A piece that I posted some years back has gained new relevance with the horrific violence that has broken out across the UK. The German government had taken in over 1 million migrants in a single year, the overwhelming number of whom were young Middle Eastern males who effectively just walked across the border. That seemed a recipe for disaster. As I noted, the native population are “not there for the money or security; they’re there because that’s who they are”. Yet those people had no say in a massive demographic shift that would affect them profoundly. I mentioned that while controlled immigration is one thing, a flood of migrants on that scale was bound to have consequences. And so it has proved, albeit in the UK. I wondered what might happen “when an oppressed people rise up against their oppressors – those people being the German public, and the oppressors the German government (substitute the names of other European countries as appropriate)”. We’re now finding out. 

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders were at the time still vying to be their respective party’s nominee for that year’s presidential election. Otherwise, the references should be clear. 

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