exactly.
people will always want the easy way out, power will always flow to those who seem to provide that 'easy way' even if it is a racist party.

though on the subject on xenophobia and racism, in a purely academic sense. did not these now negative quality's serve a positive purpose back in the days of hunter gatherer tribes?
i am looking at this a purely natural point of view, ie nature has no concept of morals or right and wrong. only traits that let organisms survive and traits that don't. i don't buy the common view that these things are abnormal quality's, even evil. no this doesn't mean i am a racist, though i am sure a few of you will think that now. my view is that these behavior traits, more or less kept the population disperse enough that they do not over-tax the environment around them leading to everyone's or close to everyone's death. this is not to say this trait was not overcome when say one tribe needed fresh blood to prevent from in-breeding. i also do not view these traits as very strong. if they were civilization would not of formed.

In other words, Kill the Poor, Kill the Disabled, Kill the Weak, Kill anyone not like us. Survival of the chosen few is all that matters. I believe Germany had a philosophy like this back in the 1930's and '40's. It was called Eugenics.(actually the Eugenics movement was worldwide in the early 20th century.)

A lot of their play book they got from the US.

For example, in the 1930's a Respectable, Rightous, Upstanding, Man of the Community, yada yada P

Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 stands out among anti-miscegenation laws that can be traced to eugenic advocacy. To fashion a successful legislative strategy, three local Virginia eugenicists – John Powell, Earnest Cox and Walter Plecker – consulted with Madison Grant and Harry Laughlin. Powell, a celebrated pianist and composer, was the founder of the Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America, an elitist version of the Ku Klux Klan dedicated to maintaining "Anglo-Saxon ideals and civilization in America." Like The Passing of the Great Race, Cox's book White America emphasized white supremacy and the dangers of racial mixing. Plecker was registrar at the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Virginia Board of Health. His ideas on racial interbreeding as the source of "public health" problems appeared in state-published pamphlets distributed to all who planned to marry.

When The Racial Integrity Act became law, it included provisions requiring racial registration certificates and strict definitions of who would qualify as members of the white race. It emphasized the "scientific" basis of race assessment, and the "dysgenic" dangers of race mixing. Its major provision declared: "It shall hereafter be unlawful for any white person in this State to marry any save a white person, or a person with no other admixture of blood than white and American Indian. …the term "white person" shall apply only to such person as has no trace whatever of any blood other than Caucasian; but persons who have one-sixteenth or less of the blood of the American Indian and have no other non-Caucasic blood shall be deemed to be white persons…."

http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/essay7text.html

Goto this 4 page article and read the first couple paragraghs. Couldn't copy paste it. It's a Small 4 page PDF.
http://www.weyanoke.org/pdf/plecker2.pdf

He writes "I sometime regret that we do not have the authority to put some these measures in practice in Virginia". That was in a letter to the German official that wrote the German Eugenics laws. He was appaulding the german's sterlizing 600 children(and why) in Algeria.

A good backgroud read.

Sorry for going out on a tangent. But this was only a while ago. 1-2 generations. The feelings have not had er... 'Closure' yet.

Financial collapse will bring these feelings to the for front in Peak Oil times I fear.

I hope I am wrong and my fellow man will 'Help" each other

John