American "Family Values" on full display.

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

glenn1

Lifer
Sep 6, 2000
25,383
1,013
126
Ain't that what Jesus would do?

He told people to obey the law and accepted his punishment when given to him. Whether we should repeal our immigration laws or radically change them is an entirely different argument than should we enforce them in the meantime. It's both completely disingenuous and frankly immoral to selectively enforce immigration laws, tacitly saying that if you've been here for long enough without being caught we'll let you stay but if you get caught right away then we'll send you back. Progressives don't want to support outright open borders even though it's far more moral than their current policies because they'd lose an important source of power over and (they think, wrongly) future votes from their slave labor class.
 

woolfe9998

Lifer
Apr 8, 2013
16,188
14,091
136
"Family values" as supported by conservatives never had anything to do with compassion for others so far as I recall. It was always a series of "thou shalt nots" taken from their scripture, essentially an authoritarian idea. So at least they're not being inconsistent in their rhetoric. Tolerating Trump's philandering is where they're being inconsistent on "family values."