• @Telodzrum
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    -624 days ago

    An important party of governing is listening to constituents. They border is the second highest concern of voters (behind the economy) and an overwhelming majority want stricter border controls. Being a good public servant involves listening to the public.

    • @[email protected]
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      1624 days ago

      So, the Democrats don’t listen to the majority of voters when they want free education, Medicare for All, or an arms embargo on Israel, but when it comes to stricter border controls, they’re all ears for some reason.

      • KillingTimeItself
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        124 days ago

        but when it comes to stricter border controls, they’re all ears for some reason.

        well there’s a really obvious reason for this one.

        Currently the border asylum processing chain is incredibly swamped, up the point of multiple years of backlog, which is why temporary status citizens are a thing. Though not to the same degree as the UK. The whole point behind border control and immigration policy is to fix this problem, actually push the asylum cases for these people through, and get them real citizenship (or not, and get rid of them, that’s how it works.)

        This is arguably a human rights issue.

        So, the Democrats don’t listen to the majority of voters when they want free education,

        we have free state education, primary education only though. Republicans want to get rid of this, i don’t think you’ll see kamala harris saying she doesn’t want it. Though free secondary education is obviously the implication here, i figure it’s worth pointing out.

        Medicare for All

        biden has done numerous things for healthcare in his term. Same for obama, though again, not universal socialized healthcare, so not really the implication but it’s worth noting.

        or an arms embargo on Israel

        i’m not going to talk much about this because i keep getting banned over these topics for some reason. But idk how much popular support there is for this one, i haven’t looked at polling, i wouldn’t be surprised if it was a popular position though. That very well might be the case, however if you’re asking why the US is supporting Israel, the answer is that it’s militarily strategic. That’s the unfortunate but real answer there.

    • @GreatRam
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      1524 days ago

      It’s bc the Republicans are fear mongering about the border 24/7

    • OBJECTION!
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      924 days ago

      Which polls show an “overwhelming majority” want stricter borders? Source please.

      Tbh I expect that some people are more hawkish on the border now than before because the Democrats switched tacts, and not the other way around, but regardless I haven’t seen any evidence that shows what you’re claiming.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 days ago

      The libs who now support republican policies from 2016 only changed their tune when the democrats started endorsing those policies and their media started telling them they were good actually.

      They will believe what MSNBC tells them to believe.

      I watched the same thing happen in real time during 2020 when “give police more training” become “defund the police” became “fund the police” in like 3 months, and under Obama when he expanded Bush’s wars in the middle east and legitimized spying, things I thought everyone except the republicans agreed were bad.