(November 21, 2014 at 4:31 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: They don't want amnesty in large part because if these immigrants would be allowed to vote, they would remember the party who tried so hard to destroy their families, their livelihood and spit upon their language and culture. Black people don't, in general, vote for the party that largely thinks of them, treats them, and on occasion openly refers to them as a race of lazy welfare queens and thugs.
The Republicans completely miscalculated around about 1968 or so, when under RMH they decided to conflate the disparate terms white, loyal, law-abiding, and conservative. They drove away many undecided centrists, over the next twenty or thirty years, by their exclusionary and dichotomous rhetoric.
They won the election that year, to be sure; but they hitched their horse to a falling star. The nation is becoming more multicultural, less religious, and more skeptical of authority, and they've tied themselves to the anchor.
Pardon all the mixed metaphors, my fingers are running ahead of my brain right now.
