Might have to vote for him in order to stop Democrats & Republicans from continuing to make America like Brazil. Ezra Klein You said being a democratic socialist means a more international view. I think if you take global poverty that seriously, it leads you to conclusions that in the US are considered out of political bounds. Things like sharply raising the level of immigration we permit, even up to a level of open borders. About sharply increasing ... Bernie Sanders Open borders? No, that's a Koch brothers proposal. Ezra Klein Really? Bernie Sanders Of course. That's a right-wing proposal, which says essentially there is no United States. ... Ezra Klein It would make a lot of global poor richer, wouldn't it? Bernie Sanders It would make everybody in America poorer —you're doing away with the concept of a nation state, and I don't think there's any country in the world that believes in that. If you believe in a nation state or in a country called the United States or UK or Denmark or any other country, you have an obligation in my view to do everything we can to help poor people. What right-wing people in this country would love is an open-border policy. Bring in all kinds of people, work for $2 or $3 an hour, that would be great for them. I don't believe in that. I think we have to raise wages in this country, I think we have to do everything we can to create millions of jobs. You know what youth unemployment is in the United States of America today? If you're a white high school graduate, it's 33 percent, Hispanic 36 percent, African American 51 percent. You think we should open the borders and bring in a lot of low-wage workers, or do you think maybe we should try to get jobs for those kids? I think from a moral responsibility we've got to work with the rest of the industrialized world to address the problems of international poverty, but you don't do that by making people in this country even poorer. https://www.vox.com/2015/7/28/9014491/bernie-sanders-vox-conversation
How is not having open borders anti-immigration? Does that make all countries anti-immigration?
Exactly. People build him up to be a personal/political Jesus by inventing things that align with their beliefs. It’s complete hero-worship bullshit.
Because it’s contrary to what Democrats have been saying the last year - it shows how out of touch the “Abolish ICE” part of the left wing is.
Sorry to be ageist, but he’s too old to be President.
Bernie's still got a chance 😂
This is why Trump is smart: both sides hate (illegal) immigration and fear they’ve been dicked over by global elites when it comes to trade.
Not just illegal but all types of immigration, including H1B.
H1B is not immigration.
Who are these democrats who argue for open borders? Never heard of one. Bernie is right. It’s an insane concept. But it’s more of a divide and conquer talking point republicans use to falsely characterize democrats. I come home to visit my crazy republican in-laws during Christmas and they use this same ridiculous talking point on me and call me a globalist. WTF?! Are these idiots all watching Fox News and listening to right wing radio?
Bernie is also a socialist. Do you really want to pay 60% of your tc in taxes?
Yes. Because paying nearly 40% and getting nothing is much worse than 60% and getting a lot.
Except you’ll still get nothing, and no way he can pay for it all by taxing the rich at only 60%.
A quick Google finds youth unemployment is 8.1%. And right wing =/= globalist. It's obvious trump and his supporters are in the right wing protectionist camp that would like to control immigration. Many democrats are globalists, I would go so far to say it is the majority position of the democratic party which is why I'm not surprised they support illegal immigration.
Corporations are operating globally for decades, being nationalist is simply silly at this point. Economy drives policies
A bit longer than decades, imo globalism was perfected by the British Empire in the 1800s. But clearly some benefit and some lose so it depends where you sit. Globalism to a great extent relies on the exploitation of cheap labour so I can see why not everyone is a fan.
Bernie Sanders doesn’t even exist. He’s too good to be true as a wedge for the Russians, therefore he must be their invention.
He is now running on Trump agenda, because he knows that is the only way to presidency. From now to 2020 elections you will see a lot of laws being proposed to curb all types of immigrations.