liberals are not leftists, however there are a lot of people who believe they are both. the real dividing line between right and left is entirely economic and material. liberals and conservatives agree almost completely on the economic side, capitalism with band-aids or unvarnished deregulated capitalism. real leftism should be universalist because everyone can labor. but that doesn't mean your leftist country has to take care of the whole world. it's not a charity program, it's a collaborative effort. if the government really spent on its own people, it would have every right to deny immigrants. but as it is, our government would rather let international corporations take care of our needs and they need to make a profit, so they need cheap labor.
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