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What you're missing is the "left" has long since transferred its affections away from poor people who are not wards of the state. "Woke" politics magically app
by scottlocklin 6y ago
What you're missing is the "left" has long since transferred its affections away from poor people who are not wards of the state.
"Woke" politics magically appeared in 2008 when leftists were manning occupy wall street, which pretty much immediately degenerated into escalating virtue signalling instead of, you know, making some reforms to wall street. I'm sure that was a total coincidence.
- rmk 6y agoWell, it did appear to result in the CFPB (the thing that Elizabeth Warren was heading?) and Dodd-Frank, perhaps (one can never attribute these things to some particular movement or event, I feel). I don't know if they have been defanged already. Anyhoo, so what is the pet constituency of the left? They do appear to be falling over themselves to regularise illegal immigrants (perhaps the Latinos in Texas handing Trump a win will give them pause?), while doing nothing for legal immigrants (who power the only growth sector America has going for it, technology.) They certainly don't care much for the working poor, as you have rightly pointed out.
- scottlocklin 6y agoRelated: a "stirring" defense of child labor from a Gates foundation apparatchik that got published in the left-leaning guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/nov/06/child-labour-doesnt-have-to-be-exploitation-it-gave-me-life-skills https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/nov/06/c... Pretty sure Gates is a Democrat! Yeah, man, Child Labor laws are so 19th century.