Do You Believe in the 'Great Replacement Theory'?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

To some extent, this isn't a fringe concept. There has been a common perception "Republicans want cheap labor and Democrats want their votes" and that has been something that I have heard constantly. Once Republicans became defined by Trump and his approach to immigration, the dam burst and a lot of these voters who were either Democrats, disinterested or reluctant Republicans, became Republican base voters.

Now you have the internet and social media, so I would wager this in some form is a mainstream view in rural America at this point.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

     I am indifferent to the prospect, and as such cannot say I have given it much thought. I have a lot more in common with a religious non-white person than I do a secular white person, and if the country ends up looking more like the former and less like the latter then that works for me.

The Reversalist Great Replacement - Conservatives embrace replacement as a means of shifting the country more religious and socially conservative by making it less white.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Anyone who unironically says “yes” is not just a vile racist, but also a braindead moron.

This is the problem with all of the people who are "pro-immigration" now a days. There is a self-righteous and self-assurance that more immigration is always the superior answer morally and thus anyone who disagrees is immoral, regardless of the real and direct consequences such a situation has for them, their families and their livelihoods.

When you let in millions of low skilled labor to flood the low skill job sectors (which were already reeling from outsourcing and than later a housing crash, both the result of actions propagated so the financial sector in places like your state could get wealthy by turning working class people into indentured serfs), then the answers they get from above are "dumb hicks need to learn to code/move/stop being racist", the end result is going to be a hostile reaction and an embrace of extreme politicians and irresponsible media crap stirrers who lack a moral compass beyond self-enrichment.

You then wonder why they hate the establishment and follow the first nutcase off a cliff that says what they want to hear.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

You're deflecting.

Must you people personalize every critical analysis?

I am not here to be "cross examined" on a "guilty until proven innocent basis".  What the hell I am deflecting from? I have routinely condemned racialized approaches to policy considerations and ethnic/race based nationalism.

The question of the poll was not whether "immigration is always the superior answer morally", but whether you believe in the Great Replacement Theory. These are two separate issues.

Then why is the same response given to both?

It also is worthy to understand why it is gaining steam in the first place, when more mainstream objections to immigration policy are silence under the "muh racist" response, it yields an opening for the "money seeking media crap stirrers" to ride in and give them an "answer".

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

When a Democrat narrowly wins a race in some sunbelt locale on the backs of immigrant voters, it's given a celebratory article on MSNBC. When a book is written on the so called Emerging Democratic Majority, its given the status of a legitimate theory for over a decade. But when Republicans highlight the same story but with a negative spin, it's called a fringe conspiracy theory, "vile" and "racist". The hypocrisy is so shameless it almost defies belief. Either there is a real disconnect and gaping but genuine lack of self awareness on the center left there, or it is some kind of dishonesty.

The real reason Republicans don't have to worry about this is that Hispanic birth rates have collapsed. The right has turned its attention to a trend ironically at the very moment when it has exhausted itself.

I mean yea, the ultimate source of the "Great Replacement Theory" is a response to the the crowing of the left.

I recall in 2010 era, there was a situation highlighted on conservative talk radio, where a bunch of activists took the "ascendant majority line" and shouted down a tea party protest with basically "Once the demographics catch up to you, its over".

You used to see this gleefully championed on this site and it probably still happens.

So yea, I can totally see that angle.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Yes, but I'm in favor of it.

You mean you believe that it is happening, but that it is a good thing? That still doesn't mean it should be something to celebrate or be afraid of.

I call it the "Reversalist Great Replacement", which is social conservatives want more highly religious minorities to immigrate and displace the voting power of secular white liberals.

So you would condemn the lefties who have embraced it in a "your day is done" kind of way in the past?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Ending capitalism would make many of these points mute, as there would be no incentive to immigrate anywhere with market instability and exploitation lessened.

Right because that is obviously the only motivator for people to escape their current locations.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Ending capitalism would make many of these points mute, as there would be no incentive to immigrate anywhere with market instability and exploitation lessened.

Right because that is obviously the only motivator for people to escape their current locations.

Yes, and anything else is just a byproduct.

So all government tyranny the history of the world over is the result of capitalism?