RIP thread

[The Grand Nudger]

Americans have grown markedly more positive toward immigration over the past year, with the share wanting immigration reduced dropping from 55% in 2024 to 30% today. At the same time, a record-high 79% of U.S. adults say immigration is a good thing for the country.

These shifts reverse a four-year trend of rising concern about immigration that began in 2021 and reflect changes among all major party groups.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/692522/surg...bated.aspx

A fitting context for an exploration of america's eulogy.  Mass deportation and immigration are popular with the majority of americans.  How did we get into such a weird place where both things are simultaneously true, and can even be true of an individual person?

On the one hand, we have people who believe that too many of the wrong sorts of people came here, it's hurting america, and it's because they're brown.  On the other, that too many people came here the wrong way, it's hurting america, and they just so happen to be brown.  We would find that both cohorts massively overestimate the number of Those People.  They've been given reason to.  Replacement narratives have made deep inroads on both sides of that divide.  It's also true that we are hurting.

The difference between them lies in specific ignorance, but not in practical outcomes.  Racial and ethnographic essentialism on the right, and the disparity between how people think government is and how government actually is, in the middle and on the left.  Take the recent raid on sk contractors.  The right wing thinks these are the wrong sort of people, and they're stealing from america.  Nothing more needs be said.  Many....many people in the middle and on the left, however, believe that there was a "right way" for a big company to get foreign contractors into the us in the first place, making them rule breakers. Takers...again.  There was not.  Precisely zero sk contractors could be here "the right way" because their national quota of "proper visas" is exactly zero.  

In sum....we need alot more people, but only the right kind of people, who came here the right way. It wouldn't matter if this were true in fact (and it isn't). It's wrong in spirit.



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