spillybun:

I’m convinced that older liberals recognize that illegal immigrants can be easily exploited for gain, so they’ve told younger liberals that the right is just racist and hate immigrants when the truth is the right supports legal immigrants and is against illegal immigration for several reasons including but not limited to the fact that they are so easily exploited for gain and also the fact that children are taken across the border illegally for sex trafficking.

It’s unfortunately a very common tactic of the left to call the right racist, sexist, homophobic, etc to put the right on defense and discredit everything they say so that they don’t have to face the flaws within leftist thinking.

If you convince everyone that your enemy is a hateful monster then nothing they have to say has to be considered because it’s all garbage right? And nothing you believe has to be reconsidered because you’re on the side of the angels.

Most leftists have good intentions but I believe they are being manipulated by people in power who will use those intentions to their own advantage by feeding them half truths and pointing them towards a wrong solution that will lead to their own gain.

Very few people on either side are pure evil and want bad things to happen. That’s a cartoon villain image that’s way too easy to get in your head about people you disagree with and you can end up seeing them like caricatures instead of real people.

Almost everyone simply wants things to be better for us all, we just have different ideas on how to achieve that.