So....is Biden the "grey champion"

[David Horn]

(06-06-2020, 09:26 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(04-30-2020, 12:51 PM)David Horn Wrote: And let's admit it: H-1B visas are legalized pseudo-slavery.  The visas are owned by the companies doing the hiring.  If the person benefitting from a visa complains too much, he or she is merely replaced by a more compliant alternative.  If we really need all these educated folks that badly, hand out Green Cards and keep the playing field even for all -- migrant and native.

I agree completely and have argued so for years.  And the same thing applies to illegal immigrant agricultural workers.

This benefits the owners of large tech businesses and some not so large - but still not small - agricultural businesses.  However, the power in the Republican party shifted starting in 2010 to workers, starting with the affluent workers and now shifting to the working class, too.  These are the people who lose the most to immigration.

The owners who benefit are increasingly shifting their allegiance to the Democrats.  Google and Twitter are ultraleft, Facebook and Apple are way left of center.  The Republican party doesn't own the big businesses any more, so they don't need to be loyal to them.

I see no evidence that either party cares all that much about workers.  The GOP has always been the bastion of the business class, and the neoliberals in the Democratic Party merely joined the team.  But claiming that Trump and others of his ilk have done anything to help those working for a living is a joke.  Even his pseudo-populist actions, like opening National Monuments to exploitation, has been focused on the business interests doing the exploiting, not the people working for them.  On the other hand, he's tried to kill universal healthcare (it's bad, but it's better than nothing at all) and decrease spending on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, while piling on the gravy for businesses of all types.  He's a plutocrat.  Eventually, Trumpists will have to see that too.