That's an incredibly insightful post, thanks!
It has shed a lot of light onto the system in Germany at current. There are definitely some parallels here in the UK (it's a scarily similar approach) but also some fundamental differences.
In the UK we have a 2 year waiting period to receive benefits for immigrants from outside the European Economic Area, so there's significantly less pressure on the welfare system in that regard.
We have a similar system in which the tax payer subsidises low wage workers via something called "tax credits". So just like in Germany the public are directly subsidising massive corporate entities instead of legislating for them to pay higher wages that they can well afford.
Over here, while we have some immigration, the attack on the welfare system and social infrastructure networks are coming simply through cuts. The ideology is being pushed under the guise of "balancing the books" (despite having ever increasing debt...). Over the last decade the systematic attack has been on our public health system (the NHS). Effectively, ever increasing cuts and stealth privatising schemes (that drastically increase real terms costs) have put the system under immense strain.
This NHS crisis has been plastered across the media constantly and relentlessly stating it's at breaking point and that it's unsustainable etc. There has been a concerted effort to put the idea in the public eye that it's impossible not to privatise. This is despite having corruption and expenses scandals from MPs only getting a day or so coverage. Luckily the UK public are extremely defensive about the NHS and opinion still favours it. So, more stealth privatising instead.
Over here the approach is to distract the right leaning people with the idea that immigrants are taking their jobs and their opportunities, that immigrants are taking their hospital beds, that if the "foreigners" were stopped then we'd have money for infrastructure and healthcare etc. The utter madness is that it's our conservative party saying these things. People that ideologically don't believe in public services are telling the population that public service issues are only broken because of immigrants, and the people that MOST need those public services are voting for the very people that seek to sell everything off to the private sector. It's utter madness and a completely clear example that the media are completely and utterly partisan to the government (and vice versa).
The left leaning people (that aren't acutely aware of what's happening outside their daily lives) are manipulated and distracted via "gender imbalances". For young women, MEN are now the enemy. Men want to keep them down and oppress them etc. I see women with some of the most fortunate and privileged upbringings talking about how they're oppressed. Many women in the world ARE oppressed, of course, but in the West it's largely a distraction tactic.
The social infrastructure systems in the UK are in no way comparable to Germany or the rest of Northern Europe, but it's almost uncanny how media corruption and misinformation are being used to gain support for corporate interest based policy. People no longer understand what they're voting for and it's a crying shame.
It has been really interesting to read how similar the approaches are in both countries and it's such a sinister premise.
