Apple Don't Fall Far From The Tree
Democrat policy regarding labor has not altered one iota of a degree since the Civil War. They have shown who they are; now it is time to believe them.
Free Will is a mutha fuca mane. I say this in this manner not for any shock value, but rather emphasis, because the choices politicians make, mainly those of the progressive liberal variety. I understand the concept of choice and ‘free will’ well, both innately and academically. I am sure many a cat has discussed it philosophically, but I can only recall a few.
True, some like Friedrich Nietzsche regarded free will as an illusion, rejecting traditional notions of free will as an instrument of religious and moral control. He viewed the concept as a social construct. The way he explained it, our actions are shaped by unconscious drives, instincts, and the desire for power. Somewhat like the position of Arthur Schopenhauer, who believed that man is not free to will, but free in what we do with our will, because our character is fixed, but actions follow from motives.
This was the opposite of Immanuel Kant, who wrote in essence that free will is a necessary condition for morality. However, others like Thomas Hobbes suggested that, as long as you're not externally coerced, your actions are "free," and David Hume claimed people confuse freedom with randomness, defining freedom as acting according to one's desires, not free from causal chains. Before you say I forgot some cats, I will let you know I am well aware that others have written about free will, but I can only go off what I recall from my own reading.
All I am attempting to say is that when we DO include political affiliation when examining free will and choice, for Democrats, it means acting in line with their historical character, which means regardless of their positions, based on history, it reasonable to posit "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree." The metaphorical meaning of this proverb is often applied to parents and their children, or affiliations regarding the formation of beliefs and viewpoints. Example:
"She’s always causing trouble, just like her mother. I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree."
The historical policy positions of the democrat party do not “fall far from the tree." No clearer can this be observed in policy is what has been unmasked regarding the response to ICE agents serving warrants some days ago on two weed farms in California. It appears that the democrats’ penchant for cheap and slave labor continues to persist, as evinced in their consistent vocal and vehement open support to maintain the slave labor of illegal immigrants flourishing in the U.S., the same as they fought so viciously to maintain slavery during the Antebellum South. Their fiendish desire to protect illegal immigration labor for their cotrie of elites is only challenged by a crackheads desire for smoking crack.
History chronicles that the Democrat Party’s early development and political strength were deeply entwined with protecting and expanding slavery, especially in the 19th century (See The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828–1856 & A Slaveholders' Union: Slavery, politics, and the constitution in the early American Republic).
Then as now, cheap and free labor was to be protected at all costs, and race was a useful tool for sowing division. The modern Democrat Party emerged in the 1820s. As the party grew, it became a staunch defender of slavery, which was the economic and social foundation of the South. They opposed abolitionist movements, resisted federal interference with slavery, and promoted the idea of popular sovereignty, letting territories vote on whether to allow slavery (see the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854).
Major Democratic leaders, including Presidents James K. Polk and James Buchanan, either expanded slavery or failed to challenge it, making the Party the main political force defending slavery and opposing abolition.
After the Civil War and during Reconstruction, Democrats opposed civil rights for freed slaves, and many supported Jim Crow laws later.
The way they fight on behalf of illegal immigrants, because supposedly, they do jobs U.S. citizens won’t, is as if the policy views of Democrats regarding labor have not altered one iota of a degree since the Civil War. The Democratic political party has shown who they are; it’s time to believe them. Americans are not their focus anymore; rather, unaccompanied illegal children and immigrant laborers, even ones working on marijuana farms.
In California, you have to be a minimum of 21 to work in any capacity with marijuana. That includes the field. They broke multiple laws by having those illegal minors working in the fields. Yet opponents of enforcing federal immigration laws continue to use terms and phrases like "Kidnapping," "disappear(ing) people," "snatch(ing) people off the street," and"ICE Gestapo thugs." Could their language be more silly? Am I the only one who finds it amazing that they use the word Gestapo without a clue to how they operated? Plus, being arrested for a crime is NOT kidnapping. How dumb can folks (Bass) be?
How in the world does this make sense? If a person under the age of 21 cannot go into a dispensary, how can they work on a farm that grows and sells the same product under the age of 21? The law is the law. We must, and are obligated to, enforce it, regardless of who disagrees. How many times can you say "ICE Gestapo” in one minute? These people are actively supporting and encouraging violence against federal and local law enforcement. If a U.S. citizen tries to stop ICE from performing their duties, then they should, and will, be arrested or detained.
