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According to cbs, crime is down significantly since 2010, from 1.2 million registered crimes in 2010 to 806k crimes in 2022. Of course that doesn't give the whole picture. CBS also reported 47% less murder/killings compared to 20 years ago.
Maybe the migrants are more visible now than they were, maybe it's more concentrated in certain parts of the country. It's no secret that the government is really mismanaging the situation.
But that wasn't the point of my initial remark: punching down, blaming the people that have the least power, that's doesn't make sense and isn't fair.
I'm afraid of this becoming a slippery slope. Suffrage (both active and passive) are very important rights that should never be infringed.
You can see the slippery slope in action in America: mass incarceration is being used as a way to take away voting rights from black people. Any loop hole will always be used by the people in power to remain in power.
It's not hard to predict that the right would classify "socialism" as "lying about the economy" and try to take suffrage away from socialists, or whatever they consider socialists that day.
What kind of safeguards are you thinking of? And doesn't that go against the right to make yourself electable?
Always easy punching down...
Depends on what compromises he needs to make in order to form a government. The 3rd and 4th biggest parties are also right wing, so I don't think he needs to make many, unfortunately.
First by the Ottoman Empire, then by the British empire, now by Israel
You haven't been to the USA or to any European country before the 80s to see that Christianity can be just as political and just as conservative.
If you give the situation a little more context, you can see the west's hands in this as well, similar to Palestine and other former colonies. After being brutally exploited by western powers, there were many secular and moderate resistance movements. Because they were socialist and considered a threat to the western dominance they were either ruthlessly bombed, like Laos and Vietnam, or the west supported dictators like Suharto, because they promised to kill all the communists for them. Even though the dictator is gone now, it will take many years for a moderate generation to grow again.
The exact same is happening in Palestine. The west supports Israel's ethnic cleansing, meaning that the only resistance that is left is groups like Hamas.
You don't see the irony in asking for deportations for the people that are protesting being deported from their homes?
People like you are the problem.