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by smsm42 3672 days ago
On immigration, it kind of depends on how far you take it. Banning all immigration would definitely create a lot of issues for US economy that can be considered bothering people affected.

> Leftism currently is driving the hardest for authoritarianism

True for now, but one must not confuse difference in degree with difference in kind. It is true that implementing the left agenda probably requires more "bothering", at least taking current status of affairs as a starting point, than the right's agenda. But it's a difference in degree, not in kind, and also a function of the current status, not the principal differences. The right has no problem with authority bothering people when it fits its agenda the same way as the left.

That's actually what I see as one of the major deficiencies of the current US political system. Both the left and the right try to use the state to advance their agenda, but the result is mostly the state is getting bigger and bigger, and still nobody's happy.