... the legacy of immigration non-enforcement.Digby points out that the poll was not of new immigrants. It was of voters, most of whom are American born and educated. But this piece of right-wing Republican ignorance certainly explains why immigration reform and a fence across the border between Mexico and the U.S. are such great right-wing priorities.
Essentially Frum complains that young Hispanics and African-America voters detest the Republicans. Does he ask why? Of course not, because the only answer to that is the fact that the Republican Party is the party of institutionalized Racism in America today. Digby provides the evidence, as well as economic studies that show the reason why America does not have the social support system fitting to a modern industrial nation is that very Racism Frum so studiously ignores.
Essentially Frum is lamenting that the vote is not restricted to White Americans only. Digby points out that this very Racism is something that Bush and Rove have tried to wean the Republicans off of, but failed. So it is very likely that the alternative was the Attorney General's DoJ efforts to suppress likely Democratic votes in key states.
Go read Digby for the full details. As usual, her post is worth reading.
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David Frum reacts to Rick Perlstein's explanation of how his view is Racist with puzzlement that Rick's reading skills should have so failed him. He also links to my post and that of Digby as examples of the "overheated" response of the lefty blogosphere.
Go read his post. You will see that he complains that Mexican immigrants will not adopt the extremist right-wing faux Patriotism that he considers necessary to be a true American with the strongest loyalty to this nation. He seems to be saying that Americans are not true Americans until they give total unquestioning loyalty to those who by the accidents and self-serving manipulations of politics occupy leadership positions and that they should never be questioned when their decisions and behavior cease to be effective responses to reality. If I were a good American according to Frum I would ignore the current cast of denizens of the White House and teh manner in which their actions have rather obviously damaged America's long-term future prospects. The clearest way is the manner in which the Bushites led by Cheney have literally been creating new enemies for America to fight out of people who originally wanted nothing more than to build families and careers in their own nations, but feel attacked by Americans.
Since questioning of the effectiveness of the current leadership increases in groups which are predominantly immigrants or first generation or are poor or miniorities, Frum concludes that the problem is that members of those groups are not as good Americans as the ultra-loyal "My country right or wrong" lily-white Republicans.
I guess I am not a good American since I believe in democracy, open government with an absolute minimum of secrets (and even those temporary) and demand acceptable explanations for the decisions and behavior of our government leaders. Of course, it is my opinion that people like David who do NOT take my attitude of trusting government no further than it can be thrown and never trusting government leaders not to steal from us or to stab everyone else in the back are not good Americans.
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