Damn American Culture, It's All About the 'Latino' Vote By Warner Todd Huston
Michael Gerson of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the one time "conscience of the White House", presents the perfect it's-all-about-winning stance that some Republicans of the Karl Rove wing of the GOP adheres to in this current amnesty for illegals conflict. The idea is that if the GOP is seen as responsible for letting illegals become automatic citizens with little impediment to their attaining that status this will make these immigrants grateful enough to vote Republican and secure a GOP electoral victory for the foreseeable future.
Gerson's rationale can be seen in his Washington Post article of May 25th, but, unfortunately, Gerson's is both a cynical and unsafe stance to take. Cynical because it reduces the whole episode to be about nothing but getting votes and unsafe because it is a self-destructive, society destroying move to make the argument into a mere vote mongering scheme.
Gerson's column starts off with a lament about "anti-immigrant sentiments" in 1882 and goes on to finger point at a current "certain kind of conservative" that we have today who he imagines must be just as racist as our hundred twenty-five year-old kin ostensibly were.
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