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No matter which side it is, it always makes me sad when one party demonized anything good that comes from the other party. America was never founded on this predication and anyone who celebrates it is just hurting everyone.

But my serious issue I have is with liberals and wanting to cheap prices in trade for worker oppression. This is exactly what liberals are mad with the China situation. Liberals are crying that prices are going to go up, which is true. But, the reason for it is solely because to produce things ourselves, it costs more. And it costs more due to labor. Labor isn't the only reason but it is such a significant portion of ANY costs of production that it will always be a factor. So, liberals are turning a blind eye to worker oppression in the name of cheap products. They don't seem to care about the lack of child labor laws, fair pay, worker conditions, etc. as long as it isn't happening in America. And that's just sad.

What makes it even harder to understand is that liberals have been on the "America is a rich nation" for quite a while now. Liberals say there is no reason we can't provide a living wage. There is no reason we can't provide a basic income. There is no reason we can't take care of illegals. Etc. Etc. So, if America is so rich that we can do all of this, why can't we absorb higher prices in the name of workers' rights? I don't like that costs have to go up but I'm willing to trade it to ensure the people making the products are treated humanely. And, while the situation may not be as exaggerated as some outlets make it out to be, China DOES oppress a very large portion of their manufacturing jobs. They work in conditions and for wages in which liberal heads would explode if America were doing it.

This is my only gripe with the tariff opposition that liberals have. You can make up all the excuses you want but, in the end, supporting China and the trade relations we have with them today means you are supporting kids working 12 hours a day, people sleeping in bunk-bed cots in tiny rooms between shifts, etc. This isn't made up. This is all real. Continue to ignore it all you want but if you feel we are rich enough to give everyone money for nothing, then you inherently agree that we are rich enough to spend a few more dollars on products (unless you actually realize that Biden already increased inflation so much that our rich wiggle room has run out).

"Immigrants have a higher rate of violent criminal activity than Citizens is an ideological purity test for Republicans."

Unfortunately, it's your own myopic, incorrect logic that is making that point. For Republicans, the idea is that if those illegals (remember, Reps are against illegals, not immigrants like you keep trying to incorrectly elude to) weren't here in the first place, the violent crimes wouldn't be committed. So, let's say Americans commit a random number of violent crime, like 10%. Then, you add in just 1% from illegals, that makes it 11%.

So, in a Rep's mind, whether you agree or not, the thinking is that the 1% wouldn't even exist if the illegals weren't here. There is no purity test or random, made-up litmus you try to put into the conversation just because of partisan hate and no real logic or anything. It's the simple fact that if illegal A, who committed rape and then killed a girl, weren't here...that crime never would have happened.

In essence, all liberals are doing is trivializing these violent crimes done by illegals. In fact, liberals fight waaaaaaaay more for the innocent person who may be arrested incorrectly than they do for getting rid of the illegal who committed rape, murder, etc. And this isn't even debatable, it's ALL OVER the media in every outlet, not just partisan outlets.

So, as usual with people who are blinded by partisan hate that they can't understand bad logic, you are making up an argument and then debating it yourself instead of actually listening to the other side, understanding where they are coming from, and then forming logical conclusions. In the 1990s, this was a huge problem with Reps. The pendulum has shifted very far to the left now.

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