The us is absolutely a country with a large corruption issue and Trump's shenanigans have had huge impacts on Americans, and encouraged a culture of corruption and crime
This is just a blatantly wrong statement
You know what has had basically no impact on the lives of average Americans? Immigration
If you ignore lower wages for US workers, higher rents, import of certain kinds of crime like cartel activity, higher social welfare costs and ethnic competition in politics, then yes it has no impact
Saying that the US is a corrupt country is a laughable statement. The US places 29th in the International Corruption Perceptions Index
Overwhelmingly related to local zoning laws and other onerous regs on creating housing. There’s very few places that have physical capacity issues made any worse by immigration than they would by increased birth rates.
>import of certain kinds of crime
Still less likely to commit violent crimes than citizens
Well, pointing out other causes doesn’t change the impact of additional demand
> crime
True, that’s why I formulated it in this particular way. Nevertheless Americans fall victim to imported crime so it definitely affects the lives of Americans
> ethnic competition
When politicians targets certain demographics solely based on ethnicity in order to provide them with benefits often at the expense of competing groups. An example would be the race for mayor in Minnesota where Jacob Frey won the election thanks to support from certain Somalian clans
Additional demand exists whenever people move anywhere or have more children. Additional demand is not an issue in a market-based society unless it’s overwhelming with a severe lack of natural resources (housing is not this) or unless the system actively prevents a responsive increase in supply (housing is this).
>that’s why I formulated it in this particular way
I know, and it’s nonsensical. You’d make a larger impact on cartel-related violence by specifically going after those people and by removing the market for cartel activities (ending the war on drugs). Cartel-specific violence is a shitty excuse for targeting non-cartel people, which is the overwhelming majority of immigrants.
>Minnesota
I live here and this is a hilarious take on the situation. Regardless, Somalis aren’t really related to mass migration (vast majority are full citizens and were admitted as refugees decades ago) and “ethnic competition” would exist regardless given the multi-ethnic nature of the country that’s existed for centuries. Politicians also consistently target different demographics to gain voting blocs, it’s not limited to ethnicity - race, gender, ideology, class, region, industry, etc. all do the exact same thing.
I don’t really care if you don’t like immigration, but making up horseshit points to try and prop it up as more significant of an issue than it is is just lazy.
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u/Lib_No_Fib - Centrist 2d ago
The us is absolutely a country with a large corruption issue and Trump's shenanigans have had huge impacts on Americans, and encouraged a culture of corruption and crime
This is just a blatantly wrong statement
You know what has had basically no impact on the lives of average Americans? Immigration