Randahl FinkFeb 26

Watching tonights election debate in Denmark, I am very disappointed to see that 3 out of 12 parties are running on an anti-Muslim agenda: Danmarksdemokraterne, Dansk Folkeparti, and Borgernes Parti.

Denmark is an extremely well functioning country with just 3 percent unemployment, low crime rates, and a high level of happiness, and our Muslim minority is indeed a part of that. Were they not here, Danish employers would be missing hundreds of thousands of employees.

This makes no sense at all.

Show threadHans van ZijstFeb 26
@Randahl Fink Populism isn't about making sense, it's solely about pitching people against each other.
Show threadQuantum
@hans @randahl But why pitch people against each other? The success formula is: Extort the lower/middle class from their welfare and give it to the extremely rich. In return the rich prop up your party with loads of money. The robbed people stay happy as long as others (immigrants) are lots worse off than they themselves. Btw, the far right learned this success formula from neo-liberalism.
Feb 26 at 10:33pmWeb
Show threadHans van ZijstFeb 27
@Quantum
Btw, the far right learned this success formula from neo-liberalism.

Nah, the idea is much, much older than that. Caesar already used it when he conquered Gallica: "divide et impera".

He would pitch one Gaul tribe against the other and make them fight among themselves, so he only needed to clean up the remaining bits afterwards.