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Grace Rose's avatar

This idea that “immigrants will vote for Democrats out of gratitude” *completely ignores* the fact that non-citizens cannot vote!! But of course that’s the corollary for this idiocy - “illegal votes are happening everywhere so we must make it harder to vote!!!”

When I was a kid an eon ago, I remember hearing the populace regularly referred to in the news as “citizens”. And we were taught civics (social studies) in school. Somewhere along the way the populace became “consumers” and our only civic duty became increasing the country’s GDP. Civics and critical thinking fell out of vogue. And here we are today with people nodding along to the ideas that immigrants will vote and are here to “replace [us]” (i.e. whites.) 🥺

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Karen Monroy's avatar

I do not understand why the law does its Susan Collins pearl clutch over the incitement to hate. Holding hate “ideas” in any form and hates dissemination  is a crime against humanity, morality and the law.

I’ve been voting-letter writing- phone calling and donating to candidates who are for equality under the law. None of the collective efforts by all of us doing the same seems to impact the hate.

We need a new plan. Democracy needs Biden to have fireside chats in “teach us” mode with folks like the author and @HeatherCoxRichardson.

We have to stop being so utterly ignorant.

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