Partisan lenses seem to distort everything these days.
It isn't as much I find your views partisan. I believe your methods are counterproductive. You constantly berate those who don't agree with you as someone intellectually or morally corrupt or inadequate. People have genuine disagreements about what is right and wrong given the same facts. You seem to believe only one interpretation is possible - yours - and any other is wrong. While I agree that it is better to be right than wrong, you lack with wisdom and humility to see that your certainty in your own "rightness" is a delusion.
There is no clear right and wrong in political issues. There is only which group benefits and which group pays the price. Over the last 40 years, I've watched the political right through the Republican party divert all the benefits that used to go to the poor and middle class up to the wealthiest 1%. They accomplished this through unchecked growth of monopolies, favorable tax policy, gutting of all labor protections, and opposition to any social program that might benefit the masses. If you want to cloak that in moral terms, you could judge that as evil. It certainly hasn't benefitted ordinary Americans.
Since you believe I am wrong about immigration, let's look a bit more deeply at it. First, i don't hold a partisan view that unchecked immigration is a good idea, so don't assume I do. I am merely pointing out that blaming immigration for the lack of wage growth is not pinpointing the biggest cause. The decline of power of labor unions and collective bargaining and the opposition to any raises in minimum wages is what's keeping wages down.
Personally, I'm surprised that Democrats haven't used immigration as a wedge issue against Republicans. The Republican elites certainly do not want to stop the flow of cheap labor that they can exploit. I live in an area where migrant farm workers come in to harvest crops for wealthy corporate farmers. If you shut off this flow of labor, these farmers, who are solidly right-wing Republicans, would have to pay a great deal more to get Americans to pick their produce. I think that would be great for wages, but it would also cause a doubling of prices on local produce to pay for the increased wages paid, or many crops simply won't be grown at all.
Ask yourself this question: who is employing these immigrants creating the crisis at the border? Do you believe the employers exploiting these workers are left-wing Democrats? in the real world, it's wealthly right-wing Republican voters who benefit from the cheap labor. From 2016-2018, Republicans controled everything, but did you see them pass immigration reform? No. Because the elites who fund these politicians wanted to continue exploiting this cheap labor.
The financial elites on the political left, mostly tech company executives in Silcon Valley, want to loosen immigration restrictions because they have a lack of labor overall. Brining in programmers from India solves a labor shortage crisis. They've already raised wages for Americans with these skills to astronomical heights, and they can't find enough programmers to do the work. Are they supressing wages by doing this? Homegrown talent hasn't sprung up to meet the need.
