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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In both Europe and Canada, the swing to the right - particularly among the young - is due primarily to unchecked immigration and high housing costs. In Canada, it's uneducated Indians, mostly from Punjab. In Europe, it's Arabs, Pakistanis, Afghans, and some from sub-Sahara Africa. None of these uneducated immigrants have any interest in assimilating. They are usually responsible for most of the crime and many don't work and just live off of benefits. And they've really increased the cost of rent in many communities. People have had enough and are voting accordingly. It has nothing to do with health care or education or trans whatever. It is 100 percent a reaction to the uneducated immigrants that have been flooding into Europe and Canada in recent years. 
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This is a huge global over generalization.   People with views like you are very damaging and dangerous. [/quote]

What’s truly dangerous is people like yourself who refuse to acknowledge that people have valid complaints about the costs of globalism and mass migration.

The refusal of mainstream politicians to adjust positions in response to this and; and instead just push policies citizens are unhappy with and try to shame and/or scare people into just accepting changes they don’t want is what has allowed people like Trump and others on the far-right  to come into power and become relevant.

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Yes, you are right that people have valid complaints about the costs of globalism and mass migration but it's not like the situation is the same in every country.

Many countries in Europe, particularly in the Mediterranean, are struggling with the flood of illegal immigrants which largely resulted from the destabilization of the Middle East (did that start with the US invasion of Iraq opposed by almost all European countries? I'm no expert).  That form of mass migration is pretty hard to control and is not some sort of policy decision. In fact, the EU is spending billions trying to keep people out.  Sure Germany chose to admit over a million Syrian refugees in a short period of time (maybe overly generous) but they would have had to go somewhere. France is dealing with the failure to integrate legal migrants from its former colonies which has built up over decades. Even the Swiss are increasingly anti-migrant with 24% of the population comprising migrants who arrived in the last 5 years to fill lower paid jobs for which there simplu aren't enough Swiss.  Canada has chosen to adopt crazily high target for legal migrants but maybe it's the huge number of temporary migrants (especially international students) who are creating much of the pressure on housing.

When it comes down to it though, many people also don't want to make tough choices and do not acknowledge change has to happen one way or the other.  They don't like change and want to keep things the way they have always been.  Small, incremental changes are probably all right though.  The problem is the world keeps spinning and big changes will come in time.  The low birthrates and shrinking work forces in many Western countries mean they have no choice but to admit migrants, and these migrants are not mirror images of themselves.  There is no queue of white, Western-educated, Christians waiting in the wings.  Inevitably, those migrants come from countries with different cultures, religions and ways of thinking.

Look at what happened in the UK.  There was a backlash to what was seen as a flood of migrants after the accession of the Eastern European countries. It was probably understandable given how quickly it happened and it led to Brexit. Now, the UK is poaching doctors and nurses across Africa and Asia to staff hospitals and is admitting huge numbers of international students to subsidise its universities as no government is prepared to increase government support or raise the tuition fees to ensure they can continue to run properly.[/quote]

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