Shorter Harold Meyerson: Let's strip citizenship from 'anchor babies' and from the descendents of Confederate traitors! How does that sound to you, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina? How about you, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky?
My only question is whether I, as a descendent of both a treasonous Confederate and a Union soldier, would be able to retain my citizenship. My wife is descended from people who came after the Civil War, so as long as our children could be full citizens, I'm willing to settle for a green card or something like that.
Writing about this issue, digby had this to say:
It's never a good idea to underestimate people's willingness to deprive others of things they take for granted themselves.
To take it a step further, the entire strategy of the GOP - electoral and governing - is to exploit that willingness by always making sure that no matter how terrible the GOP makes life for its own members, there will always be someone else who has it just a little bit worse, someone to whom the badly educated, unhealthy, unemployed white can feel superior. Unfortunately, we do not yet seem to have run out of people whose hatred of The Other surpasses the love they feel for their families and even themselves. As long as there are people who are more interested in punishing black and Hispanic children for their skin color than they are in providing good things for their own children, the GOP will continue its assault on the US Constitution.
