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The videos from Barcelona are truly shocking. A violent mob devastating the city center, looting stores and setting fires. Families with children locked in a department store during Saturday shopping. Violent riots in Paris, Marseille, Milan, Genoa, and now Barcelona. What else needs to happen for Europe to understand that the current mass migration approach doesn’t work? We somehow got used to concrete blocks in front of Christmas markets, should we now get used to violent mobs devastating our cities every Saturday? Socialists push uncontrolled mass immigration because they need the votes. Why should we accept that though? It harms our safety, makes housing less affordable, and lifelong welfare drains the economy. Isn’t that too high a price to the society for left parties to import their voters? Countries like Poland or Hungary show how to address it. Three things: First, protect the borders and don’t grant asylum to those crossing illegally. Poland does that, why can’t others? Second, consequently deport criminals. Why do they riot and loot? Because they know that even if arrested, there will be no serious consequences. Third, eliminate lifelong welfare. Unconditional benefits are a huge pull factor for people to move to Europe in the first place. People on permanent welfare don’t contribute to society, they drain it. Look at Poland again, no lifelong welfare, resulting in safe streets, very low unemployment, and a fast-growing economy. With low birth rates, Europe needs immigration, but the current uncontrolled mass immigration approach creates more problems than it solves, and requires urgent adjustment. What else must happen for politicians to stop denying reality?

The trends in Britain could hardly be worse. Last year 45 millionaires and entrepreneurs left every day, while 3,000 welfare recipients were added. The exodus is at its highest level in a century. Calls for higher taxes and a political climate treating successful founders as a problem rather than an asset are driving entrepreneurs and high-net-worth individuals to the UAE, Switzerland and Singapore, places that welcome capital and talent and reward innovation and job creation instead of punishing it. Debt is already at 95% of GDP and interest costs are rising fast. A country that punishes hard work and innovation while rewarding laziness faces a bleak future and a likely debt crisis down the road. Left calls for even higher taxes will only drive more hard-working people away, increasing the burden on those who remain. The left’s “tax the rich” approach in reality just prompts emigration and shifts more costs to the middle class.

The main problem in Europe is that too many people have been indoctrinated to believe prosperity can be redistributed rather than created. Left indoctrination in education and legacy media has caused such deep damage that many simply insist to refuse any reasonable arguments and have somehow learned to ignore socialism’s well-documented history of failure, poverty, and misery. Unfortunately, those who take prosperity for granted must experience socialist misery themselves, as they are immune to arguments and history. Only then might they wake up, and perhaps our children will have a better future afterwards. Please correct me if you can, I would really want to be wrong about this.