Official 2020 US Election: Democratic Party Discussion

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Jaicee said:

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(Seriously, do you really think Donald Trump won rural America so big in 2016 because of fucking IMMIGRATION? Really? Only rich people care about immigration! People here would LOVE to have more people move in, if only so maybe we'd have a tax base to fund public services with again! No, he did better than Republicans usually do in rural America because he made a frequent habit of visiting smaller communities and talking about doing something, however contrived, about the flow of drugs, not just pledging to throw some money at the crisis from major metropolitan parts of New York and California like Hillary Clinton. I mean resources directed toward rehabilitation certainly help and everything, but what people REALLY want are the root causes of this problem addressed. And they don't connect to expressions like "We're going to put a lot of coal miners out of work." Trump hasn't delivered much in regards to the drug problem, which is probably part of why his level of support among low-income white Americans has fallen off since election day. There is an opening there. The Democrats would do well to take advantage of that opening. Sorry for the sermon.)

Regime change war.

Plenty of poor people do care about immigration,too. The reason for this is mostly that they are jobless or not earning enough to sustain themselves and then somebody comes along and saying that immigrants took the job that person ought to have. Rural regions tend to have much less immigrants and thus are more susceptible for this kind of scaremongering, even though with some logic thinking it would be clear that this can't be true (how could immigrants stole their jobs if there are none around?).

This is why in Europe, poor people were by far the most adamant against the immigration waves from Syria and northern Africa and along farmers the main source of voters for the populist and eurosceptic parties, especially the Front National (now Rassemblement National) in France, the AFD in Germany, UKIP and Brexit party in the UK, Lega and Five Star Movement in Italy... (The list goes on and on)

I do agree about all the rest, including the part that you cut, but saying that only rich people care about immigration is just not true.