What&#x27;s happening here is the following phenomenon. Suppose the establishment lies to you about something. But that something keeps growing, and eventually you see through the lie. Now someone comes along and actually tells you you&#x27;ve been lied to, and reveals this truth to you.<p>The general reaction to this situation is to trust this newcomer more than the establishment, since he had the guts to reveal the big lie. (This is a logical fallacy, but emotionally it&#x27;s awesome.)<p>The establishment left in Europe, from what I can see, is lying about the problems of Muslim immigrants and crime&#x2F;other social problems. Witness the attempts by various politicians to sweep Cologne under the rug, for example, or removing ethnicity from crime statistics in Sweden. It&#x27;s hard to keep a problem like this completely under wraps; eventually something like Cologne will hit the internets and eventually the media won&#x27;t be able to ignore it.<p>If you want a left wing solution to the problem of Muslim immigrants failing to assimilate, robbing and raping people, the left will actually need to acknowledge the problem and propose a solution. If the left continues ignoring the issue, then folks will naturally turn to the racist right wing folks who seem to be proposing solutions rather than lying about the problem.<p>(Note: don&#x27;t interpret my criticism of the European left as support for the racist right. And if you think I&#x27;m factually wrong, I&#x27;d love to see crime stats demonstrating this. Obviously not from Sweden...)