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Indy Texas
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« on: September 22, 2014, 08:44:01 PM »

It doesn't help when one of your party leaders claims that unemployed people are out of work because they'd "rather just sit around."
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Indy Texas
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« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2014, 08:40:51 PM »

I'm skeptical that the GOP can appeal to immigrants like the Canadian Tories or NZ's National Party can. The immigrants to both of those countries have a much higher % of "natural conservatives" since they are more Asian and have higher incomes compared to the largely Hispanic immigrants to America.

It's worth comparing America's Asian populations to Canada's.

A lot of Asian-Americans are not first-, second- or even third-generation immigrants. Their ancestors came here in the 19th and early 20th century to perform menial work building railroads and doing laundry. Their economic ascendancy was analogous to that of groups like the Irish, but unlike "white ethnics" they, perhaps because of their obviously non-Caucasian physical appearance and non-Christianity, did not socially "become white" the way Irish, Italians and Poles gradually did.

The relatively recent Asian immigrants are arguably more receptive to the Republican Party. They didn't come here to do grunt work like the 19th century immigrants did. They're either highly educated "model minorities" or they're coming to join family that already lives here and often are successful business owners. And many of them are Christian - particularly the Korean-Americans.

Immigrants from the Indian Subcontinent are a harder sell for Republicans. Many of them grew up in India at a time when it was very socialist but also a democracy, so they don't associate Leftist economics with oppression the way Russian, European or East Asian immigrants might. And when you are from or spent a considerable amount of time in a country where poverty is commonplace and very visible, it's hard not to believe the government ought to do more to help people out of poverty. And a culture that still has a high degree of socioeconomic determinism via the caste system probably isn't going to buy the Republican mantra of, "Anyone can become a multimillionaire and if they're poor it's because they're lazy and not trying hard enough."
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Indy Texas
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« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2014, 08:36:25 PM »


Prove me wrong. Show me examples of Democrats fighting to stop generational theft. Find examples of Democrats trying to reduce the incredible tax rates within the welfare system or examples of Democrats defeating paternalistic non-cash benefit systems. Show me examples of Democrats working to eliminate the inherent inequality caused by graduated tax bracket systems. Identify a circumstance in which the war on poverty actually produced a sustainable long-term result.

I've been looking for years. As far as I can tell, Democrats are only interested in raising taxes on the wealthy to redistribute money to the people who are adversely affected by Democratic policies. The disease of legislative inequality compounds its growth rate.

The Social Security program has dramatically reduced poverty rates among those over 65.

Our food stamp program is considered one of the most successful and beneficial in-kind benefit programs, even by many conservatives.
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