GOP's Current Southern Strategy Will Fail

The Republicans’ current Southern Strategy of creating hatred of undocumenteds by saying immigrants (Mexicans) come here for our health care system is beyond ludicrous. The Lie is if immigrants did not come here for our free health care, it would work beautifully and privatization would be legitimized. Our health care system is catastrophically broken primarily because it is privatized, a for-profit system run by corporations, that exist for profit not quality care.

Most immigrants have free, accessible health care at home; they come to the US not for health care but to work because Republican employers unlawfully exploit their labor by hiring while demonizing them. Immigrants do the dangerous and dirty work for a pittance and are here because of employer exploitation. Republicans’ Southern Strategy failed against Blacks; it will fail against hard working, reliable Mexicans.

The Party of Fear needs a new Lie with which to frighten voters into voting against their own best interests by supporting the vested interests of corporate America, represented by the Republican Party. Republicans exploit Evangelicals and Fundamentalists and Mexicans for their profit. So far the Republicans have been able to fool all the people all the time. Will the voters allow them to continue?