EU and UK politics [OT]

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From the little that I've read about these riots, it looks like the typical scenario where the far-right is able to gain traction by getting economically frustrated people on board. Immigrants are the usual scapegoat, because it's the easiest sell. The far-right's objective is a white ethnostate and regular people are being mobilized to rally against immigration by making them believe that that would fix the regular people's problems.

But it isn't the immigrants that are extracting the wealth of the common folk, like usual it's the rich people who keep exploiting all the systems to grow their wealth. These rich people can be politicians who push for favorable laws for the rich (whom they themselves belong to), rich people who lobby hard to get politicians to do the things they want or rich people who own media companies to influence public opinion. The latter preferably run anti-immigration messages, because again, that's the easiest sell.

The solution here is to tax the rich harder and redistribute the wealth. But the inherent problem of a capitalistic world is that wealth can buy power, so implementing such a blatantly easy solution is actually very, very hard.