[Rolo]

I suspect alot of the european socialist parties in the 1980-90s thought that by letting in massive numbers of 3rd world immigrants and refugees, they would be able to build a new "working class" to secure that socialist parties still would have dominant power. However the rise in wealth have made the middle class the biggest and most powerful group today, and they tend to seek compromise instead of hardcore ideologies - unless thoses hardcore ideologies threaten the status quo in their lifes, which explains why the majority of middle class candian and europeans "hate" Bush, and why the majority of middle class USA "accepts" Bush, because terrorists threaten the status quo/harmony in the US.