So here's this thread in a nutshell: two groups, one hating everything Obama does, the other loving everything Obama does, screaming at each other, using the federal lawsuit against Arizona as a pretext.
neither is speaking for the majority of Americans, who voted for Obama (for healthcare reform, fiscal reform, and to stop the Republicans from looting the treasury), but who oppose illegal immigration and support Arizona's implementation of Federal immigration law.
WE are the majority. We oppose illegal immigration and amnesty for illegal aliens. But we're glad we voted for Obama, because he is carrying through on those other things, as much as someone can under the circumstances.
But we are certainly disappointed in Obama's move against Arizona, and consider it mainly political--trolling for the votes of American citizens who refer to themselves as "Mexican" (not even "Mexican-American," according to a Pew poll).
Yet we will probably vote for him again in 2012, and for many/most Congressional Democrats this year, because even though the Democratic Party leadership's ethnic group advocacy is a bone in our collective throat, what the Republican leadership has done to us and promises to continue doing to us is even worse.
The fact is that neither major party--nor any minor one--truly represents the majority of the American people. We are not their constituents, actually.
Both parties are beholden--to various degrees--to special interests with big money or big voting blocs.
So the American majority isn't in love with either party. We just do the best we can with what we've got. That's why we often vote in governors of the party that's in the minority in the state legislature.
This lawsuit is a case in point. The American majority doesn't like the hard-right majority of the Supreme Court, put in place by several Republican presidents.
But if SCOTUS slaps down this lawsuit we'll be grateful for that.
Those of the majority who are registered Democrats should contact our Congressional reps and tell them how much we believe this lawsuit is a waste of taxpayer money and a subversion of the DOJ.
But even on this issue, don't think we'll be fooled by Republican tirades. It was the Republican Party leadership that almost passed "comprehensive immigration reform" during the Bush II reign, and was only stopped by a revolt of the rank and file. Yet Republican voters continue to fall for their leaders' lies today.
The Republican politicos keep telling us to forget what they actually did when they were in power, and only listen to what they say now, when they can't do anything about it. Talk is cheap, isn't it?
We don't get fooled again.
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