Also, if anyone mentions that mass deportations are popular, remind them that people think it means “kick out the bad people only.” When you tell voters what mass deportations entails — breaking up families, internment, rounding up people here for years — it suddenly becomes a very unpopular idea.
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I found it.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.instagram.com/meidastouch/reel/DCP_07HR-WK/&ved=2ahUKEwid34ilnuSJAxXuQjABHY9QOMcQuAJ6BAgKEAE&usg=AOvVaw0ji6IXGGyBMk5aUT9k3sZi
https://theconversation.com/us-communities-can-suffer-long-term-consequences-after-immigration-raids-96399
The denial of reality among at least the better educated is strong, and strongly motivated.
The nuance is buried under slogans and it’s only when the “I didn’t expect the leopards to eat *my* face” moments happen to people who voted for it do people go “No, this isn’t what I wanted”
It also frustrates me that issue polling like this is taken as some immutable barometer of permanent public opinion. If an idea core to our morality polls poorly, we should not change our morality. We should invest in communicating why we believe what we do! Polls can move
Ask people if the illegal immigrants should be deported? Majority support. Ask them if they want raids & family separation & mass detentions of undocumented workers and you get very different answers