• @Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    331 month ago

    They can’t solve it. Look at what happened with abortion. They used it as a political hammer for decades. Then McConnell and Trump managed to stack SCOTUS with enough religious zealots that they actually overturned Roe v. Wade. Now, Republicans are getting their asses handed to them in elections all over the country because the majority of Americans didn’t want it overturned.

    If Republicans actually solve the border “crisis” they will get beat up even more. The American agriculture industry relies on immigrant labor. It cannot function without it. If Trump and the Republicans solve this and kick out all immigrants, we as a nation will be screwed. Produce will rot in the fields. We’ll have no one to slaughter meat animals. You cannot find enough American citizens that are willing to do that work for what the industry pays. Inflation will shoot up like never before and Republicans will again get assaulted at the polls.

    • @Dultas@lemmy.world
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      131 month ago

      That’s what the child labor is for. There is more than one reason to restrict birth control and abortion access.

    • @dhork@lemmy.world
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      71 month ago

      Inflation will shoot up like never before and Republicans will again get assaulted at the polls.

      You are assuming Republican voters are rational. They have a long history of voting against their own interests, because their leaders convince the voters that the real problem is the liberals/feminists/gays/immigrants/etc…

      Inflation will shoot up and it will be Someone Else’s Fault.

      • @Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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        11 month ago

        Actually I’m hoping that the independent voters are rational and can be reasoned with. There are not enough Republican voters to doom us on their own. I do have to acknowledge that history suggests I’m being unreasonably optimistic.

    • Diplomjodler
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      41 month ago

      People will have no choice but to take those jobs or starve. And you can’t lose an election, if you abolish elections. Checkmate libruls!

      • @Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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        31 month ago

        People will have no choice but to take those jobs or starve.

        I know your comment is a joke, but it really doesn’t work that way. Florida has passed a draconian law banning hiring undocumented immigrants and farmers are suffering because of it.

        • Diplomjodler
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          41 month ago

          The Republicans have constantly fought against workers’ rights and once they have completed their takeover, you can bet they will take the US all the way back to the 19th century in that regard.