2. All the spigots for cheap labor & goods have been on full blast with no real sign of slowing - at all.
3. We can't have a mature conversation in this country about adjusting the pace of change in society. It's basically whatever capital wants, capital gets.
4. Since productivity gains were decoupled from labor's wage increases in the late 1970's, the notion of "getting ahead" by working & providing labor is ultimately an exercise in irony.
5. Ameliorating these concerns by replacing them with race antagonism is deeply stupid.
6. Fundamentalism of all religious stripes is a conservative reaction against encroaching modernity, globalization & cosmopolitanism - which upsets local power hierarchies & is a threat to the status quo.
7. We need labor power with continued, but this time measured international engagement. Isolationism won't work and is an over-reaction.