by Bernie Sanders won in the New Hampshire Democratic primary and beat Hillary Clinton.[embedded content]And people on the left should take careful notice of Sanders’ outstanding good sense in opposing open borders, as we see in the video below.[embedded content]In this respect, Bernie Sanders’ views are just like those of Ralph Nader.[embedded content]The concept of open borders is a lunatic libertarian idea, whether from the anarcho-capitalist libertarians or far left libertarians.Bizarrely, in Europe, parts of the left have gone off the deep end in their weird, almost cult-like obsession with open borders.For those who want a balanced left-wing view on open borders, I recommend Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things they Don’t Tell you about Capitalism (Bloomsbury Press, London, 2011), p. 23ff.
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And people on the left should take careful notice of Sanders’ outstanding good sense in opposing open borders, as we see in the video below.
In this respect, Bernie Sanders’ views are just like those of Ralph Nader.
The concept of open borders is a lunatic libertarian idea, whether from the anarcho-capitalist libertarians or far left libertarians.
Bizarrely, in Europe, parts of the left have gone off the deep end in their weird, almost cult-like obsession with open borders.
For those who want a balanced left-wing view on open borders, I recommend Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things they Don’t Tell you about Capitalism (Bloomsbury Press, London, 2011), p. 23ff.