Left Eating Their Own: Dem Rep Claims that Senate Dems Care More About LGBT Than Illegal Aliens

National Review editor Jonah Goldberg drew up an expert analysis of what holds the Democratic Party together and makes them an incredible political juggernaut. They are not an ideological coalition based on individual liberty, limited government, and a respect for constitutional governance. 

They are a coalition of differing and otherwise bickering coalition of ideologies, all with different agendas. Labor unions and LGBT groups, for example, will often stand on the same side because their gross, over-arching goal is more power coupled with an expansion of the state to benefit their pet interests.

What is happening now, however, is that different left-wing coalitions are gaining more or disparate power in the federal government at the expense of other interests. Bi-coastal elites have demagogued immigration for decades, but not once have they intimated their interest in living next to men and women of different heritage or ethnic status.

The Democratic elements with the most power have the most money, and that means Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and the trendy New Yorker set. They don't care about ethnic minorities. They don't really care about Latinos.

They only care about those votes and enriching themselves through expanded government largesse.

Now retiring Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-Illinois) hascalled out this double standard:

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) accused Democrats on Monday of caring more about same-sex marriage than Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and Latinos after Democrats caved to end the three-day government shutdown.
Gutierrez blasted Democrats for acquiescing to a three-week spending bill in exchange for a DACA vote, adding that he did not see “how a vague promise from the Senate Majority Leader about a vague policy to be voted on in the future helps the Dreamers or maximizes leverage the Democrats and American people have over the Republicans right now.”

“If the Republicans said we are ending same-sex marriage, but we promise Democrats a vote later; or we approve of oil drilling in every national park, but you’ll have a vote later – do you think the Democrats would say yes?,” Gutierrez asked. “This shows me that when it comes to immigrants, Latinos and their families, Democrats are still not willing to go to the mat to allow people in my community to live in our country legally.”

Of course, anyone could argue that radical communist Luis Gutierrez is just posturing, too, even though he’s about to retire from Congress.

Where have the Democrats been all these years on this contentious immigration issue? In 2007, more Democrats than Republicans voted against an immigration reform package. In 2010, Obama had consummate one-party control of Congress, and Democrats did nothing on immigration.

Now they want to play up the issue again just to score political points with their base, but their base is beyond frustrated with Democrats. They have been promised by leaders in both chambers that they will get a Clean Dream Act vote. It’s not going to happen, and the 3-Day shutdown, which Schumer lost, confirms that any kind of deal is dead on arrival.

It’s not going to happen, folks. No matter what President Trump says or does not say, and no matter how challenging the situation may seem for Republicans to demand that their own caucus hold the line against amnesty, Democrats are going to fail on every single promise. Democratic lawmakers will behold a decimated grassroots, so dispirited that they will not vote in 2018, all but assuring that Republicans hold onto power in both chambers.

The coalition of ideologies is falling apart, of course, because the resources of the state are ultimately limited, and the competing third-party interests have found that they have to fight hard against other interests to ensure they get the most crumbs or get the best seat at the table with the governing party.