The West Eats Itself

American Thinker ^ | 5 May, 2025 | J.B. Shurk

[MtnClimber]

Western governments undermine elections, religious freedom, free markets, and free speech.

The same Western leaders who speak endlessly about “protecting Democracy” continue to rig elections, outlaw political parties, and prosecute candidates. Germany has declared Alternative for Germany — now the country’s most popular party — an “extremist group” on par with domestic terror organizations. The European Union helped Marxist globalists in Romania invalidate a presidential election and ban the winner from office. France and Brazil have followed the U.S. example of bringing ludicrous criminal charges against popular anti-Establishment politicians, and while President Trump overcame the sham prosecutions targeting him, Marine Le Pen and Jair Bolsonaro are fighting just to survive.

Let’s not forget either that the Ukraine-Russia War drags on today only because U.S. and European forces helped overthrow the legitimately elected Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, back in 2014. His transgression? Yanukovych’s government was pushing back against the EU’s efforts to absorb Ukraine into its continental empire. The same NATO and EU talking-heads who denounce Russia’s conquest of its neighbor are mostly mad because they hoped to conquer Ukraine first.

It’s a disorienting time for Westerners who once respected their civic institutions. The Cold War mentality of the twentieth century created clear distinctions between closed, communist systems and rights-based, free societies. In the West, people could freely practice the religious tenets of their respective faiths; in communist societies, people were expected to obey the quasi-divine strictures of the State. In the West, people could own property and freely exchange goods and services; in communist societies, people owned nothing and received only what the State gave them. In the West, people could speak their minds and publicly debate new ideas; in communist societies, people adhered to politically correct ideology under the constant threat of arrest, torture, and even death.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: antireligion; civilrights; collapse; concerntroll; crime; dissent; freespeech; harassment; jbshurk; leftism; persecution; putinistas; thewest

[MtnClimber]

Leftists, marxists, whatever you want to call them. They marched through western institutions indoctrinating weak-minded people as they went. It was just like cancer destroying societies.

[SaveFerris]

[metmom]

Nothing says *democracy* like outlawing and banning political parties and prosecuting and jailing political opponents.

[mewzilla]

Speaking of marching while the West eats itself..

Watching the VE commemoration from the UK this morning...

There’s is a small contingent of Ukrainian soldiers marching in the UK’s parade.

Isn’t there a war on in Ukraine at the moment?

Why aren’t these guys at the freaking front?!

[faithhopecharity]

As for the communists/ democrats/ socialists/ “progressives:”

“Man (commies, etcetera)…is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”
George Orwell, Animal Farm

[SMARTY]

Marx was English. He represents the typical English hatred for the wealthy

[Telepathic Intruder]

Without free speech, any opinion which the government recognizes as a threat to its power can become illegal. This is how fascism is born.

[mewzilla]

And the King just saluted the Ukrainians...

BTW, there were more Ukrainians than US personnel in that parade if my count is correct.

[Paperpusher]

Well, that was a good post.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Marx was English.

Marx was German, but received in England and buried there.

[SMARTY]

I mean he lived and worked in England.... making his work the work of an Englishman

[Vaduz]

Guess what caused the forming of the democrat party from day one.

[dfwgator]

Marx was German, but received in England and buried there.

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I wonder how many people even know that?

[joshua c]

bingo!

but i wouldnt limit it to fascism

it applies to all collectivist ideologies

collectivism cannot survive with competition

[Kazan]

What's absurd is that the ignorant or dishonest Zeepers are obsessed with Russia while the same globalists that setoff the war in Ukraine (for the reasons the author espoused) are behind the tyranny in the West.

Everything Zeepers claim are true of Russia is true of the NAT/EU/WEF globalist cabal.

Globalism is the gravest threat to the West, not any external country.

[MacNaughton]

Marx was English. He represents the typical English hatred for the wealthy.

Marx was born in Prussia and spent the first 20 years of his adulthood moving between Germany, Paris, and Belgium. His communist activities caused the governments of those countries to force him to migrate elsewhere. He ended up in London at age 31.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Leftists, marxists, whatever you want to call them. They marched through western institutions indoctrinating weak-minded people as they went. It was just like cancer destroying societies.

^ this

The lesson to be learned...when you create a great nation...don't let parasites in to devour it.

[dfwgator]

[Jan_Sobieski]

Richard Wurmbrand, a Romanian Evangelical Lutheran pastor and professor, wrote a book proving Karl Marx was not an actual atheist, but rather a Satanist who wanted to usher in Satanic socialism. Wurmbrand spent 13 years in a Soviet Romanian prison and was brutally beaten every day. His research is convincing…