American left-wingers enjoy bashing their own country and pointing to places like Canada as more “ideal” and more liberal. (Whether that picture is accurate is a debate for another time). The ignorant leftists would be surprised to find that ordinary Canadians have a far more benevolent view of America than our own liberals could ever imagine.
American leftists suffer from a similar ignorance when it comes to their views about Europe. They think Europe is a land of universal socialism, multiculturalism, and “anti-racism.” They ignore or deny the terrible strain that mass Islamic immigration has placed upon Europe, and deny even more ferociously the legitimacy of the response of the indigenous European people, which has taken the form of nationalist parties that are far more organized and popular than any equivalents in the United States.
We (meaning virtually every Western country) are all under assault from a common enemy, a tsunami of illegal Third World immigration. A tsunami that will, if left unchecked, cause permanent changes to the culture and quality of life in the host countries. Changes that are not only undesirable, but were never requested or voted upon by the host population. I believe that in the future, petty differences between Western countries will be put more and more to the side, as more and more people realize just how much we have in common and just who the real enemy is.
One trip to a European soccer game will dispel them of that illusion.