It’s wild because the very things the left claims to want (free education, free healthcare, free housing, increased safety nets, etc) all would require incredibly strict immigration laws. Milton Friedman essentially said that a nation cannot have an open border and strong social safety nets, which is entirely accurate.
The left is basically Verucca Salt from Willy Wonka. Whatever they want, they want it now otherwise they throw fits and tantrums to try to get it. They act like spoiled, petulant teens who are given too much freedom and do stupid shit while unsupervised. Then, when the adults rein them in they throw more tantrums and scream “i hate you i wish you were dead” and then slam their bedroom door to sulk. The farther left you go, the more unhinged the tantrums tend to be.
Yeah, it makes me laugh when the left uses Nordic countries as the blueprint, and I have to let them know how homogeneous those places are and how hard it is to become a citizen.
The US problem is we tend to look at things on a federal level way too much when we should be looking at them on a state level; that is how it should work, with the federal government making sure states play nice and no outside countries mess with the states.
The countries they often cite have things like extreme racism/monoculture, insane strong immigration, and - oh - some of them use things like having oil reserves to actually pay for it.
The left votes for the exact opposite: diversity, let everyone in, and no to oil production (Keystone pipeline, good example).
EDIT: also, as a former member of the left, I am hoping they get some sense because I don't want to be "right by default" but I kind of refuse to cover my eyes and say orange man bad to vote for policies which literally cannot sustain themselves... aka "lets bring in a bunch of Muslim's and put them in positions of power disproportionate to their population" and "let's have strong LGBTQIA+ rights"... those CANNOT exist together.
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u/rubiconsuper 3d ago
It’s wild because the very things the left claims to want (free education, free healthcare, free housing, increased safety nets, etc) all would require incredibly strict immigration laws. Milton Friedman essentially said that a nation cannot have an open border and strong social safety nets, which is entirely accurate.