Sweden Democrats are rising because people are morons. Any attempt to justify this otherwise amounts to condoning xenophobia (which I'm sure many posters are all too happy to do anyway).
Tony, you know and I know that there is a difference between justification and explanation. 'Because people are morons' isn't an explanation because people can be morons in all sorts of different ways, only some of which cause them to vote for xenophobic political parties.
What is it about this issue that leads to absurdity, hyperbole and the construction of alternate versions of reality? The question is whether people would rather have an actual discussion or would prefer to screech aimlessly at each other.
Yes. I apologize. I was neither in the mood nor in the situation to write an intelligent post about this issue (that twisted ankle turned out to be a fracture, and I was posting from a waiting room of the emergencies), so I instead chose to vent the main emotion that this thread inspired me. A few people managed to express my opinion pretty well (DFB and Foucaulf come to mind) so I'll leave it there.
