{"id":9632,"date":"2015-07-31T08:59:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T12:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=9632"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:10:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:10:36","slug":"bravo-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/07\/31\/bravo-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Bravo, Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"
In America, there is a tendency to try to pigeonhole every social and political issue neatly into the framework of liberal versus conservative. In reality, most of the burning issues our time are not really left vs. right.<\/p>\n
Immigration is perhaps the prime example of an issue that does not fit the paradigm. Rather than a left-right issue, the real divide over immigration is the elite versus (for lack of a better term) average Americans. It\u2019s not quite the 1 percent versus the 99 percent, but clearly there is a dramatic divide between how the denizens of the island of Manhattan, or the upscale Zip Codes in and around Washington, D.C., view immigration, and those who live in much of the rest of the country.<\/p>\n
Case in point: At this moment Sen Bernie Sanders, a proud socialist from the land of Ben and Jerry, is raining all over Hillary Clinton\u2019s coronation as the Democratic Party\u2019s 2016 presidential nominee. Unlike most other prominent leftists, Sanders is not only the very antithesis of elitism, but delights in being a thorn in the side of the left-wing elite. Despite his incongruous support for the 2013 Gang of Eight amnesty bill, Sanders clearly recognizes the damaging effect<\/a> that mass immigration has on what he might describe as the proletariat.<\/p>\n More refreshing is that the July 1 murder of Kathryn Steinle at the hands of an illegal alien criminal who was turned loose by the elitists who rule San Francisco may have sparked some introspection by the elite themselves. By pretty much anyone\u2019s definition, the editors of The Atlantic<\/i>, would qualify as elite, as would most of the magazine\u2019s readership.<\/p>\n