Quote: (09-04-2015 01:39 AM)Phoenix Wrote:
Quote: (09-04-2015 12:49 AM)storm Wrote:
It seems to me. Sometimes. Like the politicians are in a cabal against the people.
That can't be right.
Could they simply be ignorant?
They're just sociopaths. Non-sociopaths can't understand how someone can hurt everyone around them without a slither of remorse, just to increase their own personal power and quality of life. But that is what it is and everyone needs to understand it. It's like being confused that a deaf person isn't following your instructions.
This. As I see it, they have a two-fold motivation:
1. More cheap labor, like what happened in the US with Mexico.
2. Political disenfranchisement of citizens.
When a unified, mostly homogeneous people vote as a block, political change can happen very quickly. Now look at the US, where groups vote almost entirely along ethnic/tribal lines. Once a country is divided into multiple competing groups, it's easier for the politicians to get away with whatever they want. Obama is above criticism, because all criticism is inherently "right-wing and racist" in today's partisan environment.
Right now Eastern Europe looks to be mostly against taking in the migrants, while the West is all-in. With the EU divided as it is, what chance do we have to stop Merkel's plan? Especially since Poland's own traitorous Donald Tusk, now EU president, wants to bring in 100,000 himself.