"cheap-labor conservatives"

[kpete]

Defeat the Right in Three Minutes

When you cut right through it, right-wing ideology is just "dime-store economics" – intended to dress their ideology up and make it look respectable. You don't really need to know much about economics to understand it. They certainly don't. It all gets down to two simple words.

"Cheap labor". That's their whole philosophy in a nutshell – which gives you a short and pithy "catch phrase" that describes them perfectly. You've heard of "big-government liberals". Well they're "cheap-labor conservatives".

"Cheap-labor conservative" is a moniker they will never shake, and never live down. Because it's exactly what they are. You see, cheap-labor conservatives are defenders of corporate America – whose fortunes depend on labor. The larger the labor supply, the cheaper it is. The more desperately you need a job, the cheaper you'll work, and the more power those "corporate lords" have over you. If you are a wealthy elite – or a "wannabe" like most dittoheads – your wealth, power and privilege is enhanced by a labor pool, forced to work cheap.


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[Brickbat]

1. Yup; that sums it up quite nicely.

And "right to work" = "right to starve" or "right to scab" or "right to work for less."

[Edweird]

2. What worries me more are the cheap labor proponents on the left

that try to frame it as 'social justice'.

[ThomCat]

6. There is no social justice in being an easily replacable serf.

People who claim to be lefties, but insist on arguing for the benefits of all of us being cheap labor are easy to unmask.

[Hello_Kitty]

7. Thank you.

It's true that some of the people who oppose mass immigration and "free trade" do so because they are bigots. But that's no reason for the left to embrace those things uncritically.

[TransitJohn]

3. +1, good framing n/t

:kick:

[The Magistrate]

4. An Excellent Summary, Ma'am

It is the essence of the thing: makes sure what someone works for someone else enjoys the good of....

[Orsino]

5. Feudalists. n/t

[OnionPatch]

8. In their greed, they're killing the goose that laid the golden egg.

(A middle class with purchasing power.) We're experiencing that now. We don't have the means to buy their goods and services anymore because of their short-sightedness in driving down labor.