Throwing money at recent immigrants in return for votes was a pillar of the FDR coalition and it’s a core pillar of the Obama coalition. It’s simply inevitable as the culture of the United States converges to be similar to those of the other countries in the hemisphere. There is no constituency for fiscal responsibility in any of these countries.

Your game here seems to be throwing out simplistic partisan tripe, to either prompt an equally-inflammatory opposite-partisan response that will leave you feeling vindicated, or you can always fall back to arguing the shreds of truth in it while continuing to ignore the big picture.

I would ask you to "do better", but the whole problem is that once you've bought into the contradictions of destructionism, there is no doing better without coming to terms with what you're actually advocating. Talking about an "an Argentina-like reset" you're closer than most, but I suspect that's due to a better ability for rationalization.

In other conversations of ours, you've gone on about the need to preserve American culture in the face of immigration. So once again I will implore you personally, to do your part by working to adopt our culture rather than proudly championing the exact zero-sum politics you're bemoaning (regardless of having changed the color of the partisan flag you're waving). A core tenet of American culture is personal responsibility (for better and for worse), and so these types of choices right here are where the rubber meets the road.

> Your game here seems to be throwing out simplistic partisan tripe

It's not a partisan point at all, it's an observation about how immigration and changes in the polity interacts with politics. Left-wing parties rely on immigrants for votes all over the developed world. And the larger topic of how foreigners influence a democratic system is one Aristotle was writing about even in 350 BC.

> do your part by working to adopt our culture rather than proudly championing the exact zero-sum politics you're bemoaning

You should read up on game theory. It doesn't matter what I do, the millions of other immigrants that come to the U.S. will change its culture to be more like their homelands'. Your only choice is whether you want the left-wing version of those countries' politics, or the right-wing version? Both result in fiscal disaster, followed by an Argentina-style correction. (We should be so lucky--Javier Milei seems to be doing a pretty good job.)

Truthfulness does not imply that something is not partisan. That it's brought up as a talking point to motivate a certain line of thinking is what makes it partisan.

> You should read up on game theory. It doesn't matter what I do

How does this differ from "I might as well drop my trash on the ground in the park, because everyone else is going to do it anyway" ?

You're fallaciously excluding the middle - there will always be some people who drop their trash on the ground. So a clean park must employ groundskeepers to pick it up. But such centralized action can never make up for mass distributed behavior, so it behooves us all to adhere to and propagate good culture that keeps most people from throwing their trash on the ground. And the same dynamic applies to basically every societal construct.

So no, I do not buy your [self-serving] argument that the culture you're simultaneously bemoaning and also engaging in is inevitable.