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Warpy

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1. Expect more

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun May 22, 2016, 03:21 AM

May 2016

The flood of Middle Eastern refugees will definitely scare people into voting for far right lunatics who promise crackdowns and vow to preserve order. It sucks but it happens more often than not.

Eventually, either people will realize the new folks coming in are good people who want to work, pay their taxes, keep their houses tidy, and generally not bother anyone else and the lunatics will be voted out because they manage to piss everybody off.

However, a temporary turn to the hard right is probably going to happen in more than one country.

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