How Denmark’s Social Democrats Are Succeeding With Stricter Immigration Policies
www.nytimes.com
Around the world, progressive parties have come to see tight immigration restrictions as unnecessary, even cruel. What if they’re actually the only way for progressivism to flourish?

Around the world, progressive parties have come to see tight immigration restrictions as unnecessary, even cruel. What if they’re actually the only way for progressivism to flourish?

That the era of low immigration was also the era of progressive triumph is no coincidence. […] The United States felt more like a cohesive nation to many voters, with higher levels of social trust and national pride, and politicians were able to enact higher taxes on the rich and new benefits like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

  • kossa@feddit.orgDeutsch
    3·
    10 hours ago

    Democrayies should bend to the will of the people

    Yep, if one has an understanding of democracy pre-WW II

    The new understanding the west came to agree upon also contained

    Democracies should bend to the will of the people, but there are some unnegotiable core principles, which are to be upheld, even if the will of the people dictates differently. We call them human rights

    Funnily enough those human rights basically are the extension of core Christian values, which are usually not considered progressive.

    And among them are the right to asylum and the right not to be deported somewhere, where murder and torture are to be expected.

    • Comment105@lemm.ee
      41·
      8 hours ago

      Immigration to Denmark is not a human right.

      Additionally, the vast majority of immigrants are under no specific risk of murder and torture, besides the part where the country they come from is just generally dangerous.

      • kossa@feddit.orgDeutsch
        1·
        5 hours ago

        As we do not share values, let’s disuss technicalities instead:

        • what to do with immigrants, of whom we do not know the state of origin?
        • what to do with immigrants where the state of origin does not want to take them back?

        Then everybody is like “Muh, but Dublin rules”. Yeah right, because those will work out perfectly for Europe, when all the southern states are left alone with all the immigrants.

        In consequence, every “we want immigration to go down” comes down to using brutal violence against those immigrants. And now we’re back to square one: questions about human rights ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • Comment105@lemm.ee
          1·
          3 hours ago

          Yes, it does come down to that.

          Now either accept it, or lose the voters and lose elections and fight to overthrow the “unethical” democracy that refuses to share their country sufficiently.

      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.orgOP
        2·
        8 hours ago

        besides the part where the country they come from is just generally dangerous.

        That’s exactly what asylum is about and why asylum is a human right. (That said, asylum approval in Denmark is higher than the EU average and doesn’t seem like a problem.)

        • Comment105@lemm.ee
          3·
          7 hours ago

          I’m an Atheist who is very acutely aware of where most of the danger in most of these countries comes from. It’s not left behind at the border. It’s also most of what makes conservatives in general dangerous, not just foreign conservatives.