There is a phenomenon in the US (currently California) and in the UK
metropolitan cities like London, the phenomenon is termed 'white flight'.
Crudely put, the indigenous white population are heading for the hills. If one accepts this is occurring why is it occurring? Equally there is a phenomenon happening with voters across continents; Brexit, Trump, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia now Italy and Merkel limping along wounded by her German guilt. Could the answer to these cultural tsunamis be Immigration? One trembles to say such a thing such might be the cacophony of ad hominen name calling and character assassination that may ensue. What I find really alarming about the NYT comments is the universality of the voice of the anti-Trump herd, no one appears to veer off from this comments stampede for a little reflective grazing. But Hello Liberals the 'deplorables' (moi) are
aspirationals too. My advice to Liberals is that it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things which is the same for all: meritocratic diversity globalists just might have seen their time come and go, for they too are a phenomenon and as to those indignant to an opposing view I close with a quote from Erich Fromm,'There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.' Now will this pass the censor I wonder?
metropolitan cities like London, the phenomenon is termed 'white flight'.
Crudely put, the indigenous white population are heading for the hills. If one accepts this is occurring why is it occurring? Equally there is a phenomenon happening with voters across continents; Brexit, Trump, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia now Italy and Merkel limping along wounded by her German guilt. Could the answer to these cultural tsunamis be Immigration? One trembles to say such a thing such might be the cacophony of ad hominen name calling and character assassination that may ensue. What I find really alarming about the NYT comments is the universality of the voice of the anti-Trump herd, no one appears to veer off from this comments stampede for a little reflective grazing. But Hello Liberals the 'deplorables' (moi) are
aspirationals too. My advice to Liberals is that it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things which is the same for all: meritocratic diversity globalists just might have seen their time come and go, for they too are a phenomenon and as to those indignant to an opposing view I close with a quote from Erich Fromm,'There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.' Now will this pass the censor I wonder?
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