JoeLeg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Precisely. > > When moderates and centrists refuse to have > difficult conversation like immigration and > segregation, they automatically cede the debate to > the extreme edges. Reasonable, tolerant people > suddenly find themselves accused of all sorts of > nonsense and have no way back in. > > Is there a problem with immigration? Well, a lot > of people seem to think so, so we should be > talking abut it. But we don?t, so only the idiots > get airtime, and they make tremendous headway > before anyone else has realised the race is on. > > ETA - I was responding to an erudite and > reasonable post from flocker who has now deleted > it, not sure why. sorry, it seemed to be stating the obvious and was dragging in periperahl/ not so perihperal issues like brexit.