I consider most of these folks rioting to be addlepated nincompoops (mostly women with braces on their brains and dyed hair), who in aggregate, can’t muster the IQ of two dead 12-volt batteries in a flashlight. We know why they're working on these farms, and it isn't to send money home to mom and dad. Give me a break. These kids aren't working to make money for their families, when you find more than 8 UNACCOMPANIED minors, easy to wager their "earnings" go to Cartels. Thus, California is enabling and aiding the Cartels. Is there drug cartel money going into the democratic party coffers?
Why haven't they questioned the owner of these pot farms, who are allowing children to work around drugs? Why aren't these owners arrested? Those children working at this weed farm are the lucky ones, because we don’t know what happened to 300,000 unaccounted children who crossed unaccompanied during the Biden-Harris Administration.
Here's a thought: any US company hiring undocumented illegal aliens who are not documented to work in the United States: fine them $500,000 per worker, and double that each month afterwards. If undocumented workers can't get work in the United States, let that become Gavin Newsom's and Karen Bass’s problem.
Another thing is how these people are mad for going after illegal immigrants based on reasonable suspicion. If someone starts running when someone with an ICE hat shows up, what other suspicion do you need? Or are you gonna tell me driving erratically isn't a reason to be pulled over for a traffic stop? If you were drinking, you have something to worry about. If you were not drinking, you would not have anything to worry about. It does not matter if it hurts your feelings or not. The same applies to immigration enforcement. If you're hanging outside of Home Depot at 6 am and cannot speak or understand English when approached by a law enforcement officer, that's a clear reason for suspicion. When you turn on the lights in the kitchen, and the bugs begin to run, that's reasonable suspicion that those are roaches.
Keeping it a thow-wow, I’m low-key okay with me possibly being stopped and detained to get 10 million out in the next 3.5 years. I will be let go, and I will thank the ICE officers when it’s over. Sympathy for someone running from law enforcement to avoid arrest for violating the law is only seen as a virtue by those who have never suffered at the hands of criminals. Try losing a loved one because of one, or suffer having been violated by one, and then you'll understand the importance of enforcing criminal laws.
How badly do Democrats want to maintain their cheap labor pipeline to exploit? So much so that Mayor Karen Bass has announced a new program to provide cash assistance to illegal immigrant families touched by ICE enforcement efforts. The funds will be distributed as cash cards valued at "a few hundred" dollars each and are expected to become available within the next week.
I thought LA was experiencing a debt crisis and laying off city employees. LA would be better off if she had stayed in Ghana. If I lived in Los Angeles, where they would be giving money to the illegal immigrants, I would sue for discrimination. But I live in a small town in Georgia, so I can’t.
Of course, Mayor Karen Bass goes so hard for these illegal immigrants. She doesn’t care about American citizens in her city, not even the Black community, or else her focus would be on their basic needs. Where is the FireAID money? This is what most citizens in her city, and across the nation, want to know. Plus, I have heard that there is still no water in the Palisades Reservoir presently. She should give money to the people who were burned out of their homes, instead of illegal immigrants. This is ridiculous.
Bass also said that ICE needed to leave MacArthur Park, but she did not direct similar statements to gang members, drug dealers, and addicts in the Park.
They are good at protesting, rioting, and calling for reparations, but they are perfectly fine with using children for slave labor on farms. If it were up to me, the fired federal workers would be hired to go pick our crops now. But I reckon it should be expected from members of a political party that uses a Jackass for a mascot. Here is a novel thought: once she distributes those cards, have ICE track them, and pick them up while spending or having food delivered.
No matter what is done to address illegal immigration, these cats will always complain. Their response to Alligator Alcatraz has shown this. Where are all these crybabies complaining about the prison conditions for American citizens? Of course, they're crying in those detention centers because they don't want to have to go home. But newsflash, emotional virtue signaling manipulation isn't working anymore. Access to information is too available to trick the masses into supporting this advocacy, except for the mentally deficient and retarded. Seriously, these people are insane.
