Kamala the Mattress Did Not Quite Sleep Her Way to the Top
Only to a major state office that now has brought her just underneath.
by Dov Fischer
August 12, 2020, 12:01 AM
I have lived in California during the Age of Kamala. It has been the era when the state that elected world-class Republican conservatives to statewide office left the mainland. From governors like Ronald Reagan, George Deukmejian, and Pete Wilson, the state became the showcase for Democrats nationwide to see what illegal immigration could do to political demographics. We soon were returning to Jerry Brown — Governor Moonbeam — this time bereft of Linda Ronstadt and her roller skates, with the loon focused instead on building a Speed Train from Nowhere to Nowhere. In 2008 they told us it would cost $33.6 billion. In 2012 the number was raised to $53.4 billion. In 2016 they said it would cost $64 billion. Now the official estimate is $80.3 billion. (For what it’s worth, a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket launches for $62 million.) So Moonbeam was back.
Democrat leaders across the nation took note. The Democrats always had been the most outspoken opponents against illegal immigration. Obama originally wanted fences. Hillary wanted physical barriers at the southern border. Biden voted for 700 miles of fencing at the southern border to stop “corrupt Mexico.†Schumer demanded 630 miles of wall. It’s all there on video. See for yourself. Democrats then were focused on protecting their base: union workers, the Black working class, and Hispanic day laborers. Leading Democrats knew that a tsunami of cheap manual labor would badly sabotage the interests of union members, their historic core voters. It would destroy the rise of the Black American middle class by suppressing wages of those in the working class whose years of effort and hard work offered hope to save enough to buy a house. Working-class wages would stop growing at the pace expected if a huge new source of dirt-cheap labor would enter the country illegally. Perhaps no one opposed illegal immigration more than did the hero of the Hispanic working class, Cesar Chavez of the United Farm Workers. He knew what illegal immigration would do to Hispanic workers legally in America. He even alleged that illegal immigration was being encouraged by the CIA to hurt the legal farm workers.
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