• Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Anyways, she already massively hurt blue collar americans with her border policy

    Except that over the last 40 years conservatives have done more to hurt blue collar workers than 4 years of border policy ever could.

    Starting in the late 1970s policymakers began dismantling all the policy bulwarks helping to ensure that typical workers’ wages grew with productivity. Excess unemployment was tolerated to keep any chance of inflation in check. Raises in the federal minimum wage became smaller and rarer. Labor law failed to keep pace with growing employer hostility toward unions. Tax rates on top incomes were lowered. And anti-worker deregulatory pushes—from the deregulation of the trucking and airline industries to the retreat of anti-trust policy to the dismantling of financial regulations and more—succeeded again and again. https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

    If American workers had rights and protections, immigrants wouldn’t be able to drive down the price of labor so badly - but it’s not the immigrants that are the problem, it’s the fervant belief that the “free market” yields the best results. You see what the invisible hand of the market does, and blame the immigrants. You blame that bad ole Kamala. That’s just how the wealthy factory owners want it.

    Kamala didn’t hurt you, the heritage foundation did.