Kromi wrote:Infected Mushroom wrote:Isn’t it left wing?
Since immigrants foreseeably change/alter the culture and traditions of the country and right-wingers are supposed to be about defending and re-asserting the existing national/cultural identity (or in some way reverting to a glorified past)?
I’d say if you have a country with an overall right wing economic and social ideology but you also support increased immigration, even if you use neoliberal justifications... it takes away from the overall right-wing composition rather than adding to it because it’s saying “I know immigration will do this to an extent but it’s okay in this case for the culture and the national identity to get shifted a bit.”
However, it’s possible that would just be one left wing position amongst countless right wing positions elsewhere.
You can be patriotic and pro-immigration at the same time, take Sweden for example.
But patriotism can’t be the divider between left and right because left-wingers will justify things with patriotism too
For example, Democrats would say they are patriots just as much as Republicans
However, Republicans are more about preserving tradition and the existing national/ cultural identity or reverting to a glorified past