I agree with you Europe does have more of a recent history dealing with terrorism, like the IRA in the UK, while the US had a large “gap” in Muslim terrorism after 9/11. The economic damage by the IRA is also an example of why utilitarians are wrong to dismiss terror attacks.
My exhortations about updating are addressed not to the average Mail reader, who has already updated and voted for Brexit. Instead I am addressing policymakers and intellectuals. It is they who are still living in a fantasy world.
Basically, at any time, any of these Muslim terrorist attacks could have become a reason to change policy. Politicians could have switched a more restrictionist policy towards countries with high rates of terrorism or crime. Economists could have jumped in and explained how migrant crime, welfare use, and loss of social trust was damaging the economy. Progressives could have argued that continued mass immigration would cause a humanitarian crisis. Feminists could have argued that bringing in large amounts low-skill male immigrants from countries with very different attitudes towards women would result in elevated sexual violence.
But instead, this is not what happens. Instead, the politicians continue with open borders. Women are told to keep migrants at arm’s length. Feminists in the press are worried about mass sexual violence causing an excuse for Islamophobia, rather than actually worrying about rape.
For a further example, the Berlin truck attacker already had a criminal history and was on a watch list due to participation in another terror plot. And yet, Germany “couldn’t” deport him because he didn’t have papers and Tunisia wouldn’t accept him. Let’s get this straight: migrant criminals can enter Europe, destroy their own papers, and then they “can’t” be deported under current policies. These are some perverse incentives.
This whole situation is simply insane, and the attempts by politicians and the media to rationalize it are ringing increasingly hollow. Our intellectuals don’t fully realize how insane it is because the media and politicians keep saying that mass immigration and multiculturalism are still good, and all we need is a few minor policy bandaids, and for the “xenophobes” and “Islamophobes” to shut up. This is why they are prevented from updating.
So why is something so insane going on? Why is the government and media not changing course? Obviously, they don’t want to change course. Either they like the course we are currently on, or they are stuck with it because they are already committed.
This is where we need to start asking who benefits from these policies, rather than listening to the absurd humanitarian and economic logic that tries to justify them. These immigrants and their children will be voting for the political parties and establishment that bring them in, and their social dysfunction and welfare use will expand big government bureaucracy. Corporations enjoy cheap labor, but the economic benefits never trickle down to middle-class natives, who have declining fertility and live with their parents.
I suspect the elite politicians knew quite well that bringing in large numbers of low-skill Muslim males would cause an epidemic of sexual violence and crime, it’s just that the politicians don’t care because this is their voting base. Meanwhile, progressive intellectuals are completely duped by the humanitarian and economic rationalizations that the politicians have created, which is why it’s important to confront them with the actual catastrophes that result from these policies, during the week or two afterwards before the media lulls them back into complacency.
I agree with you Europe does have more of a recent history dealing with terrorism, like the IRA in the UK, while the US had a large “gap” in Muslim terrorism after 9/11. The economic damage by the IRA is also an example of why utilitarians are wrong to dismiss terror attacks.
My exhortations about updating are addressed not to the average Mail reader, who has already updated and voted for Brexit. Instead I am addressing policymakers and intellectuals. It is they who are still living in a fantasy world.
Basically, at any time, any of these Muslim terrorist attacks could have become a reason to change policy. Politicians could have switched a more restrictionist policy towards countries with high rates of terrorism or crime. Economists could have jumped in and explained how migrant crime, welfare use, and loss of social trust was damaging the economy. Progressives could have argued that continued mass immigration would cause a humanitarian crisis. Feminists could have argued that bringing in large amounts low-skill male immigrants from countries with very different attitudes towards women would result in elevated sexual violence.
But instead, this is not what happens. Instead, the politicians continue with open borders. Women are told to keep migrants at arm’s length. Feminists in the press are worried about mass sexual violence causing an excuse for Islamophobia, rather than actually worrying about rape.
For a further example, the Berlin truck attacker already had a criminal history and was on a watch list due to participation in another terror plot. And yet, Germany “couldn’t” deport him because he didn’t have papers and Tunisia wouldn’t accept him. Let’s get this straight: migrant criminals can enter Europe, destroy their own papers, and then they “can’t” be deported under current policies. These are some perverse incentives.
This whole situation is simply insane, and the attempts by politicians and the media to rationalize it are ringing increasingly hollow. Our intellectuals don’t fully realize how insane it is because the media and politicians keep saying that mass immigration and multiculturalism are still good, and all we need is a few minor policy bandaids, and for the “xenophobes” and “Islamophobes” to shut up. This is why they are prevented from updating.
So why is something so insane going on? Why is the government and media not changing course? Obviously, they don’t want to change course. Either they like the course we are currently on, or they are stuck with it because they are already committed.
This is where we need to start asking who benefits from these policies, rather than listening to the absurd humanitarian and economic logic that tries to justify them. These immigrants and their children will be voting for the political parties and establishment that bring them in, and their social dysfunction and welfare use will expand big government bureaucracy. Corporations enjoy cheap labor, but the economic benefits never trickle down to middle-class natives, who have declining fertility and live with their parents.
I suspect the elite politicians knew quite well that bringing in large numbers of low-skill Muslim males would cause an epidemic of sexual violence and crime, it’s just that the politicians don’t care because this is their voting base. Meanwhile, progressive intellectuals are completely duped by the humanitarian and economic rationalizations that the politicians have created, which is why it’s important to confront them with the actual catastrophes that result from these policies, during the week or two afterwards before the media lulls them back into complacency.