A Disaster Foretold

American Thinker ^ | 30 Nov, 2024 | Lars Møller

[MtnClimber]

As in a dystopian suicide orgy, Westerners have staged their own downfall, defying common sense, loyalty to civilization, and love of family.

The myth of Laocoön is tragic. In vain, he warned his countrymen in Troy against opening the gate to the colossal wooden horse left behind by Greek invaders. However, he was blinded by the gods who then had him killed by giant sea serpents.

So, it is not as if it has not been foretold. As a matter of fact, it has been the subject of countless essays, speeches, and novels. We cannot plead ignorance.

In retrospect, the “Rivers of Blood” speech by British Member of Parliament Enoch Powell, a modern Laocoön, on April 20, 1968, ranks as a milestone. It marked a historical break with the politely restrained, purely observational attitude to large-scale immigration. The thing is that Powell — and others with allegiance to Western civilization — had a premonition of danger: they clearly saw a disaster in the making. Unless drastic measures were taken to prevent it, chances were that it would unfold in the near future, deeply affecting the lives of their own children and grandchildren.

Back then, when there was yet time to reverse the course of events, warnings went largely unheeded; they were ridiculed, trivialized, or ignored. As the West was subsequently overrun by migrants from Africa, the Middle East, and beyond, however, the political conflict intensified and — without further ado — absorbed the revolutionary, sentimental-manipulative elements of traditional “class struggle.”

Socialists without a credible cause in the “postmodern” world were thrilled to identify a new underclass of “oppressed” who could replace the white workers of the past. Showing signs of self-conscious individualism and aspiring to the middle class of society, the latter — “ungratefully” as it was perceived

[MtnClimber]

History shows what happens, but we have not learned from history.

[sit-rep]

...on anything...

[MtnClimber]

Now, we are here, in the middle of it. In the dark land of Dystopia. We have arrived in the future. Europe is burning. The disaster has occurred exactly as foretold. Those who once ridiculed the warnings — and the people who had the courage to step forward and alert their countrymen — refuse to take responsibility but persist in their treachery, telling other lies about how we should embrace diversity, be confident, and conform to the realities of a world changed beyond recognition. We are exhorted to go global in earnest and sacrifice our prosperity, welfare, and culture to accommodate all those who approach our borders from near and far.

[BobL]

Even though he brings up a lot of good points about mass Third World Immigration destroying Western society, one must consider the alternative, voting for people like Trump, who are a bit ‘rough around the edges’ and simply doesn’t have the level of class that us well-educated people have.

(my imitation of a typical college graduate voting for Harris)

[takebackaustin]

The poem attached to the what was intended to be a statue of Liberty, instead made it a beguiling Trojan horse at our gate:

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

[sauropod]

Just shut the border and deport the invaders.

[odawg]

“History shows what happens, but we have not learned from history.”

Actually, a historical lesson is not needed to warn of the dangers of massive invasion; basic common sense is all that is necessary.

All this is is divide and conquer with a different label to appeal to fools.

[Openurmind]

“History shows what happens, but we have not learned from history.”

Fact... Because “Nothing to worry about, never happen here” still persists.

Our own arrogance and overconfidence is our own Achilles heel.

[yldstrk]

“So far, warnings against the destruction of the West, whose relative success is due to the workings of Judeo-Christian institutions rather than natural resources (e.g. oil), have been arrogantly dismissed as the politically biased exaggerations of conservatives, if not “right-wing” radicals. With the self-righteous conviction of a revolutionary tribunal, progressive elites have been clamping down on public expressions of concern, accusing the presumptuous of “bigotry,” “racism,” or “xenophobia.” Thus, for a long time, Westerners turned their backs on the ominous events to avoid ridicule and defamation.”*

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Judeo Christian values have created the most stable prosperous civilization known to man. Everyone can see that. They just don’t want to admit it.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

The author’s analogy of Trojan horses is flawed as there was not a thousand Trojan horses simultaneously placed outside the gates of these countries. This didn’t happen all at once. Western nations watched as over many years one nation after another opened their borders resulting huge increases in violent crime, mobs, mass rapes, chaos, no-go zones, no assimilation, etc. Mass migration (especially of Islamists), failed EVERY TIME it was tried, yet they did it anyway. This was not a mistake, it was done ON PURPOSE to destroy the West.