Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Sweden’s Crime Crisis Worsens: Will Denmark Shut the Border?" video.
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Immigration and migrants is always used as a scapegoat by the right or far right, the truth is, the issue is a lot more complicated than that and is likely more to do with cost of living issues and how so many people feel they are being left behind even thought the GDP numbers say things are doing great, the people don't feel it, and this is becoming an issue in a lot of western countries where economic growth isn't measuring up with quality of life improvements, especially for the lower and middle classes.
The ones that benefit from this is the far right as they benefit on division, chaos and infighting among the population, in other words, western leaders in Europe and North America better wake up and start listening to concerns of the people, which immigration and migration isn't the real issue, cost of living, feeling left behind is the issue, and unless the mainstream political parties do major changes to improve that, they are going to continue to feed the radicals on the far right until it gets to a point where it could become dangerous for us all, the pattern isn't that different throughout other European countries and isn't that different in the US, a lot of people, especially the lower and middle classes feel left behind and disenfranchised in society, that's feeding the far right and it's only going to get worse unless real change happens, and time is running out with some of the radicals we are seeing in Europe and North America already, how much worse does it need to get because the political mainstream wake up and do real change?
In any case, immigration and migration isn't the root to the problem, it's the scapegoat being used by the right to push their own agenda, the actual problem is much deeper in society of capitalism and how so many people feel that it's not delivering anymore for so many people, that's creating more desperation, crime and many other issues, which it's easy for the far right to blame immigration and migration, but if I were to put money on it, I bet these people are treated worse in society then the natives in almost all modern countries that likely contributes to the crime rate rise and other issues that seem relation to migrants.
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