Immigration policy is, according to Obama, one more "broken" element in American society. Of course he hasn't said why it's broken or who broke it. But others will, and vociferously, including new elements not yet seen in American politics.
I think the tea party movement is based not just on resistance to excessive government power but, more fundamentally, on truth, on gaining clarity, on re-articulating the real problems in America outside of the propaganda and sanctimonious bromides of the mainstream media. What amnesty means to the broad swath of Americas is not just more economic dislocation and displacement, it's the imposition of a foreign culture and values threatening core American political, social, moral beliefs. It means the "latinizing" of American society in ways radically incompatible, on every level, with where this nation began philosophically. While the MSM pundits refuse to talk about this, even many of the conservatives, the average American citizen-taxpayer understands it both intellectually and viscerally, and this deep truth will not only not go away it will break out into everyday speech and become a rallying cry. Just as the illegal alien community now feels comfortable waving foreign flags and talking about how this land is their land and how they will re-take America by outpopulating white America and how "gabachos" are history--all of this blatantly racist but systematically concealed and suppressed by fellow travelers in the media--Americans will eventually feel comfortable making their own cultural and political defense without apology and bluntly. This will, make no mistake about it, scare the bejesus out of a lot of people who "don't want trouble" and prefer to live inside the comfortable lies that got us here.
No, an amnesty will NOT go down easily. Rest assured of that.
