One is reminded of Bertolt Brecht's quip about government dissolving the people and electing another except it is not so funny now.
Yet, as they displace the people with another through immigration they are finding governing even harder. The people have become sectarian and even less governable. In private they are begining to recognise the mistake, as Macron's recent intemporate remarks in Mayotte attest (and even Hollande said there are too many muslims in France but only after he left office) and as the rise of the AfD, Swedish Democrats et al render public the issue they have tried to suppress discussion of.
Brecht also said: "Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons."
He also said: "There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones."
If a house containing two children, one of which was yours, were on fire and you could only save one, which one would it be? The answer to that is the basis for all the policies that follow. One day babies may be fertilised and gestated in a laboratory. Then things would change.
One is reminded of Bertolt Brecht's quip about government dissolving the people and electing another except it is not so funny now.
Yet, as they displace the people with another through immigration they are finding governing even harder. The people have become sectarian and even less governable. In private they are begining to recognise the mistake, as Macron's recent intemporate remarks in Mayotte attest (and even Hollande said there are too many muslims in France but only after he left office) and as the rise of the AfD, Swedish Democrats et al render public the issue they have tried to suppress discussion of.
Brecht also said: "Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons."
He also said: "There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones."
We must all become indispensable.
If a house containing two children, one of which was yours, were on fire and you could only save one, which one would it be? The answer to that is the basis for all the policies that follow. One day babies may be fertilised and gestated in a laboratory. Then things would change.