To Barack Obama, illegal immigrants are fruit-pickers and bedpan washers. To John McCain, they’re lettuce-pickers. To Hillary Clinton, illegal immigrants are busboys and dishwashers. To Karl Rove, they are the people who pick tomatoes and make up beds so his kids won’t have to.
But it’s not just illegal immigrants they see as menial laborers; beneath the high stations they have gotten for themselves. Think about this; all of these people — and most of the economic and political “Elite” in the United States — would like to hand out American citizenship like library cards to anyone who crossed the border. It means nothing to them. They don’t hold American citizenship in much esteem because they don’t hold American citizens in much esteem, as the remarks of Mr. Jonathan Gruber have revealed.
They know that importing millions of unit of cheap foreign labor will negatively impact the wages of American workers. They don’t care, and they lie about it, “If you like your middle class lifestyle, you can keep your middle class lifestyle,” they reassure us. The elite don’t care because they don’t see illegal immigrant labor affecting them or their class in any negative way. They see no difference between illegal immigrants and working class Americans — except, in the words of an aide to Senator Marco Rubio. “American workers can’t cut it.” To the Gentry, all of us who aren’t them might as well be fruit-pickers, lettuce-pickers, busboys, linen launderers — peasants to be ruled over by members of the Lucky Sperm Club.
The system the progressives most admire is the People’s Republic of China; a political elite wields absolute power, which they use to elevate friends and cronies to positions of wealth and status provided they profess unyielding loyalty to the party. And middle class is defined as having a 200 square foot apartment in a Proletarian rabbit warren.
Update: In California, Democrats are giving the Chinese model a trial run.
What is really crazy is leftists thinking that illegals given citizenship will be anything but a tax burden. They will legally be able to get the child tax credits and welfare that they have to commit fraud to get now. If they pretend to care about income equality they must stop importing more people on the very bottom.
Oh Steve, the bigger the income inequality, the bigger the problem the politicians can exploit. And the more people availing themselves of our generous welfare benefits, the more people who will vote for the Democrats, the better to keep the benefits coming. Not to mention Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals fourth rule, “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.” The more welfare, the quicker America’s downfall.
I don’t quite understand why the Republicans aren’t a little more anti-illegal-immigration, though. Because having a majority and a little responsibility in Congress is too, too frightening?