In the past two years, populist governments have been elected (or populist parties have been given bigger roles in coalition governments) in Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Poland, Hungary and elsewhere. This has been because, unlike mainline parties, the populists have been willing to admit immigration is an issue.
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[M]ost mainline conservatives won’t take up immigration for fear of being branded racists by mainline liberals and the “progressive” media, and for fear of missing out on the votes of enlarging ethnic communities.
That means voters who are worried about losing their jobs or having their cultures submerged by immigration have no traditional political outlet for their concerns. Disgruntled voters, then, fill the resulting leadership vacuum with anti-immigrant populists who overestimate the dangers in much the same way the mainliners underestimate them.
When the voters don’t like your policies, get new voters.
“Disgruntled voters, then, fill the resulting leadership vacuum with anti-immigrant populists who overestimate the dangers in much the same way the mainliners underestimate them.”
Heh, one of those so called dangers is irreversible, the other not so much.
Here are some thoughts.
When I got here, had to wait 5 years for citizenship. Should have stayed that way. No reason to change.
Guess who are the new citizens going to vote for. You got one guess.
The new citizens are going to vote, guaranteed.
You get more new citizens from the refugee crowd, you can kiss good bye the Canadian culture. The airhead will be in charge until the refugee citizens takeover.
Too bad for the future of the young generation of today. They are not worried now, can’t blame them, they are ignorant since school tells them this is good.
Can’t blame the media in this case, the generation likely does not know what the meaning of “newspaper” is.
“You get more new citizens from the refugee crowd, you can kiss good bye the Canadian culture.”
Good riddance. “Canadian culture” (whatever that is, exactly) brought us universal healthcare and gun control. Kill it. Kill it with fire-and mass immigration!
Funny how western culture sucks and yet every turd worlder wants to come here. Why can’t those glorious turd worlders build prosperity at home? Why are they all running from shitholes? And the more of them come the more of a shithole Canada becomes.
Using logic with Unmeat may give IT a headache.
Phucking Recaptcha – I had to click on a phucking Winnebago to “verify” a phucking Bus scene. Jesus Murphy.
“Why can’t those glorious turd worlders build prosperity at home?”
Bad institutions. They got they can come here to build prosperity here.
Oh and why is that they cannot develop good institutions? Do you think the western world is magically endowed with good institutions?
Prosperity? Does welfare pay that well?
It is all relative B, they get indoor plumbing for example.
“Oh and why is that they cannot develop good institutions? ”
Because the existing ones kill people when then try to make new ones. Institutions are powerful. That’s why countries colonized by Spain tend to suck while those colonized by Britain tend to be pretty good. Common Law = win
Of course, they just somehow cannot reform. How many more decades will it take? Successful former colonies? Like Uganda? Nigeria? Kenya? Jamaica?
Rhodesia did not have functioning institutions?
How about pre-Mandela South Africa? What happened to those?
Institutions do not exist in vacuum, they are a product of culture you demagogue imbecile.
“It is all relative B, they get indoor plumbing for example.”
Some even learn how to use it. Although, judging from the state the Syrian enrichers leave the hotels they were put in by PM Pussy Hat, others may require training.
Obviously it’s nothing to you. You have your rights.
Many other stupid people have rights. There is not and should not be law against stupidity.
Through exchange of ideas stupidity will dissipate.
If a person does not know what culture is, it could be that they lost the meaning of life.
Don’t be disenchanted though it is more common than it used to be.
It also can be said that without discussion it will disappear until there are people that find culture useful.
One question was puzzling me.
Are you OK?
It would seem that you are basically bored to death and the comments you come up with give you something akin to orgasm.
Try getting a girlfriend, orgasm with her would be something supreme that you can’t even imagine.
You even may get happy.
Who knows, you may even find a brand new way to look at life.
UnMe
Obviously it’s nothing to you. You have your rights.
Many other stupid people have rights. There is not and should not be law against stupidity.
Through exchange of ideas stupidity will dissipate.
If a person does not know what culture is, it could be that they lost the meaning of life.
Don’t be crestfallen though it is more common than it used to be.
It also can be said that without discussion it will disappear until there are people that find culture useful.
One question was puzzling me.
Are you OK?
It would seem that you are basically bored to death and the comments you come up with give you something akin to orgasm.
Try getting a girlfriend, orgasm with her would be something supreme that you can’t even imagine.
You even may get happy.
Who knows, you may even find a brand new way to look at life.
unDork, crossing the border is a 2 way street, use it soon please, as a$$holes like you are as much of a problem as any illegal. Fact you are probably more of a problem.
“Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, speaking in Morocco on Monday, explained it was necessary to stop criticism of migrants because that dehumanizes them, and dehumanization is an early step towards fascism.
“Sorry, but isn’t suppression of free speech also an early step towards fascism?”
Yes.
And honestly? I would be much less concerned if we were only dealing with an influx of wild or feral animals, not humans.
For the most part wild animals are afraid of humans (when they haven’t been trained by cat ladies to see us as a source of food, anyway), and could be trusted to leave us in peace. It’s the local wildlife who would need to worry about the extra competition for forage in the Canadian winter.
To compare the invaders Justin Trudeau is inviting into Canada to animals in need of culling is an insult to animals.
I noticed those comments; they say it all about progressivism; pure emotion without “reason,” with outgroups on the hopper.
If you don’t see it their way, you are fearful, therefore hateful, therefore a fascist; and nobody listens to white supremacists.
Except for Democrats.
Is criticizing and actually dehumanizing Donald Trump and early step towards fascism UN kleptocrats? Actually right on time.
