I don't know who Jessie Memer is but I wholeheartedly agree

IMO that is how Democrats lose the Independents - use bad logic to promote a good cause.
1. Undocumented immigrants are not a non-issue. They have broken the country's Immigration Laws and must be prosecuted. They also adversely influence the supply/demand balance in labor resources market.
2. "They are all poor" because there aren't enough jobs that match the skills they have/they dont have the skills that are needed for jobs available.
3. Income inequality is the effect of progress in automation and in manufactuting technology. History repeats itself - "The Industrial Revolution is widely considered to have significantly contributed to increased income inequality, as the owners of factories and means of production became vastly wealthier while many factory workers endured low wages and poor working conditions, leading to a widening gap between the rich and the poor."
4. Poverty spreads with inflation. But inflation is not a consequence of wage stagnation. Inflation occurs because of scarcity of goods in the market place together with excessive money supply.
5. Emploers cannot arbitrarily raise wages. Wage stagnation is a concequence of supply-demand imbalance in labor resources. Undocumented immigrants raise availabilty of labor without there being a balancing increase in demand for labor and thus contribute heavily to wage stagnation.
Think about how things may have turned out differently if Democrats had stayed away from idiological proclamations and exhibited a spirit of co-opeation with the other half of the voters rather than proprose to fight and said, for example:
We will work with the industry to offer programs for assessing the labor needs of the market and help initiate re-training of eligible workers to meet the skills required in the changing economy/market and thus reduce the income inequality.
Proposing to fight with the other half and promising to be their President as well doesn't quite rhyme, does it?
We forgot .. what helped us win two terms was .. proclaiming .. We are not the Blue States and the Red States, we are the UNITED STATES ..

@AndyNotBorowitz @AndyNotBorowitz I agree with much of what you said based in a Utopian society. However you missed the fact that underneath your intelligent economic statements there are major societal and cultural mores divisions going on that have also severely divided our families and the country as a whole. Yep. There’s a lot more than economic inequality and pandemic/supply chain recovery problems going on here.

It might have begun with “taking a knee” years ago. Remember that? It happens when you have a media savvy fraud and conman who’s been in the public eye for 10 years with a wanton desire to rule as an autocrat at the expense of minorities and immigrants of color. He has continued his societal and cultural divisions but now adding The Big Lie to stay relevant throughout the Biden presidency; criticizing him personally and politically and, in many respects, actively working against him via the House of Representatives. He used a squadron of high priced lawyers to keep his indictment appeals and the media reports front and center for 3+ years, whining the unfairness of it all, and compounding the division. Now it’s become almost impossible to propose anything to the sovereigns who hate government and licensing controls and the MAGA “other side” who profess their own vision of white Christianity and get any affirmation from Independents. The sides are now predisposed to distrust each other.

Trump’s way always serves himself first but now there are lots of people out there, influencers, who are eager to stroke the tiger and jump on the Trump bandwagon for their own selfish interests. It’s become dangerous.

These people must eventually fail in the bright light of day for all to see and the only way that happens is if they’re in power. Your words make sense only given the fact that there were always TWO thinking groups running for president and BOTH wanted to unite our country and we know that’s false.

@BabyLady Joseph de Maistre, the French philosopher, said that "in a democracy, people get the government they deserve.” The conman, like all politicians, is after power, but, yes, "with a wanton desire to rule as an autocrat". Don't criticize the conman! He was smart enough to con majority of the 156 million people who voted! It is a surprising shame that the Democrats have yet to learn that presidential elections in the US are won by candidates, not by parties. Remember, "Elections have consequences" and when you do not vote, be prepared to face the consequences!