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Just to say - turning back the clock on immigration would also require draconian tyranny. Just stopping immigration wouldn't really be turning back the clock - turning back the clock would mean kicking all the immigrants out (including the second, third generation, etc. immigrants).

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We could deport conservatives back to the Old Country...

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Much advocacy attempts to recalibrate views of the status quo from benign normalcy to draconian tyranny.

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> many explain that unlike free markets in goods, free markets in labor have “broad social effects.”

Thats their cowardly euphemism for their willfully mindless hatred of rejecting tradition for mans survival need to focus his mind..They would rather accept traditional poverty, humiliating obedience to arbitrary tradition and dispair at the lackof an alternative than accept what Rand called "the risk of knowledge." Eg, the conservative sentiment for a 1950s economy. Contra that, Jeff Bezos said, "If youre not failing, youre not trying hard enough.

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