re: "Backlash"

Lex at Neptunus Lex ("The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy!") notes a development in Switzerland.

Money quote(s):

"Aging liberal democracies valued their social schemes more than their national identities, and imported vast numbers of aliens to buttress the ranks of working classes too content in the arms of an all embracing state to be bothered reproducing themselves. Attracted by the opportunities of liberal economies, too many of these immigrants brought with them the seeds of the same destruction that had wrecked their homelands, along with their carefully nurtured resentments. An unwillingness to fully assimilate to their new homes brought class stratification and economic stagnation, compounded by the burdens of unfashionable birth rates. Thus was born a permanent, self-isolating lower class, steeped in the legend of their own cultural superiority, always denied the sweeter fruits of the societies they had attached themselves to, whether out of poverty or puritanism. Thus agitation, crime and even terrorism. Thus reaction."

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"(T)he peoples of Europe have begun to see what cannot be hidden any longer. It was illuminated by the burning wrecks of automobiles in France’s zones sensibles, where even the police fear to tread, and given voice at last by Germany’s Angela Merkel, who was forced to admit that her country’s multicultural experiment had failed. In England it has been underlined by rape gangs and a series of women falling to their “accidental” deaths from apartment buildings.

If centrists political parties will not speak about the elephant in the room, the people will speak of it among themselves."