Reply #132: That's what people said about the Democrats' support for civil rights in the 50s and 60s n/t

[EffieBlack]

It may not be politically popular to stand up for unpopular people, but it is the right thing to do - and history always vindicate those who have the courage to stand up in the face of demagoguery, fear, jingoism and scapegoating.

This may be the achilles heal of the Democratic Party - if by that you mean that they may lose some support from certain quarters. But those who refuse to give in to the Lou Dobbsian anti-immigrant "let's just call them all illegals" hysteria are truly representing the ideals of this party and will eventually - and probably not in the too-distant future - be correctly seen as being on the right side of the debate and history.