2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: When will the Democratic Party ask itself why it is losing so many members? [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)Another point is that they think (and so far are corrrect) they can replace disaffected leftists by supporting open borders on the south, and doing an end-run around immigration quotas by granting immigrants a path to citizenship once they are in the country.
These newly arrived people have no history with the triangulation of the corporate wing of the party, see the xenophobic Republicans as the only alternative, and mostly support Democrats.
Our party's corporate donors also like the open borders approach, no need to represent domestic labor interests, instead they can in-source using immigrants.
So long as the left and domestic workers have nowhere else to go, this is sadly a winning strategy for the multinational corporate wing of the Democratic Party, and also enables the party to get away with supporting policies like the TPP.