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« on: June 23, 2017, 12:59:39 PM »
« edited: June 23, 2017, 01:01:49 PM by Orser67 »

Well, I don't consider Greenwald to be a liberal, but otherwise I agree with the general sentiment of the article.

To really address wealth inequality, we need to make labor scarcer, and we can only do that by reducing immigration.

I also think that immigration probably hurts liberalism, at least in the medium-term. It's not a coincidence that the two largest expansions of government (New Deal and Great Society) happened during the period when the foreign-born population was relatively low (between the Immigration Act of 1924 and the period when the effects of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 began to be felt). It's a lot harder to add new government programs when conservatives can portray them as hand-outs to non-whites.
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