Quote (bogie160 @ Jun 11 2019 08:50pm)
I'm describing a problem, not advocating for that problem as a solution.
Are you surprised that people radicalize when they're scapegoated or ignored? In Europe, we've seen far right party support decline after their centrist opponents started adopting a stronger stance on immigration. Not radical, but taking the issue seriously and addressing their concerns. That's the correct response, not the Scaly / Clinton method of demonizing your opposition.
As I said, though, you're doing yourself a disservice when you conflate white supremacists with the alt-right. The former is a fringe movement filled with a pitiful collection of rejects pushing an aged agenda, the other is a modern movement that's filling a void in the modern political discourse.
Hmm just as info before Icemage responds:
Europe is steadily moving to the right, center parties adopting far right wing stances is just making parties in general more right wing/anti-immigration. One would say that the pendulum should swing back to the left soon enough. immigration stream is nearly gone (3% left), governments adopted stricter immigration policies and terrorism is going down. For Now, the further/populist right, was still one of the winners of the recent EU elections (the 'center' social democrats lost). You got a point in Denmark locally, where the right has lost its relevancy, but that's not seen across the EU.. We do see splintering of power and parties that need to renew themselves to stay relevant, left, center, right, globalist, non-globalists, Greens, and all the others..
If we'd still move further to the right than we're getting closer to Tankies vid, with fewer reasons to do so, keeping an anti-immigration/diversity stance as a norm. Imo we need a momentum to regain a more inclusive society, less individualistic, with citizens not only wanting to make life better for themselves, but for the entire society. Perhaps the greens can do that, or the socialists, who knows?
Time will tell.
This post was edited by Knoppie on Jun 12 2019 11:18am