Really interesting result about anti-immigrant voters feeling a loss of urgency about that issue once "their" people get into power. This suggests they're more motivated by the issue as a means of gaining power, rather than any sincere concern.
You see that here in US, with many Republicans strongly opposed to any immigration deal because they want the issue, they want the crisis, much more than they'd want any policies that might respond to the crisis.
The question I would have for anyone caught up in the current anti-immigrant hysteria is "In what way has this new influx of immigrants hurt you, personally, or your quality of life?" Sure, if you're managing a homeless shelter in NYC or Chicago, this is truly a crisis for you. But how has a farmer in Iowa seen any negative effects from it? So if the farmer in Iowa is worked up into a rage about it, maybe it's because he sees that rage as being in service to his "team", the Republicans.
downward pressure on wages, fentanyl deaths, human / sexual trafficking, potential terrorist threats, health threats; overwhelmed local school, health facilities come to mind.
Unlikely. The immigrants are not working yet. I have many in my Chicago neighborhood. They beg a lot. Your other range of horrors sounds really racist and false.
So, do I understand you correctly? "unlikely" to be downward pressure on wages with the influx of 11m immigrants because, in your neighborhood at least, "they beg a lot". Mexican cartels don't really smuggle drugs and engage in human/sexual trafficking. None of the 11 million or so could possibly have some contagious disease or nefarious plans. Border state schools and hospitals are not overwhelmed, even though that's what they ALL told RFK Jr. when he spend days down there. And to him they looked overwhelmed. So where do these assertions come from? Oh . . . racist fantasy.
Also, just look at this racist "poisoning the blood" shit about "infectious diseases." Of course, plain ol' American citizens get sick all the time from infectious diseases, we just had a Covid pandemic that killed more than a million people, plus there's TB, RSV, seasonal flu and now even measles outbreaks because idiot parents won't get their kids vaccinated. But Oh My God, an immigrant has measles SHUT DOWN THE BORDER. The psychology on display here is so obvious and disgusting.
1. Republicans don't give a shit about worker's wages, especially the wages of workers at the bottom, they make that clear anyone does anything to try to help those workers, like raising the minimum wage or making it easier to form a union. But they're happy to PRETEND to care about low-wage workers if they can use it as a stick to beat immigrants with.
2. Republicans don't care at all about people suffering from addiction, they never want to spend a dime on treatment or supportive housing for drug-addicted homeless people. But they're happy to PRETEND to care about drug addiction if they can use it as a stick to beat immigrants with.
3. Republicans don't care at all about the state of our public schools, never want to spend a dime on them, but they're happy to PRETEND to care about schools if they can use it as a stick to beat immigrants with.
See a pattern here? NOTHING these people say should be taken seriously, because THEY don't seriously believe the things they say (except for the hating immigrants part.)
I have the idea that there is an archetypal pattern saying: if times are threatening or problematic, less people want to be responsible, as is really the demand in a democracy, and more people want to have a strong leader, to have someone to blame when things go wrong.
Really surprising that Italy is not more worried about immigration, but consistent with the extreme right in power.
That said, everything you mention is international. It's clear that Europe is virtually alone in acceptance of shared destinies alongside commitments to shared obligations. The most durable punching bag of the American right, in fact, is globalist, which is on the spectrum between rational and anti–nationalist…a pretty, pretty good place to be!
There's a thing where people fall so far into conspiratorial thinking that they're no longer able to communicate with normal humans in language normal humans can understand. I wonder if that's happening here?
Thanks as always for this newsletter, Adam! FYI your links to Chartbook 260 and 261 are to inaccessible private versions of these posts, presumably the ones that you are able to edit.
Really interesting result about anti-immigrant voters feeling a loss of urgency about that issue once "their" people get into power. This suggests they're more motivated by the issue as a means of gaining power, rather than any sincere concern.
You see that here in US, with many Republicans strongly opposed to any immigration deal because they want the issue, they want the crisis, much more than they'd want any policies that might respond to the crisis.
