OK, I've had very few posts here on this forum, but been lurking here and this thread for many years now.
DLPB, you're not alone. I remember how ever since I settled back in Western Europe (about 10 years ago) I was taught all of this about "human rights", "multiculturalism is nothing new", "tolerance" and similar claptrap, but off course that narrative's been around for longer. The problem is that we're taught about freedom of press, but there's virtually none:
nearly the entirety of our press is controlled by a few corporations with very similar views that continue to affirm the very policies that are bringing ruin to the world. The link is about the United States, but USA's been controlling Europe since 1945 and (I'm firmly convinced) is behind the creation of EEC (later EU). No offense to Americans, this is just about the American government and other institutions on its soil that steer the policy of the continent.
Non-conformist voices are largely drowned in this sea of disinformation that preaches things that don't correspond to reality: "multiculturalism is nothing new", first of all,
state-sponsored mass immigration IS new, most of Western and Northern Europe began it in 1960s and 1970s without any referendum or popular vote (in Britain it began as early as 1948). At most the parliaments approved it (like Sweden in 1975), but again, almost all politicians represent the upper class of society and break promises so regularly after getting elected, no one can honestly say they voice the opinion of the larger population. What was the next devious step to make it somehow look legitimate and natural? Buy up and beat into submission/ruin the editorials that noticed and criticized the policy. And that's where almost all of the population got its "news" from. Here we like to look down and criticize Russia, Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and other dictatorships in North Africa and Middle-East about how they repress dissenting thoughts, yet somehow we naively assumed this wasn't happening in the "free world". Popular opinion in Europe has always been opposed to mass immigration, but it was never given the due air time and all we ever saw was occasional angry rebuttals on radio, dailies and TV about how "ignorant", "racist" and "fascist" those opposed to this undemocratic policy were. And even when such opinions were seen, they had no effect on the governments, which even promised to curb it once elected, but surprise, surprise! scaled it up once in power.
Then, after immigrants from outside Europe gathered sizable numbers, the press started parading about how "wonderful" and "multicultural" our countries had become. Feature films, programs and documentaries started appearing and showing their increased presence in the society. The entire education from cradle to grave was written by people that strictly adhered to this new ideology. The newer generations gradually stuck more and more to the leftist ideology of the 60s sexual revolution (again, supported by the press) and were born into a more and more advanced state of "multiculturalism", which is where the perception of it being "natural" comes from. They were led through an entire education and environment where all of these myths were affirmed, not knowing about reality in the past and/or being conditioned to be disgusted at it. Crimes and problems that arose because of this development were covered up, especially that of Islam in Europe. off course, the Left also pushed the narrative of how bad colonialism was (which is true to some extent), while refusing to acknowledge the good aspects of it, along with claiming that "everyone is mixed", which created guilt in the former colonial nations and also tried to validate mass immigration by saying "we're all mixed anyway, so why are you racists somehow against it now?". Leftists claimed that they were merely "telling the vanquished's side of the story", which is fine enough, but then proceeded to make it the only acceptable one! Meaning,
they simply reversed the situation. This stuff is, btw, what I hear in my university, which does not tolerate counter-arguments (I also know it's the case in most others). It's especially bad
when students are frequently just as, if not even more intolerant of them than the teachers. Basically, aside from probably Japan, entire societies are taught about how evil their ancestors were, while failing to teach about the invasions and enslavement of Europeans by Huns, Moors, Tartars, Turks and the Barbary Pirates, as well as things like the colonization of Africa by Arabs prior to the Europeans setting foot there. I'm all for the negative aspects about us being brought up, it's good for self-improvement as well, but at least be consistent and apply it to everyone!
I've only told here a small fraction of how deep the rabbit hole is (I could continue for dozens of times the amount I wrote here), but in short, our entire societies are constructed to continue this dire situation further and further. I said after the Paris attacks (which themselves followed the January 2015 shooting and others before) that these terrorist attacks would increase in number, and sure enough, the bloodbath in Brussels proved me right. And off course, the entire media is silent, or in denial about the link to Islamic terrorism and the ongoing catastrophe of the millions of illegals and Muslims (comparatively few are refugees, yet another of the media lies) flooding into Europe, which sparked a vast increase in crime. What kind of free press is this?!?! Why are mass demonstrations all over Europe against this madness covered up, while those in favor of it get wide coverage? Why is Merkel putting in prison Germans that criticize this insanity??? One doesn't have to be intelligent to predict this is going to continue to get worse. One just needs to have access to different sources of information, and that's what the majority of the population lacks. Hence the total denial of reality from so many people.
Now about the presidential elections, I see all this fear-mongering about Trump, but echoing DLPB's sentiment, even acknowledging that he's not perfect, being the only likely anti-PC candidate in the elections, that automatically makes him better than the others. Also, what is wrong about stopping illegal immigrants from Mexico and being in a partnership, rather than constant antagonism against Russia? Political correctness is the disease of our societies that prevents honest discussion and constructive measures to be proposed, only allowing room for those points of view that perpetuate the calamity, while silencing
a priori those against as "hateful" and "unworthy". I honestly don't see Donald Trump changing that much even
if he's elected, and he may well also break his promises in that case. Heck, he may even turn out to be catastrophic as
strawberries. Still, other candidates look even worse. He's at worst the lesser evil
right now. Literally the only reason there is this entire attack by the Western press on him is because he's resolute and doesn't accept their prejudiced view of how the world really is.
P.S: I'll try putting posts like these in a more appropriate thread, but I needed to respond to DLPB's thoughts here just this once. This kind of stuff affects everyone, I really wish humanity could progress, but it's difficult with this kind of people ruling us...
