04-13-2024, 01:26 PM
While I appreciate your thoughtful comment, I think in some aspects you have slid into both-sides-ism.
Take immigration. Biden sent a proposed immigration reform to Congress the first day of his presidency. Republicans vowed to stop it. More recently, we had a tripartisan compromise immigration reform bill hammered out between Republicans, Dems, and Independents in the Senate. Trump decreed it had to be killed (for pure political advantage), and it was.
Trump issued some executive orders during his presidency that single-handedly, unilaterally affected immigration policy, against our long-standing treaty obligations but which were accepted in the context of a deadly worldwide viral pandemic. When that pandemic waned, private groups sued to stop the policy and a district court agreed with them. The SCOTUS overturned that. When Red states sued to continue Title 42, the same SCOTUS wouldn’t take that case. :dunno:
Ignoring it is the last thing Biden and the left are doing. They’ve tried, again and again, for that “orderly approach” that you - that all people of good faith desire. And they’ve run into a stiff arm of the Right, whose position is Close the border, period. Practically, this could never happen - it would shut down one of our top international trading partners/markets, which Republicans would never allow. Nor will they agree to more resources for enforcement. They’d rather just grandstand.
Many of your other points are well made; some are head-scratchers. (Literally no American politician of either side is proposing dictating family size - American families are, on average, freely choosing to have fewer children, which may well lead to a demographic crisis if we were to shut down immigration).
But what you imagine as a unyielding crust on both sides of your PB+J is almost entirely on the Right. Their side is so full of rigid, unyielding ideologues that they literally can’t govern. They’re tied into knots. They can’t even agree on a Speaker (other than a de-facto one who is objectively a serial liar, law-breaker, adulterer and sexual assaulter). There are leftist politicians as well, yet somehow when the Dems had a slight majority in the House, normal business got done. And anyone calling Biden a leftist is just drinking MAGA kool-aid.
One of these crusts is not like the other.
Take immigration. Biden sent a proposed immigration reform to Congress the first day of his presidency. Republicans vowed to stop it. More recently, we had a tripartisan compromise immigration reform bill hammered out between Republicans, Dems, and Independents in the Senate. Trump decreed it had to be killed (for pure political advantage), and it was.
Trump issued some executive orders during his presidency that single-handedly, unilaterally affected immigration policy, against our long-standing treaty obligations but which were accepted in the context of a deadly worldwide viral pandemic. When that pandemic waned, private groups sued to stop the policy and a district court agreed with them. The SCOTUS overturned that. When Red states sued to continue Title 42, the same SCOTUS wouldn’t take that case. :dunno:
Ignoring it is the last thing Biden and the left are doing. They’ve tried, again and again, for that “orderly approach” that you - that all people of good faith desire. And they’ve run into a stiff arm of the Right, whose position is Close the border, period. Practically, this could never happen - it would shut down one of our top international trading partners/markets, which Republicans would never allow. Nor will they agree to more resources for enforcement. They’d rather just grandstand.
Many of your other points are well made; some are head-scratchers. (Literally no American politician of either side is proposing dictating family size - American families are, on average, freely choosing to have fewer children, which may well lead to a demographic crisis if we were to shut down immigration).
But what you imagine as a unyielding crust on both sides of your PB+J is almost entirely on the Right. Their side is so full of rigid, unyielding ideologues that they literally can’t govern. They’re tied into knots. They can’t even agree on a Speaker (other than a de-facto one who is objectively a serial liar, law-breaker, adulterer and sexual assaulter). There are leftist politicians as well, yet somehow when the Dems had a slight majority in the House, normal business got done. And anyone calling Biden a leftist is just drinking MAGA kool-aid.
One of these crusts is not like the other.