The question I would have for anyone caught up in the current anti-immigrant hysteria is "In what way has this new influx of immigrants hurt you, personally, or your quality of life?" Sure, if you're managing a homeless shelter in NYC or Chicago, this is truly a crisis for you. But how has a farmer in Iowa seen any negative effects from it? So if the farmer in Iowa is worked up into a rage about it, maybe it's because he sees that rage as being in service to his "team", the Republicans.
downward pressure on wages, fentanyl deaths, human / sexual trafficking, potential terrorist threats, health threats; overwhelmed local school, health facilities come to mind.
Like I said, hysteria.
Look at this, "fentanyl super-labs" in CANADA. But that doesn't fit the racist narrative, does it?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/12/24/fentanyl-labs-canada-threat-to-us/
One lab, 25 kgs, the more you post the more racist you sound.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fentanyl-drug-lab-police-seizure-mission-bc-1.7016534
Please stay home, hugs, Canada
Yeah, totally racist against Canadians. Buncha poutine-eatin' hockey thugs.
Unlikely. The immigrants are not working yet. I have many in my Chicago neighborhood. They beg a lot. Your other range of horrors sounds really racist and false.
So, do I understand you correctly? "unlikely" to be downward pressure on wages with the influx of 11m immigrants because, in your neighborhood at least, "they beg a lot". Mexican cartels don't really smuggle drugs and engage in human/sexual trafficking. None of the 11 million or so could possibly have some contagious disease or nefarious plans. Border state schools and hospitals are not overwhelmed, even though that's what they ALL told RFK Jr. when he spend days down there. And to him they looked overwhelmed. So where do these assertions come from? Oh . . . racist fantasy.
wooohooo. No you understand little, probably not even 2+2
Also, just look at this racist "poisoning the blood" shit about "infectious diseases." Of course, plain ol' American citizens get sick all the time from infectious diseases, we just had a Covid pandemic that killed more than a million people, plus there's TB, RSV, seasonal flu and now even measles outbreaks because idiot parents won't get their kids vaccinated. But Oh My God, an immigrant has measles SHUT DOWN THE BORDER. The psychology on display here is so obvious and disgusting.
1. Republicans don't give a shit about worker's wages, especially the wages of workers at the bottom, they make that clear anyone does anything to try to help those workers, like raising the minimum wage or making it easier to form a union. But they're happy to PRETEND to care about low-wage workers if they can use it as a stick to beat immigrants with.
2. Republicans don't care at all about people suffering from addiction, they never want to spend a dime on treatment or supportive housing for drug-addicted homeless people. But they're happy to PRETEND to care about drug addiction if they can use it as a stick to beat immigrants with.
3. Republicans don't care at all about the state of our public schools, never want to spend a dime on them, but they're happy to PRETEND to care about schools if they can use it as a stick to beat immigrants with.
See a pattern here? NOTHING these people say should be taken seriously, because THEY don't seriously believe the things they say (except for the hating immigrants part.)
I have the idea that there is an archetypal pattern saying: if times are threatening or problematic, less people want to be responsible, as is really the demand in a democracy, and more people want to have a strong leader, to have someone to blame when things go wrong.
Really surprising that Italy is not more worried about immigration, but consistent with the extreme right in power.
That said, everything you mention is international. It's clear that Europe is virtually alone in acceptance of shared destinies alongside commitments to shared obligations. The most durable punching bag of the American right, in fact, is globalist, which is on the spectrum between rational and anti–nationalist…a pretty, pretty good place to be!
The 5 crises may have a common source: US policy makers.
Who invaded Ukraine?
Nuland via 2014 putch
There's a thing where people fall so far into conspiratorial thinking that they're no longer able to communicate with normal humans in language normal humans can understand. I wonder if that's happening here?
Thanks as always for this newsletter, Adam! FYI your links to Chartbook 260 and 261 are to inaccessible private versions of these posts, presumably the ones that you are able to edit.