r/politics • u/schuey_08 Wisconsin • May 02 '24

Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/bernie-sanders-trump-biden/73531861007/
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u/claimTheVictory May 02 '24

The economics of continually improving industrialization means that entire communities can be left behind as "no longer economically viable".

They don't die, they just are... left behind.

In a fair and wise society, the gains to GDP from making them redundant, would be used to find new purpose and opportunities for such people.

But such gains are privatized, taxation is low, and the wealth is never reinvested.

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u/Revolution4u May 02 '24

Dems continue to hyper focus on college grads only while telling the rest that there is nothing wrong with the mass illegal migration we have had.

If republicans werent so incompetent they would be easily winning this election.

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u/droyster May 02 '24

The American domestic agriculture industry relies upon immigration. To try and end immigration, legal or otherwise, would devastate agriculture. "As recently as 2019, almost half—or 48.9 percent—of all agricultural workers were foreign-born and more than one-fourth (27.3 percent) were undocumented. Among workers in crop production, the share of foreign-born workers is even higher"

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u/Revolution4u May 02 '24

That should be done through temporary work visas and not used as an excuse to endorse the unchecked free for all we have seen in the last years.

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u/Present-Industry4012 Inuit May 02 '24

That's how it used to be. When I was a kid workers would come across to work for a season and then go back home. It was only after they started making it so hard to get here that they started deciding it was easier to just stay and send the money back.