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In reply to the discussion: Obama finalizing plans to have your tech job replaced by foreigners [View all]Romulox
(25,960 posts)America has already decided this issue: DEMOCRATS signed NAFTA. DEMOCRATS gave "Most Favored Nation" status to China. A DEMOCRAT (Barack Obama) recently gave us "Free Trade" with Korea. I didn't see a peep here on DU.
On the other end of the spectrum, the building trades have been utterly destroyed as a vehicle for a middle class lifestyle, due to unrestricted unskilled immigration, which is ongoing. Democrats, by and large, support this.
So what makes IT jobs the line in the sand? I don't see any logical reason to believe it will be, nor any special moral argument that it should be. The Democratic Party is the party of globalization and international capital. It would seem IT workers want an exemption from all of this, but why would they expect it, given recent history? Or, more to the point, given their own silence about "free trade" up until now?