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On the contrary, their stance is more in line with the traditional view of progressivism. It's only fairly recently that free market capitalists tried to push f
by swebs 9y ago
On the contrary, their stance is more in line with the traditional view of progressivism. It's only fairly recently that free market capitalists tried to push for open borders and mass immigration under the guise of "progress". There's a simple reason why the big tech companies want more immigrants. It suppresses wages. It changes the dynamics of supply and demand of the workforce in order to take power away from workers and give it to employers.
If you're against the 1%, you should be against these neoliberal immigration policies.
- maoistinquisitr 9y agoWhat's changed is the needs of the political classes. The democrat party has been in something of a death spiral for decades (arguably since the 50s) and is critically dependant on imported voters. Without the massive immigration that has happened post-1965, the political party configuration would have almost certainly fractured and reformed along quite different lines by now. But ongoing immigration has kept the democrat party in its rather ossified form highly competitive (as they lost "American" voters, they gained immigrant votes). This is why they were so terrified of Bernie Sanders. He got a lot of support from working class whites who have been trending Republican for decades. But a figure like Sanders would derail the agenda (immigration and all) that is keeping a never ending stream of Kennedys in power.