By Peak Prosperity – 3/6/2020
By Jose Nino 3/6/2020
Political analyst Ryan Girdusky quote tweeted Senior White House Reporter for NBC News Digital Shannon Pettypiece on an NBC exit poll measuring Democratic voters’ views on socialism.
States like California and Texas stood out among Democrats who had favorable views about socialism.
54 percent of California Democrats have favorable views of socialism, while 57 percent of Texas Democrats have favorable views of socialism.
Interestingly, both states have large immigration populations.
According to Pew Research, California has nearly 11 million foreign residents (27.2% of the population) and Texas has nearly 5 million foreign residents (16.9 percent of the population).
On the other hand, North Carolina and Tennessee Democrats were not as receptive towards socialism.
Only 48 percent of North Carolina voters and 47 percent of Tennessee voters view socialism favorably.
These two states only have immigration populations of 786,374 immigrants (7.7 percent of the population) and 331,868 immigrants (5 percent of the population), respectively.
Demographic shift is one of the most powerful issues in American politics.
For example, a recent Pew Research poll found that Hispanic voters have solidly leftist views on foundational political issues.
The majority of Hispanic voters (71%) believe the government should be more involved to solve problems,
Additionally, Hispanic voters are generally in favor of the U.S. government playing a stronger role in the healthcare sector. About seven-in-ten (71%) say it is the federal government’s responsibility to ensure health care coverage for all of Americans.
As far as gun ownership is concerned, seven-in-ten Hispanic voters (68%) believe gun control laws should be strengthened.
These results are consistent with post-1965 Immigration Act voting trends among migrants during the last 50 years.
The Republican Party will have to come to grip with these realities.
Migration has historically has come in waves.
There are either legislative or natural pauses in immigration and the U.S. is long overdue for a moratorium on mass migration. The good news is that the U.S. can look to its history for a previous example of immigration restriction in the Immigration Act of 1924.
We can only hope that the GOP dusts off its history books and take a page from this act.
MARCH 5, 2020
Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, an Iranian officer in charge of the country’s Civil Defense Organization claimed Tuesday that “A study of the consequences of the virus in terms of tolls or the extent of the epidemic and the type of media propaganda over this issue that is aimed at increasing fear and panic among people strengthens the speculations that a biological attack has been launched against China and Iran with economic goals.”
Strongly hinting that the the virus is a bio-attack by the US, Jalali told Iranian Fars News Agency, state media, that he is seeking “laboratorial investigations and comparing the genome of the primary virus and the new genomes” to confirm his theory.
Iran has been accused of covering up the real extent of the outbreak within its borders. At time of writing it has officially recorded only 92 deaths from 2,922 cases, but those numbers are significantly lower than what independent reports and claims from dissident groups within the country suggest. The real number of deaths is thought to be in the high hundreds or thousands.
Videos uploaded to YouTube by the dissident groups purport to show people collapsing in the streets of Tehran from the effects of the virus, and are reminiscent of previous videos from China:
Iranian dictator Ayatollah Khamenei issued a statement Tuesday urging that the “jihad” against coronavirus is proving successful, and that the outbreak “is not such a big tragedy.”
“I don’t want to say it’s unimportant, but let’s not exaggerate it either. The Coronavirus will affect the country briefly & leave. But the experience it brings, and the actions of the people & the govt sectors, are like a public exercise that will remain as an achievement,” Khamenei said.
The idea that the virus originated in a lab has been a talking point ever since the outbreak started, with some US officials and western biological experts expressing concern that coronavirus may be a Chinese bio-weapon.
Kahlenberg, 36, recently returned from a trip to Amsterdam and attended a game at Brondby’s home stadium on Sunday afternoon.
The Copenhagen club said that he had since tested positive for the virus and has been placed in isolation.
“Thomas is doing well considering the circumstances and is in good spirits,” the club said in a statement on its website.
Brondby said that 13 people have been placed in home quarantine following their game against Lyngby at the weekend.
They also urged any fans who had come into contact with Kahlenberg – who visited the fan zone during Sunday’s game – to get in touch the medical authorities.
Kahlenberg is the highest-profile coronavirus case from the world of football so far.
He made 47 appearances for his country between 2003 and 2014, scoring five times.
His club career included spells at Brondby, where he is now a youth team coach, as well as at Auxerre in France and Wolfsburg in Germany.
The coronavirus – known as Covid-19 – continues to spread around the world, with almost 100,000 cases now reported and in excess of 3,000 deaths.
By Dr. John Campbell – 3/5/2020
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