DOG – well said.
Do we bystanders pick up the slack and legitimately try to right some wrongs? Dunno, I think that, realistically, is in the rear view mirror. Look at Trump vs the deep state. Just Trump being Trump and not the anointed new comer has thrown a big wrench in the establishments’ works and so much has ground to a halt.
I’m not sure about a master plan/conspiracy though. We have goofy, self serving politicians looking out for #1 and the rest be damned. I believe Merkel was reminiscing aabout the late 70’s – early 80’s when Germany encouraged a lot of Turks to immigrate to help with Germanys’ labor shortage. Even that backfired a bit back then. So Merkel played a similar card hoping that would give a much needed boost to her power base by tugging at some socialists heart strings. A knee jerk reaction fix with no consideration of future impacts. Typical politician and she’s got that Stasi blood. I don’t think one can be ex-stasi AND a well meaning politician. That’s unicorn territory.
Selco makes the good point, if you look at the whole thing too hard, it can tug at you emotionally and confuse the issue. We are all in the same boat. We’re at the point where we just gotta brace for impact. The EU is done, they’re going to break up sooner than later. Immigration or not. I can’t imagine it’ll be peaceful and well organized. The same is coming the the U.S. in some form or fashion. Politicians will then use the immigrant issue to their benefit however they see fit…period, and we’ll be left with the mess.
I spent a lot of time in and around .gov. I used to subscribe more to conspiracies than I do now. Now I truly think a lot of this just stems from gross ineptitude, rampant corruption, etc. from the PTB. In my opinion we’re well past the point of real reform for too many things, immigration being just one. Gotta keep our eye on the prize so to speak and see what we can do when the dust settles.
The Titanic has hit the iceberg and everyone’s just now waking up and getting a grip on the situation and what comes next. Not to make light of the human condition, just can’t be too concerned about trying to adjust the ship to a better course at the moment. It’s not gonna be around much longer as we know it.