Why the Dems Are Losing Bigly...
Thomas "blah, blah, blah, blah, blah" Edsall is a white man writing college-level thesis' in a daily newspaper, complete with citations and footnotes. "blah, blah, blah" I skim him. Bo-ring. He decides what he wants to say, then collects esteemed others to cite.
Forest, trees...
May I suggest, people's concerns with immigration and the non-vaxxed coming over the borders indeed are related to our current health crisis (is it over yet?). Most Americans see no sense in opening the borders now, when we've barely beaten back Covid here, and the masks are finally coming off.
So call us racists and purists. It's common sense, Tom. "Pack 'em in, pack 'em in, let me begin*..."
If you wealthy white folk don't live it, don't tell us we have to. Mask while being packed in closer and closer with the new workers of your choice, who have no citizenship rights and will have to abuse their bodies working to make your types money. Andersonville, I tell you...
Can the self righteousness already? When you convert your house into a multi-family dwelling with the non-vaxxed newcomers, sure, then call me a racist purist. Until then? Slow your roll about "germ-related stress theories" developed back in 2014, old man...
Honestly, who does he know that they let him dribble this stuff in a daily paper rather than the academic journals where his pompous writing style belongs? Sheesh. Enough. (Betcha he hasn't had Covid even once yet, nevermind back in the harder, early days...)
Immigration, of course, does not engender only political responses. The psychological reaction to immigration — to the influx of new and unfamiliar populations — varies widely across the electorate.
In a 2012 paper, “Tracing the Threads: How Five Moral Concerns (Especially Purity) Help Explain Culture War Attitudes,” Spassena P. Koleva, Jesse Graham, Ravi Iyer, Peter H. Ditto and Jonathan Haidt argued that
individuals who view illegal immigrants as weakening the U.S. economy (the socially conservative position) might also fear that immigrants will bring in dangerous and polluting foreign elements (purity) and subvert American traditions and order (authority).
In an email to me, Ditto took this concept a step further:
For some people immigration is conceived as akin to contamination, as allowing impure foreign elements into a sacred and pure “American” body politic — and those apprehensions about contamination drive their resistance to immigration — perhaps legal as much as illegal.
But, Ditto cautioned, “this should not be taken to mean that these people view immigrants in a dehumanized way (as some kind of vermin) — that would be taking it too far. It is much more implicit than that — just a general valuation of purity and discomfort with contamination.”
Along related lines, in 2014, Randy Thornhill, a professor of biology at the University of New Mexico, and Corey Fincher, of the Face Research Lab at the University of Glasgow, published “Democracy and Other Governmental Systems.” They develop a germ-related stress theory that in many respects complements Ditto’s emphasis on the crucial role of purity. “The psychological dimension of xenophobia, ethnocentrism, traditionalism and authoritarianism,” Thornhill and Fincher contend, joins these features to pathogen-linked threats.
Conversely, Thornhill and Fincher argue, “individualism (hence, liberalism), democracy, anti-authoritarianism and women’s rights and freedom” are found more commonly in countries with relatively low health-related hazard levels.
I bet he's got a spare room, or more, that he could open up to undocumented newcomers. Wouldn't that be more helpful... leading by example rather than punching-down preaching about purity and "pathogen-linked threats"? Pair up already with New America. We have, why not yous?
ADDED:
“No, we don’t know, Lord,” Thomas said. “We have no idea where you are going", [Ed. note: -- understatement!), "so how can we know the way?”
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and THE LIFE: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
My sincere wish for Mr. Edsall, is he lose the tie, get up on his feet, stop with the blah blah blah preaching, and get out in America and actually live life!
It would likely improve his health; make him a happier, less dour man; change his writing style; and ... he might actually learn something. Our best elders know they have to keep growing, and humble themselves to do so. It's never too late, even for a Brown man!
(Oh dear, let me explain that one: I uppercased the Brown, in reference to his university. Not being a ray-cist (the black elders I know live that way too!); racially, you know not what you're talking about... Too much education, too little time spent living alongside common people. It's telling, and it shows in your daily work... Hope this helps! / Hth.)
If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”…
John 14:7; "Turn the page..." (Ope-- gotta get those cites right!)
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* House of Pain, Jump Around
Release Date: May 5, 1992
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