Every time I hear this I wonder how many Hispanic people the speaker of this opinion knows. I live in a city on the southern US border. That spot in Tijuana where the caravans set up camps is about 30 minutes from my house. My city isn’t a white city and it is great. That supposed open season on Hispanics brought about by Trump’s election never happened. Hate crimes were higher under Obama (peaked in 2010 @ 135) and the hate crime we do have is almost never anti-Hispanic. The Tijuana residents were more anti-immigrant than San Diego was, and the Tijuana mayor was far more conservative than San Diego’s mayor.
Called “Tijuana Trump,”Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum wants to close his border to the migrant caravan coming from Honduras, or as he called them, the “pot smokers, bums and bad people.”…
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My lived experience is only on the California border, but the Texas border counties showed wild swings in the last election toward the GOP. Florida has also become reliably Republican thanks in large part to their Hispanic population being overwhelmingly conservative. That seems to match what I’m seeing in my community. I'm genuinely curious. Does this opinion of south-of-the-border immigrants being treated as 'the other' come from people you know or is it from media you are consuming?
I'm not sure of exactly which article you are referring to but I do know the polling on the issue is very one-sided. People on the political left despise those on the political right but those on the political right don't reciprocate that same level of animosity. Personally I can get along with anybody.
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37% of Democrats wouldn't befriend someone who voted for the other party.
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You can see this with the agenda wonks in here. So many of their posts are downright degrading of people who have different opinions than theirs.
But it's better now than it used to be. They are a little less likely to resort to overt personal attacks or campaigns to drive "the opposition" off the site.
The difference is simply that there is no organized activists on the "Right" or more "conservative" or "constitutional" or merely "American" sorts. I've watched for years as groups of activists with pro-fascist causes have flown every false flag imaginable for every cause that could be anyhow made "good" in the media.
I've thought that environmental causes are pretty objectively demonstrable "good" things, but they never stop at protecting anyone or anything, and whenever any such cause gets in the way of really important money, it just dies on the vine. Most of the valid issues could be addressed locally with ordinances or zoning plans and local reserves managed locally, but that is never the method. The method always involves high level control that is obligated to "The Interests" somehow, officials who can efficiently be bought off.
The Escalante-Grand Staircase is a good example.
The area had very large and very valuable mining claims owned by a Dutch corporate. Probably the most important, valuable and cleanest coal on planet earth. Pres. Clinton spent two weeks on the Rockefeller ranch in Jackson Hole, then flew to the south rim of the Grand Canyon. About 20 very old Douglas Fir trees were cut down to create the vista Clinton needed to wave his hands northward towards Utah to declare the E-GS a "monument". I spoke later to two people with important connections to the Rockefellers. One a geologist on contract for doing the oil claims for Chevron. He said "We Can't Let Them have that Coal". The other, a lady, when I said the monument wouldn't stop the coal from being mined later, when it was owned by "the right people", simply said "I don't care".
The Dutch company had planned to run a sluice pipeline down the mountain to the railroad near Las Vegas and move the coal slurry that way to market, with plans to do major coal-fired power plants in Indonesia.
Utah has enough coal to power the world for 500 years. That's longer than world Uranium resources will last.
I was looking today at the Gold Butte National Monument in southern Nevada near Las Vegas. It is literally where the Bundy cattle range is(was), and where Sen. Reid was going to set the Chinese up with a hundred square miles of solar panel glassed-over desert.
Well, people didn't like the solar panel desert idea so much, and Reid was "outed" for his corruption. But he got behind the plan to keep everyone else from using it. Until times change and "the right people" need the place.
I've been willing to believe we've got some "global warming" going on from burning fossil fuels, but the UN/fascist mob has attached so much socialist/fascist governance to it, and have yet to work out any real effective answers to the problem, it is not credible as a "cause".
Especially when the Russian folks are taking pics of themselves and posting them online, pulling Wooley mammoth tusks out of the muck exposed by the retreating Arctic ice sheet. Warming alarmist/agenda wonks have been claiming it's never been like this before, and it's all our fault. Well, dammit, it has been like this many times before, and it's never been our fault. The mammoths eat grass, and to have been there before the onset of the last ice age, there had to be lots and lots of grass there.
We have generally four or five warmer excursions during each interglacial warm epoch, and the ice ages generally start off from a short period of very warm global temps.
Gotta have a lot of stored heat in the ocean waters to sustain all the snowfall you need in the Arctic/Northern tundra to create an ice sheet. And build it. You just don't get that water into the atmosphere without a lot of heat.
I think it is more likely we'll have another ice age before Red's Rhode Island beaches see two feet higher oceans.
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