Wednesday, March 09, 2016

VDH with a full head of steam

More Victor Davis Hanson:
For half the week, I live at ground zero of Trump’s so-called poor white support, such as it is in blue California, and half the week I am with his critics on the Stanford campus. Aside from logic and to be crude, class is the chief divide that reveals attitudes about Mr. Trump. “Comprehensive immigration reform” for elites is a catchword that your children are not going to schools with Mexican illegal immigrants, who are not all dreamers but often include at least a few quite dangerous gang members. I know open-borders advocate Mark Zuckerberg’s kids will not enjoy a diverse Redwood City immigrant experience. (Why exactly has he stealthily bought up his surrounding neighborhood and staffed it with private security teams to adjudicate whom he sees while entering and leaving his compound?)

The children of Republican elites do not sit in classes where a quarter of the students do not speak English. When that specter of diversity looms, parents yank their kids and put them in the prep schools of Silicon Valley that are rapidly reaching New England numbers (or maybe better southern academies that followed integration). Their children are not on buses where an altercation between squabbling eight year olds leads to a tattooed parent arriving at your home to challenge you to a fight over “disrespecting” his family name. The establishment Republicans have rarely jogged around their neighborhoods only to be attacked by pit bulls, whose owners have little desire to speak English, much less to cage, vaccinate, or license their dogs. They have never been hit by illegal-alien drivers in Palo Alto. In other words, they do not wish to live anywhere near those who, as a result of an act of love, are desperately poor, here under illegal auspices, and assume California works and should work on the premises of Oaxaca.

But in rural Fresno County it is not uncommon to have been sideswiped and rear-ended by those who fled the scene, leaving their wrecked cars without insurance and registration. I doubt that CNN morning anchors have woken up to an abandoned Crown Victoria in their yard that swerved and went airborne in the night—its driver (who spoke neither Spanish nor English but a dialect of Mixteca Baja) found in the shrubs still sleeping it off.
There's a lot more at the link. And you should read it.

9 comments:

Gino said...

its nice to see one of the pundits actually writing about life as i see it, and experience it, everyday... and have for 15 plus now. yes, my kids did go to school where 1/4 of the class spoke zero english, (another 1/4-1/2 spoke, but not well)...
and i DID have my car totaled (this was in 1997) by a wetback without insurance or license.

Anonymous said...

wetback. i see how people talk when they don't think anyone is listening. trump must be the naked id of some humanoids in america. the banality of evil lurks beneath a thin layer of dust in fresno, swimming in a fetid pool in minnesota, hiding under the kudzu in dixie, clinging to a granite outcropping in new england, and behind the lens of basic cable news.

Gino said...

'Wetback' is as legitimate a term referring to a certain class of people as 'Redneck' is, and is common usage among all groups where i'm from.

you'll need to leave your bubble if you want the right to lecture me with any amount of credibility.

Mr. D said...

I strongly dislike the term "wetback." I don't use it myself. I try not to censor my comment section too much; I could, but since Gino and I are friends he gets some latitude because I know what's in his heart. And, crucially, he owns his comments by signing his name to them.

I also allow anonymous commenters in my comment section, but frankly I find them pretty damned gutless. You say you see how people talk when they don't think anyone is listening, but you hide behind the veil of anonymity? Weak, weak, weak, although I will say the non-standard punctuation is a nice touch.

Gino said...

He stole the non standard punctuation from me. Flattery and all that...

Gino said...

Part of the problem with discussing this problem: I'm upset because an illegal smashed my car, costing me severe financial losses, and this other guy is more upset about a term used to accurately describe the perp... As the problem lies with me.

Can't save this republic. It's doomed.

Mr. D said...

I don't think the Republic is doomed. The hour is late, however.

Bike Bubba said...

I was once told by a Salvadorean that there's a term in Mexico for Norteamericanos who come across the Rio Grande having gotten splashed a bit as well. Apropos something, I'm sure.

But on a topic not regarding a word I've got little use for, it strikes me that as long as cities, counties, and states don't report criminal aliens to immigration for deportation, those who are victimized by them are going to lash out any way they can. And it quite frankly baffles me that even fellow illegals want to keep criminals around. One would figure that they've got enough criminals in their communities already, even without criminal immigrants, but apparently not.

Gino said...

central americans do the jobs that mexicans wont do. (the latrine guy? most likely honduran/guatamalan.) yup, there is heirarchy even among wetbacks.