by Guest » 02 Oct 2021, 03:13
Guest wrote: ↑02 Oct 2021, 02:28
Anon 5 wrote: ↑02 Oct 2021, 00:22
Biden has actually done a pretty strong job.
Withdrawal from Afghanistan finally done and by the deadline that prevented a return to combat with the Taliban. Over 4000 Americans and tens of thousands of Afghanistan citizens had died. That the focus becomes 13 Americans dying in the last days is fascinating considering seemingly no attention was paid by those pushing the war as thousands of Americans died.
Relief package was pushed through.
Climate has actually become a focus.
Keystone pipeline was shut down.
Gigantic Covid-19 vaccination rollout was done.
Now he is attempting to get an infrastructure bill through and get rid of the Grover Nyquist pushed tax cuts for the wealthy (that Trump and the GOP pushed through and which only help the wealthy).
The main problems with our economy exist thanks to the GOP's 50 year war on the Middle class and laborers which has been designed solely to make wealthy people more money through destroying worker rights and has seen environmental devastation (the reason the Koch brothers pay so much to the GOP is so they will push as much deregulation of the fossil fuel industry as possible).
Biden's main problem so far is the border but that has been a problem for several Presidents and the reality is no wall (a cowardly symbol if ever there was one) does anything about America being seen as a country that welcomes refugees (even as the right has killed off that rep in America over the last several decades).
Spot on, especially the bold. They have killed off the understanding we had that it is not the refugees that will make us strong, but the children of those refugees that are assimilated.
Too many people think the children of the refugees will not assimilate and want the type of life they had elsewhere, which makes no sense since they are so desperate to get here. How they won that propaganda battle I will never know, it isn't logical. A miniscule proportion that do not assimilate is nothing compared to those that are productive citizens and wonderful Americans. I hear many people, otherwise normally logical people, get on this hate the immigrants band wagon.
Da
About that last part. From my experience, some of that view is because of some (not even new immigrants, but children and grandchildren of immigrants) who flaunt allegiance to another country. We have a lot of that here. They don’t call themselves American. They are (name the country their family came from).
I come from an immigrant family and I’m an American (not the Repug kind).
Sometimes people’s political concerns or views are based on what’s actually going on around them as opposed to what the tv or radio are blabbing.
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[quote="Anon 5" post_id=3849976 time=1633134169]
Biden has actually done a pretty strong job.
Withdrawal from Afghanistan finally done and by the deadline that prevented a return to combat with the Taliban. Over 4000 Americans and tens of thousands of Afghanistan citizens had died. That the focus becomes 13 Americans dying in the last days is fascinating considering seemingly no attention was paid by those pushing the war as thousands of Americans died.
Relief package was pushed through.
Climate has actually become a focus.
Keystone pipeline was shut down.
Gigantic Covid-19 vaccination rollout was done.
Now he is attempting to get an infrastructure bill through and get rid of the Grover Nyquist pushed tax cuts for the wealthy (that Trump and the GOP pushed through and which only help the wealthy).
[b]The main problems with our economy exist thanks to the GOP's 50 year war on the Middle class and laborers which has been designed solely to make wealthy people more money through destroying worker rights and has seen environmental devastation (the reason the Koch brothers pay so much to the GOP is so they will push as much deregulation of the fossil fuel industry as possible).
Biden's main problem so far is the border but that has been a problem for several Presidents and the reality is no wall (a cowardly symbol if ever there was one) does anything about America being seen as a country that welcomes refugees (even as the right has killed off that rep in America over the last several decades).[/b]
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Spot on, especially the bold. They have killed off the understanding we had that it is not the refugees that will make us strong, but the children of those refugees that are assimilated. [b]Too many people think the children of the refugees will not assimilate and want the type of life they had elsewhere, which makes no sense since they are so desperate to get here. How they won that propaganda battle I will never know, it isn't logical. A miniscule proportion that do not assimilate is nothing compared to those that are productive citizens and wonderful Americans. I hear many people, otherwise normally logical people, get on this hate the immigrants band wagon.[/b]
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Da
About that last part. From my experience, some of that view is because of some (not even new immigrants, but children and grandchildren of immigrants) who flaunt allegiance to another country. We have a lot of that here. They don’t call themselves American. They are (name the country their family came from).
I come from an immigrant family and I’m an American (not the Repug kind).
Sometimes people’s political concerns or views are based on what’s actually going on around them as opposed to what the tv or radio are blabbing.