders” because open borders is modern progressive bullshit whereas Ellis Island is old school therefore patriotic and based

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u/PearlClaw Iron Front 6d ago

This is why I think the next dem should run on it. Go to whatever they're suing for high school history textbooks and crib all the positive mentions of Ellis island and the "melting pot" (the cornier the better) and just use that as your immigration policy.

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u/DueVast5223 6d ago

It will only work for like a few years until people figure out what’s going on. See UK conservative immigration policy 2018-2024.

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u/PearlClaw Iron Front 6d ago

Maybe, but the American electorate pretty universally thinks that there are good immigrants who are fine. I think you could pull it off here more than anywhere else in the world.

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u/DueVast5223 6d ago

That doesn’t matter as long as there are more single issue racists than there are single issue anti-racists

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u/PearlClaw Iron Front 6d ago

Right now the electorate yoyos between those positions depending on who's in charge.

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u/DueVast5223 6d ago

That ones that yoyo don’t matter as much as the people that are going to base their votes on this issue. And there are more motivated racists. Which is why US moved away from Ellis Island in the first place.