Is the tea party racist?
If opposition to immigration reform is motivated by conservatives' concern with law and order, as House Republicans claim, we should observe no differences between Tea Party and non-Tea Party conservatives in the mass public on immigration policy, but that’s not what’s happening.
A national survey I conducted revealed significant discrepancies between Tea Party conservatives and non-Tea Party conservatives, especially when it comes to “illegal” immigrants and immigration policy:
— When asked whether or not "restrictive immigration policies are based in part on racism," 40 percent of non-Tea Party conservatives say that racism has something to do with restrictive immigration policy versus 18 percent of Tea Party conservatives.
— Almost two-thirds (66 percent) of Tea Party conservatives want to eliminate birthright citizenship (part of the 14th Amendment) versus 46 percent of non-Tea Party conservatives — a 20-point difference.
— Only 30 percent of Tea Party conservatives support the DREAM Act versus 50 percent of non-Tea Party conservatives, another 20-point difference.
It’s clear that Republican constituents are fraught with anxiety induced by the perception of a cultural threat.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2013—Family Research Council shows how the grift is done:
Remember how we were talking about how the entire conservative movement's just one big grift focused on keeping stupid people terrified about everything, all the time, so that the stupid people keep sending them money? Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council have that one down.
"If a foreign enemy had plotted to infiltrate America, I’m not sure an army of undercover subversives could have done more damage than our government-run schools….
Leftists don’t want a single American child to escape their thought control. And they are crowding out true education. […]
Today’s science classes often feature big-government political propaganda, taking time and focus away from true science. Not to mention attacks on the Bible and arrogant censoring of any theories like intelligent design that challenge their Darwinism."
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Here I've had a kid in public school all this time, and not once did I realize what a dystopian gulag it was. How dare it try to stomp out "true science" like … intelligent desi … oh, what's the point. I can't even pretend to think Tony Perkins knows what "science" is, not even as satire. "Intelligent design" is a "science" the same way as tying your feet to the bumper of a car and gluing skateboard wheels to your face can be considered "carpooling." That they even chose the term demonstrates that they don't know what either of those two words mean.
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