Ireland, the Troubles and Having Your Lunch Eaten

It's not the immigrants to start with. Do not blame the immigrants. They are humans the same as you and I. They are 'the people' too.

But now, the old gangsters from the troubles in the 70's are having their lunch eaten by the immigrants, who have their own tacit 'government' as all gangs do.

But why are both these factions forming their own 'government'? 

Because for 30 years, the legalised state which the people select as a whole, has been destroying the immigrants' and the natives' opportunities to find work and start a small business. Taxation is effectively 'attacking' its own people. Those on the margins, which are the low skilled workers of these two factions, go under quickly when they hit even small problems thanks to the stupidity of the state and its taxation. 

What's more, the state for some peculiar reason is refusing to give its people a motive for mass immigration while standing in the way of the immigrants starting work and their own business. Nobody really knows why we are where we are and the government seems to be forbidden from talking about it.

Its no different for the natives. Ultimately the immigrants will join them in the temptation of benefits withdrawal, where thanks to the state attacking them in the same way too, will also soon join the welfare state as it becomes cheaper than doing hard, low skilled work. 

There is no difference between native and immigrant low skilled workers here. The anti migrant propaganda is futile. A more authentic politic would be an anti state propaganda which though a borderline conspiracy is not in the least bit short of reason. So the people in general are kind of forbidden from discussing it. This is in no small part thanks to recent government policy of putting people in jail for hurty words on social media - create a problem, then to solve that problem create another one, never stop causing harm and attacking its own people. 

So be it. The gangsters from the troubles are now holding sway in the Northern Ireland protests, while the government insists on recklessly doing nothing to stop its attacks on both factions and is curiously either unable or unwilling to state clearly its policy and motive for mass migration. 

The gangsters are merely protecting their territory. From the migrants. Because the state is refusing to protect it for all people. Protecting property is the first duty of the state and its becoming clear to the people it is no longer doing it effectively. A tipping point. 

So it's not the immigrants which are a problem, per se. It is once again the state which is failing its people.

But what exactly is the state? 

Well in the most important way, it's the people isn't it? So it is really the people who are failing. And there's a lot of inertia and lag in how the people as an unconscious entity changes its mind. A lot of pain and suffering too.