Europe's migrant problem

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

I suspect it will take a monumental event similar to that of a rotten roof caving in on us to get any real action. We're content with the annoying drip, drip, drip in the meantime.

Sort of reminds me of of our reaction to climate change in that regard.

I think we in the West are in the final stage of what all empires have gone through. We're sated, live in peace, have become decadent and have stopped fighting for ourselves and don't accept casualties among our own people or responsibility for what we do in the world. We're just looking for the easy way and that usually is to give up and let happen whatever happens. Now we'll just stand by and watch as others take action. Sooner or later those actions will remove us from the top seat and we won't do anything about it.