Enforce Existing Immigration Laws [SPLIT]

[rareboy]

I don’t know when your land ownership clock starts ticking but those native Americans came from somewhere and judging by their DNA it was from Asian and European stock. So it’s not really stealing it’s more like your unwelcome family members showing up when you wished they just stayed away.

It is pretty easy to start the clock. The first small bands of humans who migrated into any UNOCCUPIED land didn't steal it. They just became the first human occupants in lands that weren't occupied.

By the time Europeans came in and simply claimed the land and drove the current occupants out...that was stealing. And it happened on a massive scale.

 

[Kulindahr]

Until you vote these people out of office, nothing will get fixed.

The problem being that the 'election' which counts is the run for the green, the effort to get campaign funds, since over four-fifths of all campaign funds come from less that 0.05% of the people -- the wealthiest 0.05%, who make sure that no matter how else a politician might vote he/she will always vote in favor of more power to the wealthy.

 

[KaraBulut]

The problem being that the 'election' which counts is the run for the green, the effort to get campaign funds, since over four-fifths of all campaign funds come from less that 0.05% of the people -- the wealthiest 0.05%, who make sure that no matter how else a politician might vote he/she will always vote in favor of more power to the wealthy.

That changed with the internet. A larger number of individual contributors are changing the landscape. Small donors accounted for 23% of the overall fundraising in the 2020 federal elections, up from 15% in 2016.

Of more concern is selective "targeting".

This year, Missouri House Rep Cori Bush (D-MO) was targeted by pro-Israeli PACs who gave a total of $8 million to her opponent, Wesley Bell, because Bush made statements in support of Palestinians. Bush is a pastor and a nurse and has a long history of advocating for social justice causes. She was defeated in her primary by Bell 51%-45% and she will lose her seat after serving two terms in the US House. Bell is an attorney with a history of aiding anti-abortion Republicans in Missouri.

 

[Kulindahr]

Of more concern is selective "targeting".

I'd match that with the ability of the super-wealthy to use other people's money to support their wishes via their seats on corporate boards. They treat it as though that money is theirs to do with as they please especially when it comes to politics. But the only way I see to do that is to declare that only living, breathing individual citizens and legal residents have any rights in the political sphere.