• Seasoned_Greetings@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You’re describing the average conservative. The people who push the view that immigration is ruining the US aren’t average conservatives. They’re the ones who lie to conservatives to spin them into a rage in order to manipulate their vote. Those people are not themselves conservatives, but figureheads that collect a nice pretty penny from the rich folk to make sure the anger of their base never turns against the class whose fault everything actually is.

    In short, as long as conservatives keep letting their talking heads tell them who to be mad at, they never will be furious at the ultra wealthy. And that’s by design.

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      1 year ago

      The people who push the view that immigration is ruining the US aren’t average conservatives

      Yes, they are.

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        1 year ago

        The big problem with that comment is most of them are also saying immigrants are taking our jobs, but they won’t work them because the money isn’t good enough for the actual work that they do.

        And these business owners complaining about this will turn around and hire them because they are willing to work for less than minimum wage increasing the businesses profit.

        All in all, if you look at it reasonably, the ultimate problem is created by business owners wanting to make more money and to do that push slave labor wages that only the immigrants are willing to take.

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          1 year ago

          I do like hiring illegals, they are good workers and never ask for too much. If they do kick up any fuss you can always just call ICE

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        1 year ago

        Maybe I framed that statement wrong. Of course they are the ones that say it the loudest. But it’s not them who introduced that mindset into conservative crowds. Just like the recent flare up of transphobia. They hear it from the top that trans folk are molesting children, or that immigrants are taking jobs, or whatever the thing is that keeps their ire off of the rich, and they spread it around their own circles because they need an out group to villify.

        You haven’t noticed that hatred for these groups tend to be a conveniently-timed deflection from actual problems?

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        1 year ago

        Getting the average Democrat riled up and angry at the average Republican is also by design. As long as the working class is mad at itself, it isn’t looking at the ruling class as the problem.

        The ruling class is absolutely the source of the problem.