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Because "blame immigrants," and the like, are highly profitable distractions for the oligarchs, and the politicians and mainstream news they control, to run on everyday people while wealth keeps getting transferred from public to private hands and debt from private to public hands
I always found the immigration thing exceedingly ironic in the U.S. and Canada, both countries that were founded on immigration.
Yup. Welcome to White exceptionalism. The framing of Thanksgiving is quite something too