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Old 07-02-2024, 02:49 PM   #15123
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Originally Posted by nfotiu View Post
Are people really that worried and tangibly affected by immigration? It seems more likely that these right wing populist guys have figure out it is a winning message. Generate a bunch of fear about immigrants and get everyone to blame every problem they have on immigration.

Go through a rural part of a state like NC, VA, and WV, and you'll see all sorts of anti-immigration propaganda. There is absolutely no chance that immigrants are not going to find their towns take their jobs and rape their children, but they sure are convinced it is a big problem for them.

It's disheartening that it is a message that works so well in so many places in the world. People sure seem to have a strong belief that the fluke of where they were born entitles them and only them to be in a country.
I don't know about raping all the children, that might be a messaging thing. In reality, building of infrastructure has come to a screaching halt in comparison to population growth, and that has caused most of the friction concerning immigration. I think that the other pressing point (outside of America) is that unlike the melting pot, immigrants are dropped into a new country with very little in the way of education on the social and political norms of that country, so we are getting a lot of the problems associated with a series of isolated immigrant communities that are very insular.
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