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  • I think immigration is a distraction and a veil to protect the rich. With the wealth and infrastructure, Europe can take in millions of people. With the wealth it possesses, we can have a strong social security net, free education, and maintain our current lifestyle quite easily. We “just” have to distribute the wealth, money and power better.

    Look around, every country in Europe is struggling with maintaining its population numbers. The cost of living crisis, the lack of prospects, the bleak outlook, and centralisation of wealth is hindering people from seeing themselves with children, much less affording them. The workforce is shrinking quickly and cannot provide neither manpower nor the money to pay for the pensions of the evergrowing group of retirees - that is mostly because the money is either flowing outside of the countries or into the pockets of the rich and wealthy.

    The problem isn’t “the muzzies” nor “brown people are destroying our culture”. It’s that people who come to Europe are being treated like they don’t belong. Governments aren’t doubling down on integration but are instead ostracising them despite requiring them. It’s a formula that will bear its nasty fruit. You can fly in thousands of Indian nurses, treat them like shit, and expect them to be happy. Invest in their future, invest in them, and the neighborhoods they are in.

    Happy, successful citizens do their best to see their country thrive. Poor, sidelined, citizens forced to survive might be easy to control and pit against each other, but they do not make for a stable society.

    Pointing fingers at groups within the 99% doesn’t do anything but help the percenters or dot-percenters.










  • Because many centrist parties in Europe are actually more centre right and neo-liberal and actively hold back progress. They invest little to nothing in public infrastructure, privatise public services, lower taxes on the rich, and weaken worker’s rights. They do it more slowly than right-wing parties and extreme right wing parties, but they do it nonetheless. Once in a while they decide to try and balance the scales but not enough.

    This has lead to deteriorating public infrastructure, rising cost of living, dependence on private companies (especially foreign ones), more corruption, a frequent attack of workers and green parties, more brash public discourse, and loss of trust with major disdain of politics. Their approach to resolve it has been to adopt right-wing discourse to try and win back their voters who have drifted off to the right due to populism.

    As I said, left wing, progressive, and green parties have responded very meekly towards other parties, but respond harshly to parties that share similar ideologies, which leave the right wing field wide open. It is a wide failing of all parties left of right, more progressive than conservative, and non-populist ones.