I understand that a newfound reverence for following the law is the pretense being presented to the public. Again, where was this reverence when millions were being trafficked into the country?
It would seem to me that a more likely explanation is that Democrats’ entire plan was to import as many people as possible, get them on as many public benefits as possible, then empower them to vote in ways similar to Maine, where anyone can cast a vote in our elections.
Then, when a guy like me comes along and asks, “Have all of these people who need translators to vote REALLY passed the citizenship test?”, you call that person a racist. It really is that simple.
As far as the Constitution goes, it is silly to say I don’t give a shit about it. You presented me with a hypothetical that hasn’t happened and won’t happen, asking me to choose between Trump and an unnamed opponent who I assumed would continue to import as many people as possible. This saddles towns like Lewiston with even more impossible burdens, overwhelming EVERY SINGLE public institution that was functioning reasonably well just 10 short years ago.
Lincoln shat all over the Constitution too. Suspended writ of habeas corpus. He had no other choice. Trump is, uncoincidentally, the most hated President since Lincoln.
I don’t see what Republicans anywhere have to do with implementing voter ID in Maine. Maine has been dominated by Democrats since 2018, with the ability to implement whatever changes to Maine’s system of voting they wished. It is the way it is today because it allows non-citizens and non-resident students to vote in local and state elections. It allows them to subvert Maine law that requires US Citizenship to vote and pretend they have no idea that literally anyone can vote in a Maine election, or that it doesn’t happen.
It is on our November ballot as a ballot initiative due to a petition, not any actions by Maine Democrats, who are desperately fighting the idea on the basis that it might disenfranchise people. Never mind that every single non-citizen and non-resident who participates in our elections also disenfranchises a citizen.
That’s what confounds lefties about Maine. Democrats have dominated local and state politics for the last six years, with precious few Republicans controlling anything in government. They can’t blame anyone else, they can’t acknowledge their own policy failures, so they have now moved on to “standing against fascism”.
All while raising taxes and reversing none of their policies, radically transforming the entire state with historically unprecedented publicly-funded importation of people that not a single Democrat campaigned on.
Who is “we”? Democrats seem to be doing everything possible to stop deportations, including having a conception of “due process” that would require centuries to deport all of the illegals trafficked here by the Biden administration.
It seems obvious to me that there has been a massive effort to import a new voting bloc, which you seem to be “deflecting” from. Again, fully 1/3 of the student body at Lewiston Public Schools speaks no English. We have 42 languages spoken by those 2,000 students. I’ve listened to the teachers themselves explain the chaos, along with watching many leave the job. I’ve watched many good people simply leave Lewiston.
My son’s tuna fishing career and our roots in Lewiston are the only reason I’m still here. I’d move outside of town if the housing market wasn’t completely hosed, in no small part due to the pressure of importing so many people. It makes no financial sense for me to leave my current house unless I also leave Maine, which I likely will at some point.
If he was still in school, we would have moved long ago, but he graduated in 2018. It was only in his Jr. and Sr. year where I began to notice the institutional issues beginning to seem more serious, which resulted in him passing at least one class I wanted him to fail and repeat. He had a wonderful experience at LPS for his elementary and middle school years, when it was a fairly normal American high school with a substantial, but manageable, immigrant population.