Do democrats not believe in the rule of law? Seriously. We’re becoming a banana republic, without border control. Is that the end game? Why? http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/border-agent-we-might-as-well-abolish-our-immigration-laws-altogether/article/2582401
I do think that it’s the democrat’s end game. Let in so many illegals so that it truly gets to the point where it’s impossible to find them all and/or until they get enough power in Washington to declare amnesty, and then hope that they vote democrat for life since they’re the party that gifted them citizenship.
And I continue to sit in a queue waiting my turn to get a green card. And yes it bothers the shit out of me that the US government appears to care more about making it easier for illegal aliens to wonder in, get jobs, and eventually vote while blatently ignoring all the laws. Yes the immigration system is messed up but the government should focus on fixing it, not just selectively enforcing parts and ignoring others based on political preference.
Well, the Republicans outlawed slavery, passed civil rights legislation, and didn’t support KKK members in their pursuit of elected office. Hasn’t quite worked out in their favor though.
And what about all those people standing in line legally? Who claims we shouldn’t take care of them first? So perverse.
“Republicans outlawed slavery” is a technically true but realistically misleading statement. Republicans of then were not the republicans of now. The republican lawmakers of now are generally from the south & midwest. Those were not the people who outlawed slavery, those were the people who almost ripped the country apart for slavery.
As for your civil rights claim, I see more of the same. This is more of a demographics claim than anything else. The south used to be demecratic, its now republican.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/republicans-party-of-civil-rights
Although I agree we should still be deporting people at the border, this seems a little ridiculous.
Wow, that article is grasping at straws. Talking about using skewed stats to promote a distorted view. Their number jockeying is possible because the Union representation was much larger than the Confederate representation. Republicans became the majority in the South because of a slow migration away from the Democratic party to the Republican party. The article implies that there was an overnight flip. Everybody just changed hats one day. Just a ridiculous premise. A more fair statement would be that Union democrats were not racist but absorbed many confederates and the party still has to deal with that fraction today. The Union republicans also absorbed confederates, but in smaller numbers. The fact remains that the party that spearheaded equal rights for all was the Republicans.
And just to add, I’m not a fan of either party. They both seem to be on the same team these days. But a Democrat is supposed to be enforcing the law at the moment, so they get the heat.
Ghibli, why do you hate Hispanics?
Why do you hate your mother?
I wouldn’t suggest the Drudge Report as your primary source for news headlines
Worked for the Liberals in Canada (albeit not with illegals).
Was the featured article for a while at least. Are you questioning the reporting? Or are you just flapping your gums?
I just think you are trying to assign the mentioned “accomplishments” of republicans to a party, as opposed to it being a north-south thing (which it most definately is)
North was anti-slavery, south was pro. North was pro civil rights, south was against them regardless of party.
Okay, and the South was majority Democratic. Great. Historically, the promotion of coal mining was always listed as, and was, a Democrat accomplishment, but it was definitely a regional thing. Yet, it was still a Democratic thing even though many Republicans supported the cause. So what? That hasn’t worked out too well either…
I dont know anything about the whole dems/coal mining thing so I can’t comment on that. I am just rejecting to your calls of republicans being the party of civil rights/ending slavery as it is a bold claim at best when you realistically look at it.
In general parties claiming things from that long ago is stupid, in politics/business/etc all that stuff is rather silly.
When the perspective is maybe from one voting cycle, like yours, it’s probably hard to argue that point.
So democrats are responsible for global warming? Those bastards.
Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. He did a lot to stop slavery.
+1, Yayyywork’s youth and inexperience shows.
So wait are all you guys still trying to claim the Republican party is the party that ended slavery & was pushing civil rights without and sort of side note that the parties of today are nothing like the parties of those times? Because that is an incredibly skewed view of history that while technically correct would be leading one to incorrect assumptions.
Interesting, Republicans telling Democrats that they are the true racists…