I am just going to put it out there. Profiling is NOT illegal; it is a basic detective skill. If a park is known for unlawful activity controlled by MS13 for drugs and other activities, that is enough to detain and question. If, during this detention, it is determined that you may be here illegally, that gives them the reasonable articulable suspicion to look into your citizenship status. Basic investigation skillset. If a home or business is known for employing illegal workers, that is a reasonable detention.
Suck it up, buttercup. the reason implementing deportation law is an affront to the Democrat Party is because they don't want to lose their cheap labor, and they don't want to lose the head count that determines Congressional and electoral apportionments. So if a murderer is killing somebody and a cop attempts to arrest him and the cop gets stabbed, that's the cop’s fault? These are the same people who would poke an anthill and blame the ants for defending themselves.
The people who are saying that immigrants are all legal are the same ones who claim Israel is occupying Palestine. You can look at these people and tell where their beliefs are. They look goofy. They're so damn comfortable breaking the law that when someone comes along and starts enforcing it, they're outraged. You really can't make this shit up. They aren't being kidnapped. They are being arrested.
Do your thang, ICE. The American people approve of this deportation action.
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Some study history, some don't. Some learn from history, some don't. Jesus wept.
You posted this article as a comment to one of mine, so I figured I'd do you a solid and reply to it here as well:
I read your article, and it’s an almost perfect distillation of right-wing revisionist history—full of rhetorical flair, but not much in the way of evidence or logic.
Let’s set the record straight, since this “Democrats are the real racists” line is the oldest propaganda trick in the book:
1. Parties Swapped. That’s a Fact, Not an Opinion.
The Democratic Party of the Confederacy and Jim Crow was the party of the Deep South. After the New Deal and especially after LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act, those “old Democrats” fled to the Republican Party, which built its modern coalition on their resentments—the so-called “Southern Strategy.”
The parties literally swapped. Today, the GOP owns the Deep South, rural America, and the politics of racial grievance. Democrats are the party of cities, the North, and the very people the old Confederacy sought to oppress.
If you doubt it, look at a single electoral map or the voting records of Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, or the entire “Dixiecrat” movement—every single one of them ended their careers as Republicans.
2. Who Actually Profits From Undocumented Labor?
The industries that exploit undocumented labor—agriculture, meatpacking, hospitality, construction—donate overwhelmingly to Republicans. That’s public record.
It’s Republican agribusiness and construction magnates lobbying to keep wages low, block citizenship, and maintain a cheap, terrified labor force. The “Democrats just want cheap labor” line is projection at its most brazen.
The only policy consistently blocked by the GOP for 40 years? A path to citizenship that would eliminate that exploitation—because then, workers could actually bargain for wages.
3. Today’s Republican Party Is the Party of Pre-Civil Rights Democrats.
The social base, the geography, the policies, the resentments—it all matches. The only thing that changed was the name on the door.
You say “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”? You’re right—but you’re pointing at the wrong tree. The roots of the current GOP are in the Confederate South, Jim Crow, and the anti-civil rights backlash.
4. On “Law and Order” and ICE:
The real story of “law and order” is a regime of terror aimed at the powerless and a total pass for the powerful. You want to talk about ICE? Let’s talk about the GOP's record of shielding employers while jailing workers and tearing families apart.
If Republicans truly cared about “the law,” they’d go after the employers who hire undocumented workers. But those employers are Republican donors. Instead, they scapegoat kids in the fields while giving the bosses a free pass.
5. The “Democrats Haven’t Changed” Lie is Just That—a Lie.
FDR, Truman, JFK, LBJ, MLK, the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act, Barack Obama—these are not the party of Andrew Jackson or Jefferson Davis.
Pretending nothing changed is an insult to the millions who fought, bled, and died to change this country for the better.
So, spare me the fake history. The only people still falling for this “Democrats = Confederates” nonsense are those who never bothered to pick up a history book written after 1964.
Here’s the truth, repeated as many times as it takes:
Today’s Republican Party is the direct heir to the Confederacy and Jim Crow.
Today’s Democratic Party is the party of civil rights, the New Deal, and the multi-racial working class.
The record, the maps, the votes, and the donor lists all say the same thing.
If you want to keep running this tired old play, you’re welcome to. But the rest of us are done letting you get away with rewriting history to cover for the people actually running the biggest exploitation racket in modern America.