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Originally Posted by KrisW
I didnt say the right-wing was better than the left, OR that that right-wing should take over. All I was trying to say in my bad English (not my native language) was that its time for "politics" to step aside, and let "brains" take over. Integration is a big issue in my country because we have a high concentration of immigrants and refugees. We were to soft for 20 year's and now we suffer from misunderstood kindness because no-one had the balls to admit there was a problem. Now we have 2 generations of misguided youths (and so do many other countries)
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There is something in that Kris!
About four months ago I ended up chatting with some folks - tho this is only in one area, sustainable environments, social and ecological. The stuff they knew from decades of research is stunning. They forecast social unrest under certain conditions and over a relevatively short period, that this will increase and was part of a bigger scenario leading towards "unsustainability".
They have operated, literally all over the planet on projects of some kind or other at enormous cost. I asked if they made current govt's aware of their findings - yep, did many presentations to governments and employed by govt to do exactly this stuff. But the tendency was, their words, "the general attitude was, - I'll not be in power when that happens, so I don't need to bother".
The irony is that these folks have no political agenda whatsoever - it's common sense stuff, but they have good resources and can pinpoint changes in a community in China to downtown LA.
It's kinda sad this kinda knowledge is rarely accepted and acted upon (many govt's do act on it tho - but not enough!) - but that's where politics and local economic factors come in and leave little hope of common sense.