Both political parties have blind spots regarding specific issues and topics, which exist for a variety of reasons. However, the Democratic Party's blindness to immigration is one of the most bizarre that has popped up in recent decades. And what's strange still about it is that there's an underlying racism to it that they can't see.

The best example is one that happened this week in Vermont, when Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT), who claims to be "Vermont's first woman and openly LGBTQ+ member of Congress," went off on a tangent on immigration. She said, "If we don't have avenues for people to come here legally to work or to build a home here… we're not gonna have anyone around to wipe our asses because we don't have enough people."

The viral clip exploded across the internet, with everyone naturally confused at how anyone could view immigrants like that. The local press tried to help her clean it up by saying, "What Balint was trying to say is that without increased immigration, there wouldn't be enough people to perform essential jobs, for example in nursing homes where there is a shortage of workers in Vermont."

But it's not hard to see the underlying thread there: immigrants are the lower caste that do everything for the wealthy Americans. It's a view that only immigrants do the low-paying or below-minimum-wage jobs to make the rest of America affordable.

She's not the first person to hint at this. Catherine Rampell, a columnist at The Washington Post, said the same on CNN during a clash with Scott Jennings. After Jennings said Trump's deportations would help Americans, Rampell fired back, "He's going to deport 20 million people? ... The people who pick your crops? The people who process your meat? The people who care for your grandmother? The people who serve all sorts of critical functions in this country?"

Immigrants under this view come here as a servant caste to serve Americans until we use them up. And then we take in even more, which spurs the need for illegal immigrants.

This view gets the American view of immigration exactly wrong. The traditional American dream for immigrants was to come here, assimilate, and get the opportunity to become anything. The liberal view denies this and views them as the waitstaff for wealthy liberal cities.

It's also a remarkable turn for Democrats, who once claimed to represent unions. For the better part of the 20th Century, both Democrats and unions opposed immigration of any kind because they viewed immigrants as taking native-born American jobs.

Even Bernie Sanders understood this and opposed immigrants coming to America. For a socialist trying to build a welfare state where everyone gets something from the state, immigrants increase the population and make that dream impossible. Additionally, he shared the unions' view of preferring American labor over immigrant labor.

As Democrats have become centrally focused on cities, to the exclusion of everything else, they've taken a different view. They now view both immigrants and rural America as the servants to these bastions of liberal policies. I grew up in rural Tennessee, where farmers uniformly voted for Democrats. Now, you can't find a Democrat in those same counties for miles.

Trump's position is essentially no different from what Democrats held in the 20th Century. Conservatism has historically been more supportive of immigration, with stricter vetting. Bringing people here who want to be a part of the country, follow its customs, and build with everyone is a vital part of the America's ideal of itself.

Democrats have tossed that aside, believing anyone can come here for any reason, and they're openly fighting ICE agents in major cities. The cheap wage argument should ring some familiar bells because it's not far removed from the pro-slavery arguments of the antebellum South.

If you view immigrants as valuable, you then push the notion they can be anything. But Democrats only see cheap landscapers, busboys, and farm workers to enable more affordable living in states with high taxes. It's similar to how Democrats in large tax bases demand special SALT tax exemptions, demanding tax breaks, while everyone else has to fill in the gap.

The problem for Democrats is that America doesn't believe in this notion of immigrants as a caste of servants. We tell ourselves stories of people becoming something out of nothing. Democrats depend on cheap servants, and Trump wants to deport criminals.

It's no wonder Trump laps the field on this topic, even with minority groups. He states the obvious thing that most people believe. Democrats have taken on a bizarre belief, built on racist notions, that immigrants are just cheap labor for them to use in their businesses.

It's bizarre to witness a party that claims to be hyper-inclusive of everyone take this path without recognizing it at all. Not even election blowouts are waking them up.