Soundwave said:
Well coming from a wealthy family, I'm certainly not a Marxist. I don't have to work a day in my life if I don't want to.
That said this sounds like you've drank a whole lot of paranoia kool-aid. Pretty much all economies all socialist democracies at this point. Yes, even the US even though they huff and puff about it, that's largely an outdated Cold War-era rally cry. If you have a socialized transportation, police, military, Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, education, etc. etc. which the US does, that's (gasp!) socialism. Europe, Australia, Japan, Canada are socialist democracies pretty much, those are pretty much all you lead economies aside from Russia and China which do have extensive social programs despite not being democratic per se.
There will always be societal change and there will always be people who think it signals the end of society, but really it ain't gonna happen.
A few minority of Muslims with no real military backing (ISIS could be wiped out in a weekend by the US if they really wanted to do it, they have no air force, a handful of real tanks, and are smaller than the Ethopian army) aren't going to cause the downfall of civilization.
We live in a fairly safe world to be honest, unless Russian/China decide to become hostile to the US, there are no real global threats in the way that World War II was or even more dangerously the Cold War was (which brought the world to the brink of state nuclear conflict). Society isn't going to fall apart.
I think concerns about Muslim extremism are legitimate and that immigration and integration policy needs to be updated but done so in a logical and humane fashion, that said, the overwhelming majority of immigrants are just well ... normal people are aren't religious extremists. Also hopefully the war in Syria is one time occurance and not something that happens every few years, what's happening now is a bit (sadly) unique circumstance.
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