The obscenity at the border right now belies every "left case for borders" argument.
As internationalists, we stand in solidarity with other people struggling to survive.
Calling for tough borders is asking your own ruling elite to police the working class of another country.
— Sarah Leonard (@sarahrlnrd) November 25, 2018
I do not agree with unleashing CS gas on kids, but what about the working class of this country — you know, the people who already live here?
Trust funders like she almost certainly is (most journalists are, even Lefty ones) don’t have to worry about an influx of labor causing an already-terrible $10 an hour job to be done by someone willing to do it for $6 an hour.
As the opposite of a trust funder (my parents actually stole money from me), a decent job is the only thing that anchored my dad. When he lost it our entire existence went into a tailspin from which the family never recovered financially and emotionally.
But of course trust funders don’t care about that because throwing open the borders and unleashing whatever occurs to the working class doesn’t matter to them at all. Not in the least.
You know, there’s millions of journalists and writers around the world who’d love to come to America if they could to compete with these amoral putzes. Why not let them? These terrible journalists need the competition. And I wish it went without saying that someone earning $10 an hour driving a forklift doesn’t need competition from anyone, despite whatever ninnyhammers like Sarah Leonard thinks about it.
She’s not the one paying the price.