I don't understand the point being made here about unionization. Fall in union density and labor power has been a pervasively global phenomenon over the last 40 years; far from weakening that argument, the facts objectively support it.
I am so tired of everyone who is somewhere the to right of moderate being called “far-right” while actual communists are only called leftists. The message I get is that the media believes that there is no such thing as merely right or right-of-center. There are the good guys to the left of center, the wishy-washy moderates, and then the far right. It undermines everything said after “far-right.”
I was reading a book from 2008 that was shockingly prescient about education polarization called "Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State." It mentions how, at the time, income polarization was mostly between the rich in states, while low-income Americans voted similarly wherever they lived. This seems consistent with Inglehart's post-materialism, which they mentioned, and felt almost as if David Shor had gone back in time to write a book.
What strikes me in my research on the topic is the frightening possibility that, as democracies grow richer and polarize along educational lines, that partisanship could be entirely tied to values and "openness to experience," which seems(?) like a normally distributed trait. Genetic polarization seems bad!
Left parties world wide prefer more permeable borders. This allows immigrants to compete with local working class labor. Left parties worldwide also don't prioritize assimilation into a countries values as much. In America we teach kids about a multicultural society now, not a melting pot. In much of the EU there are parts of major cities that radical immigrant members of religions have made uncomfortable for those outside their religion to walk through. This affects those who are lower socio-economic classes more than those who can just drive or move somewhere else. The book Prey does a good job outlining this. I would argue the reverse, that global left parties have all left the working class behind. Globalization and open borders demand it.
I don't understand the point being made here about unionization. Fall in union density and labor power has been a pervasively global phenomenon over the last 40 years; far from weakening that argument, the facts objectively support it.
I am so tired of everyone who is somewhere the to right of moderate being called “far-right” while actual communists are only called leftists. The message I get is that the media believes that there is no such thing as merely right or right-of-center. There are the good guys to the left of center, the wishy-washy moderates, and then the far right. It undermines everything said after “far-right.”
I was reading a book from 2008 that was shockingly prescient about education polarization called "Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State." It mentions how, at the time, income polarization was mostly between the rich in states, while low-income Americans voted similarly wherever they lived. This seems consistent with Inglehart's post-materialism, which they mentioned, and felt almost as if David Shor had gone back in time to write a book.
What strikes me in my research on the topic is the frightening possibility that, as democracies grow richer and polarize along educational lines, that partisanship could be entirely tied to values and "openness to experience," which seems(?) like a normally distributed trait. Genetic polarization seems bad!
Left parties world wide prefer more permeable borders. This allows immigrants to compete with local working class labor. Left parties worldwide also don't prioritize assimilation into a countries values as much. In America we teach kids about a multicultural society now, not a melting pot. In much of the EU there are parts of major cities that radical immigrant members of religions have made uncomfortable for those outside their religion to walk through. This affects those who are lower socio-economic classes more than those who can just drive or move somewhere else. The book Prey does a good job outlining this. I would argue the reverse, that global left parties have all left the working class behind. Globalization and open borders demand it.