Now Donald Trump has all the excuse to pursue with increased vigour his xenophobic ideas, his immigration bill waning, having failed 3 times through congress. I watched with some concerns as he made statements about tightening the borders more, shutting down lottery diversity program and chain immigration. New York type of brutal attack has been prevalent here in Europe where the borders border are more porous and immigration programs are generally much more lenient
So he cannot easily see that minus 9/11, over 90% of US mass killings are carried out by US citizens, without religious motivation but other deep psychological problems. For the purpose of this thread I will use the word 'fringes' for both home grown non-faith based killings and foreign-faith based terrorism
Of course this is "manna from heaven" to his fan base, but is he right? Is that the solution? Isn't there more intelligent, quicker and more effective solutions?
Firstly i will briefly indulge in a bit of distraction:- when I made this thread a while ago I have been centre-left, now I am going right wing.... .....
( wow!, someone has been working really hard... at downvoting me in that thread, well feel free to downvote this one also ).
... anyway... admittedly the linked thread has been a knee-jerk reaction from me, because the intensity of the European attacks has been ferocious. I have soon realised that taking such a seismic shift in mindset is tough mainly because - right wing mindset comes with its own bagadge most of which outright annoys me. And even if i filter out some narrow ideologies, maintaining such mind-set was always going to be a herculean task for me, so I have gladly bowed out of such mindset and thinking of better ways
Back to topic. Some idea I have thinking might work: How about setting up public-government-anger forums, for deeply troubled people ... where there will be a deal that no one can be arrested on anything they say on the forum. Even if they talk about doing terrible things, as long as they keep the communication going and don't carry out their intentions. This will allow people on the fringes to freely express their deep-sitted anger and grudges against the west/governments. So at least a communication and dialogue can get started with some good people on the other side. And who knows a fraction may come to their senses through psychologically assessing them. ATM the one sided anger forums that exist (if they exist at all) are either heavily spied on and raided by the feds or hidden in the dark web, set up by disgruntles themselves, to fuel the fire of anger rather than to create a dialogue to quench it. Except if I've been leaving in a cave all this while and such sites/forums exist already.
On the other hand it might be the dumbest and a too simplistic idea since the worst of the troubled and angered people may still feel its a bait or trap .... so feel free to call it bullshit (no sarcasm, I genuinely mean it, if you feel its BS, and kindly state why)
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