This lefty author has a different idea for their “sane world”:
“In a sane and decent world, we would open our borders as wide as humanly possible. Because letting other people immigrate to America makes their lives better; much better in many cases. And we would rely on all those other policy levers to keep the wages and jobs of immigrant and native-born Americans alike healthy and robust.” [all those socialist ideas he describes in his piece]
Wow!
When lefties say things like that to me, I ask them why they don’t open the doors of their homes to anyone who wants to come in (and mooch, murder, rape, steal, destroy, ...). Few get it. Or they get it but pretend not to.
Also, in a sane and decent world where we value “diversity” and other cultures, why don’t we encourage that diversity and culture where it is? Again with the home analogy: If you really care about helping your neighbor, isn’t it better to help your neighbor fix his house than to have him move into yours?