> If you are barely making ends meet, you don't want a candidate talking about compassion for people from less fortunate countries, when out in the countryside of America you see a lot of people who could hardly be less fortunate.
I can understand this statement as my paternal family is indeed in this state and has been for almost a century. They are too proud to take my "handouts" which I offer of around $50 a month. They would be greatly offended if I actually offered what I could afford.
I am not a liberal, I am actually a centrist on the upper left hand corner of left wing and libertarian. I have different, but equally heated debates between my liberal and conservative friends.
With all of that said I can tell you the following based on my world travels. If you have running water, a flushable toilet, electricity and a foundation in your house you may be US poor, but are most definitely not globally poor. There are more globally poor people in the world then all of the people in the entire US.
If you have not lost a house due to tragedy such as tornado, hurricane, fire or bombing then you are not likely to understand the refugee issue. You may think you get it and if you are a liberal I would say you are less likely to get it, based on what my liberal friends say. This kind of loss is not a "set back" and can take years if not a decade to recover from. If you are lucky you have insurance that works and rebuild. If you are in a war zone there is no rebuild. I actually have more Christian conservatives that support refugees as a calling of their faith then liberals that would actually host a refugee. This could vary but it is the case in the area, no SV. At the same time I have more "Christian" evangelicals that want nothing to do with refugees.
With all of that said I still don't understand the desire to stay in an economic desert. My paternal side long lost their farm after letting the slaves go yet still have a desire to stay in the same area. I just don't get that. Maybe I am strange but if there are no jobs or economic opportunity why stay? As the libertarian in me why should I care about you choice to stay? If you, or for that fact my family, decide to stay in a place that does not warrant growth why should I sacrifice my liberty for your choice? Why should I not be allowed to support those from forgien lands that I think will increase my community? Why should those that would give up everything to get a change to be here be placed below those that would not even bother to move to a place of greater opportunity less then a 1000 miles away? What is so Holy about the "countryside" that necessitates cities of great wealth from providing to others? Why should my tax dollars grant those whom want comfort to stay in a situation that cannot be pulled out of yet prevent it from providing to those that wish to better themselves?
This is not even compassion this is just good business sense and ROI.