I've been reading a number of articles lately about the growth of anti-immigrant sentiment …not just in the USA, but around the world. From Switzerland to Japan, there are calls for "them" to be sent back where they came from. All too often there's a touch of racism (or a truckload of it) in the appeals.
Note, this is all happening when the economy is down. And here's the dirty secret of human nature: Times are good, we are open and accepting. Times are bad: the recruiting office of the Waffen-SS is around the corner.
So, note to Liberals and Others who'd like to make the world a better place. Want people to be less bigoted? Enrich them.
The task of the Left, everywhere, and, indeed of everyone of good will, is to create jobs, reduce prices, and give people a sense of purpose, dignity, and wellbeing.
From that, all else will follow.
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Lean Back
4 years ago
Hear, hear! It's so easy, so elegant, yet no one gets it.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, the deck is stacked. The dirty secret the classical Liberals hide from the rest of us is that the capitalist system they support has no level playing field. So those of us not at the top (which is most of us) get to fight for the scraps.
ReplyDelete-Grosny