The European Parliament has given the green light to the first list of “safe countries of origin” whose citizens will no longer be able to seek asylum in the EU.
The list includes Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Kosovo, India, Morocco and Tunisia as well as EU candidate countries such as the Western Balkans nations, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia.
I absolutely agree. But in the aftermath of the US the question was how could this happen?
This thread is a classic example.
Do better is an ideal we would all love. But in real life a huge majority of people are feeling poor and downtrodden. I don’t personally believe what they are voting for is the best thing for them or others, but it’s their vote. The result will repercussions for all.
In the US the pattern is blindingly obvious and has been repeating for more than 50 years. One party makes life worse for the working class while making the rich richer, people get angry and vote for the other party, which then does the same thing but under different guises and with different policies. The exact policies in question (neoliberalism vs. neoconservatism) were not that relevant to these mechanics, except everything kept naturally shifting to the right (which is the ideology most convenient for the billionaires).
Now neocons are straight up fascists, and it’s not clear there will be another election.
So, yeah, there’s an obvious solution to this: improve their economic status! There are dozens of “mechanically easy” policies that would lead to this: taxing the rich way more, reindustrializing the country, building and leasing out social housing, implementing strict rent control (or abolishing rent entirely), setting price caps on daily necessities, etc. Immigration is irrelevant to this.
Shifting your ideology to the right to appease nazis literally never works, it is a death spiral for any political organization, leading either to irrelevance or nazism. Instead you resolve the underlying grievances of the working class. However, most political parties in the west are beholden to billionaires and will not do this without significant organizing and pressure from the workers.
I applaud your ideals. I hope it works out for where ever you are located. Everyone deserves some peace and love.