Your Humble Blogger is astonished, again and again, to discover just how important people think illegal immigration is. I mean, yes, I should have figured it out by now, but I am still astonished. What the hell, people! There are actual problems, here.
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Ah, well. Given that people really are upset about Spanish-speaking furriners (or possibly furriers, but that’s another kettle of proverbial) taking over and turning this country into a \u2026 um \u2026 well, given that people really are upset, it makes sense that the Presidential Election should address the issue, at least somewhat. Ezra Klein, over at Tapped, talks about immigration and the dems<\/a>, talking about the need to make the case for “why Republicans are systemically unwilling to actually crack down on the cause of illegal immigration: Employers who want to undercut wage, benefit, and safety regulations.” Myself, I think that if we made the case persuasively that Republicans were supporting employers who want to undercut wage, benefit and safety regulations and that Democrats were opposing such employers<\/I>, then illegal immigration wouldn’t need to enter into it. We’d have our majorities in the two Houses and a Democrat in the White House, and we’d have campaigned on a progressive platform which would allow us to govern like progressives. It wouldn’t last, of course, as nothing does, but while it was not lasting, we could get some things done, wouldn’t you think? Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>, In Which Your Humble Blogger drifts into a happy dream of the future, and if you wake me up before three o’clock, I shall cry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18155,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10712\/revisions\/18155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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