109. The immigration lie
One
of the defining drivers of nationalistic populist movements coming to the fore
in the last few years, not for the first time as history teaches us, is the belief
by the working class that immigrants will take their livelihood, lower wages,
increase insecurity and crime rates. America First, Brexit, the rise of Vox in
Spain or La Lega in Italy all owe their popularity to this idea. This is an
amazingly executed subterfuge by an elite that takes more and more of the pie
whilst convincing those left with less that they need to fight each other. The tactic
is not new. Julius Caesar famously postulated it as a strategy with ‘Divide et
Impera’ and Sun Tzu even before him, in ‘The Art of War’. Well, I have news for
you. There is absolutely no evidence, whatsoever, that immigrants will do any
of this. There is, in fact, some evidence that they will do the opposite, they
work harder and engage in crime less than natives and, often, raise wages for
locals, who become their supervisors
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