For context, the following is a tangent from this:
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=9671.0The immediate context:
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=9671.msg165167#msg165167http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=9671.msg165289#msg165289
LA isn't first-world anymore, either, demographically.
Bo-ring.
We can't get engineers with upper middle class incomes to move to LA to do much-needed work due to the cost of non-crime-ridden housing.
What you mean to say is that engineers with 'upper middle class' incomes can't live the lifestyle they're accustomed to in LA, because real estate prices are nuts.
(Cherry) Pick your measure(1): income, earnings, wealth, whatever. EI is supposed to be something progressives/liberals/leftists(2) are against and work to minimize. According to the left, EI is A Very Bad Thing. Usually visions of pore, starvin' workers are described, along with cant such as, "The rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer."
Imagine my surprise when I pointed out to a self-described liberal that LA, over the last couple of decades, has gone from a city with the usual spread of poor, middle, and affluent to third-world levels of economic bifurcation; the response was "Bo-ring."
I got to wondering: Why did the left not worry that every time an illegal wades through the Rio Grande and reaches America, EI in America increases?
I thought of several possibilities.
Wishful Thinking: The influx of illegals gives the left the America of its mind's eye.
America was not, is not, the Dickensian dystopia described by them. A hale & hearty middle class made up the majority, with relatively small destitute and affluent classes. Dumping illegals by the millions into America makes America more like what they
think America is and meets their expectations.
Economic Self-Interest: So many in the social work and other bureaucracies are employed to deal with the added burden to gov't & taxpayers, that a reduction in illegals means fewer social work jobs.
Mo' Illegals, Mo' Bettuh: The constant influx of illegals allows the Spanish-speaking to maintain the critical mass of ethnicity to act as a barrier to assimilation into American society. Since the most significant political organ of the left in America (Democratic Party) is a coalition of balkanized ethnic grievance groups, letting one of those groups assimilate means less political power for the left.
Doesn't Rate: In the Hierarchy of Lefty Pieties, illegal immigrants rate higher than efforts to combat economic inequality.
Sometimes values can conflict. Another example is milk for poor babies vs the environment. The left makes much noise about poor families not being able to feed themselves. It also squawks about the environment. Well, this conflict comes down on the side of the environment and on the head of poor folks trying to feed their families. Oxygenation mandates in fuels, restricting the use of certain chemicals in agriculture, and driving up the cost of fuel all demonstrate that the environment rates more than poor families' nutrition.
Bring It On!: Will result in the "internal contradictions" of capitalism bringing its own collapse more quickly.
Some of the hardest of the hard left likely think that if they can make American reality into the nightmare described in their tracts, the Marxist apocalypse will be closer at hand.
The Solution to (White) Pollution Is Dilution:It is more important to swamp the descendants of the evil, white, euro-centric, penis-people with the brown "masses" than to combat EI.
Since Western Civ is responsible for all evil in the world, the West was ethnically white/European, and America is too white anyway, it makes sense to dilute the whiteness of America by any means necessary.
What do you think?
(1) If you don't at least know the difference between wealth, income, and earnings, you need to get yourself some basic economics education. If you don't know how they can be mis-used when debating policy and economics, you need some work, too.
(2) Referred to collectively in this post as "the left." I know there is some sunlight between most contemporary liberals and hard lefties.
