Originally Posted by
AqD
I don't think they're actually ideologists or wanting to help, but they're just doing what is easy and appears to be humane and moral.
It's probably more related to democracy, or true democracy where politicians try or at least pretend to act on what people seek. You can't seriously ask the majority of educated people to publicly turn their back on the needy, to be intolerant, or criticize entire cultures or communities. Immigration is hardly the only issue, but what can you do? People cannot be expected to comprehend the depth of those issues or be turned into cold, calculating machines.
On the other hand, it's not much a problem in countries where elites dominate politics and with minimal input from people, such as Japan. But they have entirely different kinds of problems.