Consider the US anti-fascists. We must hunt down MAGA hat wearers, shut down free speech, use the law enforcement and security apparatus of the nation to target, investigate and frame political opponents with criminal intent, and finally overturn elections where the people made the “incorrect” choice. It’s so much easier in the one party state.
If we don’t adhere to the political class project the nation will be given over to Nazis, according to the reactionaries and the UN.
Coming soon to a country near you name Canada I fear. Reactionism and projection are all they have in 2019.
If someone tries to sneak into Canada they are illegals. If they claim refugee status without cause, they are migrants.
As UN fingers wag, Canada and US are the only countries to provide national sanctuary to migrants, illegal or otherwise.
Immigration is only one issue driving this. It’s dissatisfaction from across the political spectrum with the ruling elite and the administrative state they have created not listening to them.
And politicians of all stripes would be wise to shape their rhetoric and policies to change that – not just hit the one note os immigration.
Years ago I worked with a Sri Lankan immigrant. He told me he was advised that the Canadian flag is the Liberal flag as we see on their candidates signs and literature and to vote Liberal so he and his other compatriots did.
the Canadian flag is the Liberal flag
Yup. It was the Liberals who inflicted it upon us–one of the legacies of Mr. Pearson.
Some would say the globalists are deliberately facilitating acts of terrorism in western countries by turning a blind eye to the realities. I just wonder if it is a blind eye. Perhaps there is more of a cunning strategy to create a social environment in which people are forced to choose between mindless acceptance or being branded a fascist. Many will choose mindless acceptance since being branded a fascist is a social death in some circles.
It is the emperor’s new coat but almost everyone is wearing it.
Three cheers for Australia. They have a tough immigration policy. Canada could do well to emulate it.
Australia’s hardline immigration policy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUdcPGdlcgI
Australia is nothing but poorer for keeping immigrants out. Australia kind of sucks in a lot of ways. They have a lot of Britain’s authoritarianism.
Yeah and they have summer in the winter! WTF?!
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france supplies the gasoline AND the match…
“Paris public prosecutor Remy Heitz said on
Wednesday two people had been killed in
the attack and one was left brain-dead.
Twelve were wounded, six seriously.”
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“That means voters who are worried about losing their jobs or having their cultures submerged by immigration have no traditional political outlet for their concerns.”
As they should be: anyone who loses their job because an immigrant can do it better is by definition a loser.
These populists aren’t going very far in most places. It’s usually just old people being cranky old people, or backwater nations like Hungary being backwater nations. Poland’s ruling idiots are losing popularity. I think Italy’s are too-the Five Star clowns couldn’t run a lemonade stand.
We need new voters. The ones we have suck. Mix it up.
“As they should be: anyone who loses their job because an immigrant can do it better is by definition a loser.” – the in-your-face-libertarian raking in the converts!
That would be a loser who pays taxes to a government that subsidizes non rule-of-law immigration of individuals circumventing the (border) law and living off the loser taxpayer until qualified for work to potentially take his job. That’s your apparent definition of “open borders”. I would call that illegal socialized human importation, not immigration. It’s a guarantee of rising populism.
Immigrants are not major consumers of welfare. That’s entirely a red herring; the ‘job taking’-ness of the immigrant is not impacted by government freebies. Indeed it is a nice illustration of the conservaderp nativist two-step: if they’re employed, they dun terk yer jerb, if they’re not, they dun terk yer welfare.
It’s even more stupid given that unauthorized US immigrants are essentially bailing out SS.
“Immigrants are not major consumers of welfare. ”
Yes of course they are. For example 80% of Somalis in Sweden are on welfare. For another example three quarters of Latin American families in US have at least one member on welfare. And the list goes on ad nauseum ad infinitum. If a country dares o release these statistics the only immigrants that have welfare dependence rates below that of white majority are yellow Asians. Of course those rates are also correlated with average IQs.
72 % of all illegals and other “undocumented” immigrants get welfare of some sort in California.
“The per capita cost of providing welfare to immigrants is substantially less than the per capita cost of providing welfare to native-born Americans.”
https://www.cato.org/publications/immigration-research-policy-brief/immigration-welfare-state-immigrant-native-use-rates
Typical contrarian CATO bull$hit contradicted by decades of research
https://www.nap.edu/read/9719/chapter/8
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-97.html
Note: all links come from generally pro-immigrant sources.
https://cis.org/Report/Welfare-Use-Immigrant-and-Native-Households
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/01/immigrant-welfare-use-report/71517072/
I have tons more but you’re not worth it. FOAD.
Or maybe they do it cheaper UnBrain.
Cheaper ie they win, you suck. It’s called ‘free markets’. GG
Not if one side plays legally by the rules and the other cheats by working for cash, not paying taxes all while collecting welfare payments.
That’s not ‘cheating’. That’s called ‘being awesome’. GG
Yes working for cash while collecting welfare payments must seem awesome to a turd worlder parasite.
No. We need the bastards who are letting these “new voters” in to stand aside in favour of someone with the courage to throw the savages out and keep them out.
Not enough to eat back in the old country? Bring smallpox out of retirement and send the savages home with a dose of the strongest strain still available. Let smallpox do the job of keeping savage populations to manageable sizes it performed quite well for centuries.
^Loser^
“If the political culture forbids respectable politicians from raising certain topics, then the electorate will turn to unrespectable ones.” ––Mark Steyn
In related news: “Far-Right [of course] Vox Party Erodes Socialists’ Control in Spain’s Largest Region” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/world/europe/spain-andalusia-election.html