Once In A While The Left Almost Seems To Get It

Hardball: Buchanan and Maddow on Illegal Immigration

They quote David Sirota,

And nobody asks the taboo question: What is illegal immigration actually about?

The answer is exploitation.

Employers looking to maximize profits want an economically desperate, politically disenfranchised population that will accept ever worse pay and working conditions.

Illegal immigrants perfectly fit the bill.

Can’t make it any clearer than that, can you?

It’s all about flooding the labor market at the bottom with exceptionally hungry and needy people.

But then like so many drugged zombies they go off on their standard bullshit about race.

Nicole writes,

John Amato and I have had a lot of conversations about illegal immigration lately.

Unlike Rahm Emanuel, who–most frighteningly–thinks Dems must move to the right of Republicans on this issue, I really think it’s a third rail for progressives, because they get sucked into playing defense on what boils down to a lot of reactionary Republican Fear of Brown People.

If the only guy standing at the border yelling “Lock this thing down!” was Jefferson Davis with a swastika tattooed on his f-ing forehead and a Confederate battle flag tattooed on his ass he would still be right.

Immigration is a Wall Street Republican tactic to crush the working class of America.

That the immigrants are mostly racially and linguistically different from most American workers is just a bonus for Wall Street, as these factors work today as they have always worked to hinder and subvert the political unity of American workers.

Immigration is a Democratic Party ploy to flood the country with more non-white and exceptionally hungry, and hence (they hope) Democratic, voters.

Illegal immigration is best for Wall Street, just as DS explains.

Legal immigration is best for the Democrats as it's easier to channel legal Hispanics into the voting booth.

Absolutely no low wage immigration is good for the workers and ordinary people of America.

Economists will tell you sure as shit if you flood a market with a given commodity the unit price will fall.

What amazing contortions economists go through to prove to us that drowning the market in a flood of bottom-scraping labor is a unique exception to that rule!

And I tell you what.

You wave that red race cape in front of a liberal and he just goes blind crazy, the dumbest damned bull in Pamplona.

And it works the same way in Europe where the left sides with non-white Muslim immigrants who murder their women, stone homosexuals, and mean to impose Islamic law against runaway Muslim women's rights activists and homosexuals who have to flee into the arms of the right for any hope of protection!