Yes. It's called realism.
That's
cynicism -- you're mistaken.
It's also cowardly capitulation to what by all ethics should be irrelevant.
Realistic is focusing on the approximately 100 million Americans who were eligible to vote but didn't vote.
These people aren't race this or that, they're simply fed up with extremist policy from
both wing-nut parties.
Exhibit 1: Lessons that a Party lose the support of the vast majority of a voting group for long periods of time (see African American voting patterns)
Exhibit 2: Growing share of the U.S. population that is comprised of Hispanics, a demographic trend that is forecast to continue for at least decades according to the Census Bureau
Exhibit 3: Growing losses of the share of the Hispanic vote won by GOP Presidential candidates (including the loss of the GOP-friendly Cuban vote in Florida)
Exhibit 4: Multiple states in which the Hispanic vote decided the outcome e.g., Florida, during the 2012 Presidential election
Exhibit 5: States that had shifted from competitive to reliable blue states (California, New Jersey, etc.) and others currently transitioning from red to purple to possibly blue in the long-term (Virginia, Florida, Colorado, New Mexico--with speculation that Texas, too could ultimately move into transition)
There's nothing of any
significant consequence that the conservative Repubs can do about these matters and still remain who they
are: conservative Repubs.
If they jump on the amnesty and legalization bandwagon they will get their clock cleaned even
more, as the millions of additional votes from former illegals will simply go to the liberal Dems
anyway.
Much of the challenge for the conservative Repubs is in their support of business owners/managers
over workers, and for whatever reasons that most business owners/managers might be White-Caucasian then that's going to mean a greater percentage of non-White-Caucasians will be
workers.
That's the challenge for the conservative Repubs.
There's nothing they can do about racial breakdown, to change those percentages in the demographic.
Even if they jump on the amnesty and legalization bandwagon, they'll still lose in the owners/managers v. workers numbers, and
that's the real issue here, not race as you've inaccurately portrayed it and so many others have baited it.
Since the conservative Repubs will definitely be dead if they cave to amnesty and legalization, because all the new low-wage former illegals will be siding with the liberal Dems on owner/manager v. worker issues, their best hope for survival is: 1) to block amnesty and legalization, and 2) find a way to appeal to the 100 million eligible voters who didn't vote this past November.
The "new math" of scorched earth immigration policy proponents that ignores the growing importance of the Hispanic voting segment only adds up to electoral defeat.
No, not true.
First of all, your portrayal of "scorched earth" really implies that voting any more is all about race, when it's not, and that the crimes committed by illegals aren't really crimes at all, when in truth they are huge and serious crimes for sure.
But even if that's what voter basis in America has descended to, this is still a
constitutional republic, not a "democratic" republic. We elect representatives who are free to decide each issue as it comes up, supposedly in the best interest of American
citizens.
Candidates, like Obama did in November, may pander to a race, like Hispanic-Latinos, and thus race-bait, but only dangerous ideologues will be compelled to
blindly follow up on that.
Each issue that elected officials must deal with needs to be addressed on its own terms at the time, after the election, analyzed critically and completely, and action needs to be taken to serve American
citizens as a whole, doing no unnecessary discriminating harm to any group.
Here you imply that "Hispanics will vote for the party that is likely to legalizes illegals because that's the overriding desire of Hispanic Americans in choosing whom to vote for".
However, in so doing, you just cast all Hispanics as unethical, immoral, and unjust, saying that "Hispanic Americans don't care that others of their race committed terrible crimes against American citizens of
all races, crimes of trespassing, identity-forging, and jobs/classrooms/other resource stealing, because justice and the rule of law in America is comparatively meaningless to Hispanics in this regard".
That's what you're saying.
You thereby create a
bigotry about Hispanic Americans .. and your aforementioned list of why candidates need to kowtow to "Hispanics" is merely a laundry list of excuses for your bigotry.
Senators McCain, Rubio, and others see the reality of what's happening.
You truly don't know what "they" see.
Rubio, for one, is setting up support for "immigration reform" contingent on the first step before anything being that the borders be completely and securely closed.
Since Obama, Reid, and the rest of the liberal Dems will never agree to that, since evidence of the complete and secure closure of our borders will take years to be seen, it's entirely possible that Rubio is just pandering to Hispanic-Latinos in posture .. but really is making sure "immigration reform" (read: amnesty, legalization, and citizenship for 20 million illegals)
never happens.
From a rational citizen-support position, it's huge that the borders
first be closed and secure and evidenced thusly, as if amnesty and legalization happens without that, we'll have 100 million illegals trespassing en masse within the year!
As for McCain, he's always been a loose cannon here and there .. but he's likely only concerned with the power-play, not supporting American citizens.
So your assumption about what others see simply does not fit the evidence to the contrary.
They are not prepared to risk an enduring loss of the vast majority of Hispanic voters, a voting segment that will continue to grow given the nation's evolving demographics.
Your bigoted portrayal of Hispanic-Latinos, that they're all about race and respond to race-baiting and they're unethical, immoral, care not about the rule of law and justice for wronged American citizens .. is simply and egregiously false.
The reality here is owner/manager v. worker, and, due to the low-income nature of illegals' work pay, the liberal Dems will garner much of the worker support of former illegals if amnesty, legalization, and citizenship for illegals occurs, which not only includes the illegals, but others, for whatever reason, of particular classes.
