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6. This
It's pretty hard to sugar coat the situation in some of these countries. I've read that incidents of rape and sexual assault have gone way up in countries like Sweden. France has suffered from a number of Islamic terror attacks, and Germany is being somewhat overwhelmed by the masses of refugees.
Naturally the residents of these countries feel threatened by the situation (Can you really blame them?), and they're responding by supporting right wing candidates who promise solutions. The threat of Muslim migrants may have even contributed to the numbers of women who supported Trump. I know one woman who voted for the Orange Messiah because she worried about Hillary inviting in a bunch of Syrian refugees
This DU-member almost had a head-on collision with the truth, but just missed it by stopping short of it. Yes, basically, to what I quoted. What (s)he stopped short of is that those EuroLiberal governments naively brought all those vile & violent immigrants into Scandinavia, Germany, etc., and when their violence and sexual assaults became notorious - the New Year's coordinated gang assaults on celebrating European women was less than a year ago!!! - the response of the EuroLiberal governments was cover-up and denial, rather than acknowledging the problem and working to solve it. Then there's the governments of the Netherlands, France, the UK, and Sweden (Norway, too?), which have been having this kind of @#$% for a decade and more, and have done nothing meaningful toward acknowledgement and solution (actually, calling out the problems and demanding solutions is a hate crime in those countries!).
