MarvyGuy wrote:
> I completely reject the term Xenophobia as I have covered
> before. It is a made up term and means nothing but is what you
> call in US a "dog whistle".
I don't know what you mean by "dog whistle." Xenophobia comes from
the same Greek word for stranger as my name. And when I use the word
xenophobia, I mean it to describe what's going on around the world
today, for the first time since WW II, and it tells us a great deal
about where the world is going in the future.
Once again, there is a movement in countries around the world to
nationalism and xenophobia, and I've been writing about it for years.
It's now Trump that brought it full force to America.
Trevor wrote:
> I'm going to have to disagree with you on that one. Based on what
> I've seen of millennials, they're not that patriotic and
> nationalistic at all. In fact, many of them sound ashamed of the
> United States. The reasons vary, but it seems to be almost a
> constant. Trump is deeply unpopular with even Republican
> millennials.
Nationalism and xenophobia are growing, but they're by no means
universal. For example, some of the far right parties in European
countries have had their approval ratings grow from about 2% to
10-15% (quoting from memory).
Here's an interesting thing to think about: Trump has been saying that
his wife has been telling him to "act presidential," but if he did
that, instead of saying the things he said, then he'd have ten
supporters instead of thousands.
The obviously implication is that Trump is stoking nationalistic and
xenophobic fervor in order to gain supporters, and that he may not
mean a word he says. I happen not to believe that, but since he's
lied on several occasions, there's no particular reason to believe
that anything he says is an actual belief, with no purpose except to
get votes. The only thing we can be sure of is that he knows nothing
about what's going on in the world, although by this time I assume
someone's told him how to pronounce "Tanzania."