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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Bigger Than Immigration" by Charles M. Blow at the NY Times
Bigger Than Immigrationby Charles M. Blow at the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/opinion/charles-blow-bigger-than-immigration.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0
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Dont let yourself get lost in the weeds. Dont allow yourself to believe that opposition to President Obamas executive actions on immigration is only about that issue, the presidents tactics, or his lack of obsequiousness to his detractors.
This hostility and animosity toward this president is, in fact, larger than this president. This is about systems of power and the power of symbols. Particularly, it is about preserving traditional power and destroying emerging symbols that threaten that power. This president is simply the embodiment of the threat, as far as his detractors are concerned, whether they are willing or able to articulate it as such.
A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll last week found that the public wants immigration policy along the lines of what President Barack Obama seeks but is skeptical of the executive action. When The Journal looked at some of the people who say they want to see a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants which is beyond what Mr. Obamas executive order would do but say they disapprove of presidential executive action, it found that the group was overwhelmingly white and more likely to be Republican than not and some said that they simply dont like anything associated with the president.
Pay attention to the overall response from all sources, particularly the rhetoric in which it is wrapped.
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"Bigger Than Immigration" by Charles M. Blow at the NY Times (Original Post)
applegrove
Nov 2014
OP
applegrove
(118,682 posts)1. The GOP is fighting to keep its base from connecting with Obama. All to preserve the Southern
Strategy as a viable strategy. Which would not happen so much if people were let to connect with a very likeable President who happens to be black.
enough
(13,259 posts)2. k&r (nt)