Truly it is hard to say. I am 61 as well. Have you ever met any illegal immigrants? Or have you made friends with recent immigrants? I have - all kinds. And frankly I find the latest trend of Xenophobia appalling. Most immigrants illegal or not, have more solid family & community values and work ethic than most Americans. I am 61 and prefer to see the beauty of the melting pot- and not be taken in by divisive hafe-mongering so I can be blindly manipulated by the corporate classes that run both the parties.
LOL! Leela, I live in Toronto! I live in an, as near as I can determine, an all-immigrant neighbourhood! Including myself! :) I know a whackload of immigrants. I've often joked that if I wanted to be a white racist it would be extremely hard here, because then I could only hang around with my fellow white people, and I don't know enough ;)
I don't know if any of my fellow immigrants are illegal. That's a rude question to ask others and it's not my job to do Canada immigration's job for them. I've only ever known one and she was a friend of mine who lived somewhere other than North America. She sure as hell wasn't planning to blow up her adopted country. Maybe introduce Mardi Gras :)
I believe immigrants should be legal. And we need to make sure *all* immigrants can live, work, and assimilate at least somewhat here. That means living by our laws and customs and if it's okay to do something in your country (i.e., beat your wife), it's NOT okay here. I'm with you on the melting pot part (obviously, I'm an American). And I'm with multiculturalism (obviously, I'm a Canadian. Dual citizen, native American). My ideal society is a hybrid between the two.
I entirely agree that extreme Right MAGA and Extreme Left Progressives are 2 sides of the same culty coin.
One thing though - Trump did NOT win a mandate. At the present - Donald Trump won 49.8% of the popular vote (77,284,118 votes), while Kamala Harris secured 48.3% (74,999,166 votes) and approximately 3 million voters (2.13% of the total vote) chose third-party or independent candidates. So MORE people voted against Trump than for him. A 1.5 % advantage of Trump against Harris - is hardly a mandate.
And so many ignorantly chose Trump due to economic concerns - when Trump's mismanagement was the origin of the bad economy, he has vowed to place tariffs on all imports by 20 to 25 per cent, deport those who pick our food and butcher our meat - all of which will FAR outweigh the inflation that we have been dealing with. Once these people see the cost-of-living sky-rocket rather than plummet, that paltry 1.5% will go poof.
I don’t know if you can say ‘more voted against him than for him’. How do you know those third-party/indy candidates weren’t anti-Harris votes? Or anti-they’re-both-fucked votes?
I agree with you on the economics piece, yeah, Trump’s going to be hell on the economy, but so were Biden’s illegal immigrants and the crime spike they brought - especially sex trafficking. Biden was good for the economy, but, unfortunately, much better for the criminal economy. And immigrants HAVE contributed to the spike in crime - the poor homeless lady set fire to in NYC last week was murdered by one of Biden’s buddies. These two parties offered the worst goddamn candidates I’ve ever seen, and I’m 61 years old. It was like, dumb-as-shit or woke-as-shit? Which one is smarter? Which one will wreak the least amount of damage to the country? Which one is slightly less authoritarian?
Truly it is hard to say. I am 61 as well. Have you ever met any illegal immigrants? Or have you made friends with recent immigrants? I have - all kinds. And frankly I find the latest trend of Xenophobia appalling. Most immigrants illegal or not, have more solid family & community values and work ethic than most Americans. I am 61 and prefer to see the beauty of the melting pot- and not be taken in by divisive hafe-mongering so I can be blindly manipulated by the corporate classes that run both the parties.
LOL! Leela, I live in Toronto! I live in an, as near as I can determine, an all-immigrant neighbourhood! Including myself! :) I know a whackload of immigrants. I've often joked that if I wanted to be a white racist it would be extremely hard here, because then I could only hang around with my fellow white people, and I don't know enough ;)
I don't know if any of my fellow immigrants are illegal. That's a rude question to ask others and it's not my job to do Canada immigration's job for them. I've only ever known one and she was a friend of mine who lived somewhere other than North America. She sure as hell wasn't planning to blow up her adopted country. Maybe introduce Mardi Gras :)
I believe immigrants should be legal. And we need to make sure *all* immigrants can live, work, and assimilate at least somewhat here. That means living by our laws and customs and if it's okay to do something in your country (i.e., beat your wife), it's NOT okay here. I'm with you on the melting pot part (obviously, I'm an American). And I'm with multiculturalism (obviously, I'm a Canadian. Dual citizen, native American). My ideal society is a hybrid between the two.
I entirely agree that extreme Right MAGA and Extreme Left Progressives are 2 sides of the same culty coin.
One thing though - Trump did NOT win a mandate. At the present - Donald Trump won 49.8% of the popular vote (77,284,118 votes), while Kamala Harris secured 48.3% (74,999,166 votes) and approximately 3 million voters (2.13% of the total vote) chose third-party or independent candidates. So MORE people voted against Trump than for him. A 1.5 % advantage of Trump against Harris - is hardly a mandate.
And so many ignorantly chose Trump due to economic concerns - when Trump's mismanagement was the origin of the bad economy, he has vowed to place tariffs on all imports by 20 to 25 per cent, deport those who pick our food and butcher our meat - all of which will FAR outweigh the inflation that we have been dealing with. Once these people see the cost-of-living sky-rocket rather than plummet, that paltry 1.5% will go poof.
I don’t know if you can say ‘more voted against him than for him’. How do you know those third-party/indy candidates weren’t anti-Harris votes? Or anti-they’re-both-fucked votes?
I agree with you on the economics piece, yeah, Trump’s going to be hell on the economy, but so were Biden’s illegal immigrants and the crime spike they brought - especially sex trafficking. Biden was good for the economy, but, unfortunately, much better for the criminal economy. And immigrants HAVE contributed to the spike in crime - the poor homeless lady set fire to in NYC last week was murdered by one of Biden’s buddies. These two parties offered the worst goddamn candidates I’ve ever seen, and I’m 61 years old. It was like, dumb-as-shit or woke-as-shit? Which one is smarter? Which one will wreak the least amount of damage to the country? Which one is slightly less authoritarian?