by John Haidt says the working class mainly vote conservative but one of the reasons for this is to much immigration which the working class blame on the liberals. But mass immigration has really been the policy of the right wing neoliberals as businesses wanted cheaper labour to compete with the third world. Also, immigration pushed up demand for housing which was good for landlords and bankers as the value of rents and mortgages rose. Immigration just pushes up GDP. In the end people love money more then their county.I have a lot of sympathy for the working class, and middle class, who don't want to see their culture change overnight. People don't like change and for good reason: for millennia nothing changed very much, hunter gatherers just learnt how to live from their parents, and if
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I have a lot of sympathy for the working class, and middle class, who don't want to see their culture change overnight. People don't like change and for good reason: for millennia nothing changed very much, hunter gatherers just learnt how to live from their parents, and if change come about it meant something had gone wrong, like a famine, drought, or war, etc. I'm a liberal who prides himself on anti-racism, but do I want to see my country become like another country overnight, hell no, I want to see other counties becoming more like my country with tollerant, diverse, liberal views. The socialists and liberal need to cotton onto what excessive immigration means because if they don't they are liable to stay out of power forever.
Read below and see how neoliberal capitalism drives people around the world into poverty, which makes many of them want to immigrate to the West to get a better life leaving their families and friends behind, which can be heart breaking for them and their families. Kevin KV