A short while ago, I pointed out that unfettered immigration would lead to unrest. Since then, unrest has started to pick up in places like France, and particularly in Ireland, where things exploded after a piece of filth attacked children with a knife.

In light of this, I’ll go ahead and offer my opinion on the matter, and I’ll keep it brief, because that would suffice.

I don’t have a knack for seeing the future. I didn’t need it because I could already see the tension that was there. In this environment, all that’s needed for things to move along in a hurry is for someone to do something incredibly stupid, which will cause people to react in a way that expresses the tension.

Right now, the left is blaming the right for the public’s reaction, when in reality, the left bears the blame for what is the natural and expected outcomes of their policies.

The left believed that they could retire easier in spite of falling birth rates by inviting immigrants into their country with the idea that they could be put to work, and feed into the Social Security scheme. Such an idea is damnably idiotic. The outcome is that these very same immigrants have largely gone on welfare, turning into a drain on the system, rather than contributing. Worse yet, many of them turned out to be criminals on the run, some are human traffickers working for cartels, and some have brought a culture with them that is absolutely incompatible with a civil society.

As it turns out, assuming good intentions can be dangerously naive.

I’m not really worried that the political right is going to capitalize on recent trends, and gain institutional power with the support of a common population who would be more interested in leaders that more closely mirror their values. At this point, it’s all but a certainty. What’s worrisome is that those who assume authority will tend towards extremes in their positions. The right would do well to remember their own virtues regarding limited government and personal liberties, and know that the immigration crisis can be reversed in a responsible manner.

Having said that, it’s obvious that the responsible way to go about it involves mass deportations. The left will scream bloody murder over it, and bang their pots and pans together. They’re free to make their noise. But after decades of getting their way with minimal resistance, to not have their way would be something for them to get accustomed to.

The left has a bad habit of attempting to disassociate their policy positions from the consequences of those positions, even when the consequences are so obvious that any reasonable person could see them coming. To see such belligerent foolishness would be almost rewarding, if it weren’t the common population who pays the price.

In any case, it remains that one of the most rewarding things about basic observation of reality is seeing things play out predictably. And I hope you’re ready, because this is going to be quite a show.