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>Hopefully, the left wing wakes up too and brings forth some candidates who can address the real root causes instead of blaming it on immigration. And if the r
by Nadya 10y ago
>Hopefully, the left wing wakes up too and brings forth some candidates who can address the real root causes instead of blaming it on immigration.
And if the real root cause is immigration? If the answer is so-obviously-not immigration policies, then what? Nobody seems to have an answer.
In every modern Western society - it seems Liberals/Leftists are always so fearful of losing the minority votes that they'll prefer no answer over one that could offend their voting base.
- socialist_coder 10y agoYou are right, the vast majority of liberal and leftist politicians are afraid of offending their base, but it's not their voting base. It's their funding base. Money drives politics in the US, and that comes from fossil fuels, pharma, defense, banking/finance, tech, and other capitalist interests. It does not come from minoroties or any of their actual voters. Politicians could care less about their constituents, they just need to balance what their corporate backers want against what their constituents want, which is usually very different. So, the root cause lies there. Until we somehow change this, money and corporate interests will continue to rule, at the expense of the people. The longer it goes on without more politicians addressing this, the more people will fall into the right wing fascist trap of blaming immigrants.