| Common, but not as common anymore since it doesn't make as much sense. > Treating local businesses preferentially does not mean abolishing international trade. Just look at China, or US agricultural subsidies, or tariffs, or countless other examples. Yes, this is true, they can both exist together. > Don't they compete for the same jobs, driving down wages? Vote and take advantage of common resources (drinking water, arable land, existing infrastructure, etc.), reducing the political and economic capital of the locals? Encourage policies for more immigration, instead of policies that would encourage parenthood? Won't immigrants look out for their own interests more than for those of the local population? Why are you making this about us vs them? What is your purpose? Once they immigrate, they are the local population. Everyone takes advantage of those resources, tough. Parenthood doesn't need to be encouraged through policies. > is racism real? Yes, it's absolutely insane to me that you are even asking that. You must have lived a sheltered life to think it doesn't exist. > And instead of improving itself, it makes up the shortfall with immigration It won't sustain it's own population, this is on us, as a society, and due to changes in the job and technology markets, populations are shrinking dramatically. We aren't and can't force people to have 10 children anymore, that just won't happen. Other countries don't manage without, what are you saying? They allow immigration, and the population is still shrinking. What do you have against immigrants, against immigration? |