• MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Anti immigration is not a new postion for Western news media at all. Trump and many others got elected on these platforms.

    The issue is that the baby boomers. A large generation born after WW2, when Europe as a whole still had higher birth rates, is retiring right about now. So there is a massive decline in the size of the workforce. So we already see unemployment falling in many regions and regions with high rate of employment are starting to have issues finding qualified personal. The right is anti immigration and lacks a proper answer for that and they need one to get donors. So that is the “solution”. It is also hardly new to Europe at least.

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      1 year ago

      I disagree. Although right wings have been anti-immigration for long, centrists like FP did not spew the illusion that the birth rate can be improved without immigration.