It is so hard to understand what the GOP is proposing as solutions to the problems facing us today. I suppose their position on immigration is the clearest, simply stop it, but how they would do that is vague. Build a wall wouldn't help much based on studies and many come here legally and never go back. I suppose they want to spend lots of money raiding places to find them and send them back. It would be expensive and disruptive and it wouldn't solve the problem. The Democratic solution is to treat them fairly, allow those fleeing oppression entry and deny undesirables, and providing the newcomers a path to citizenship over time. Basically the same policies this country grew on.
Would the additional diversity hurt or help? We are built on the diversity of the past and it will keep our society both fair and vibrant. If however your goal is to keep the country white and Christian it may look like a problem.
We also have a number of areas that may or may not be significant problems. Take crime. We saw some increase but it may already be reversing. If you listen to right wing media it is because we have become soft on crime and are letting criminals our of prisons too early. I haven't seen any evidence of that but its what they consider a good scare tactic. They are more interested in scaring voters than being honest, hoping they can take more seats and add disfunction to the Government.
We haven't had the recession they claimed we would so they are now saying inflation is going to destroy us. Is it? We haven't seen that much of it yet and what we have seen is pretty explainable as the economy booms and some items go into short supply. Yes some things are higher but we aren't looking at a crisis unless you watch propaganda media.
I know Republicans are talking about the disasters impacting us, while they mostly ignore the biggest ones, climate change and income disparity. Those don't serve their purpose and they won't help with the solutions.
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