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That just saddens me. I mean, by itself that's a good thing, worrying what other nations might think. Unfortunately, nowadays it's 'normal' to be against immigrants in the west. If you don't say immigrants are bad, you're not going to win more seats in an election in the west. All immigrants, african, arabs, laborers from east europe, even expats from the US, all must be labelled dangerous or just bad.Have different experience here in CZ. It´s perfectly OK to say populists are a threat to a society, but not that O.K. to say immigrants are dangerous, because of "oh, what would western europeans think of us, we are all eastern post-comunist rasists...".
It's similar to how the US would again lose credibility if Trump would win, western Europeans are in no position to point fingers to east Europeans when it comes to dealing with immigrants. We're not as multiculti and tolerant as we pretended to be or previous generations were. It was more an idea than reality. Nowadays, they're too busy being and electing racists and anti-immigrants themselves. All the way from Scandinavia to Portugal to Italy and Greece.
Yeah that seems to be more common with populists nowadays, they don't even try to remain consistent and will say whatever they think will get them votes and a seat.Next winner of ellections will be Andrej Babiš. He has no real political opinion but is interested only in his money and power. He would easily say "lets take half a milion immigrants here", and the other week, "not a single muslim women", if he gets any profit from that. That´s what populism means for me.