so it's more like 3/4

I want to give all the immigrants bullshit office jobs and put these liberals on the roofs and farms

Careful these assholes are very close to looking at that amendment and reinventing slavery from first principles.

Cynics who knew they were pushing useful bullshit got replaced by people who grew up with the propaganda and are true believers.

for real. it goes to show how pervasive the ideology is that we assume the people benefiting the most under capitalism are clever, doing the calculation and finely tuning the controls for the optimal outcome of durable profit extraction.

it took me actually meeting some of these people to understand that almost all of them are ignorant shitheels who clumsily yank their levers of power to boost their immediate position and frequently sit on their own balls in the process.

it reinforces the idea that this is a system under which contradictions sharpen and tensions heighten because the people with control can't stop themselves.

they are. they do it not by imagining a balance though, but by moving in one direction, overreaching and then correcting, searching for stable equilibrium. from operation wetback (pardon) to whatever clinton was pulling with gatekeeper to trump, it oscillates.

but because size of economy shifts and there are constant shocks due to civil wars/sanctions by usa itself, there is no equilibrium to be found.

It would be very funny to see the difference in polling on:

"I think all illegal immigrants should be convicted of a crime and deported."

vs

"I think anyone who employs an illegal immigrant should be convicted of a crime and jailed."