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The West Eats Itself
American Thinker ^ | 5 May, 2025 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 05/05/2025 3:56:17 AM PDT by 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
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To: RckyRaCoCo

It has [letting the parasites devour it] has already happened to the United States of America. If you don’t believe it look to the right and left of you. President Trump is trying to reverse it. But he is being fought every inch of the way by the products of the Educational System. In the end they will prevail. Because there are too many of them. They are ingrained too deep. And he has only a finite amount of time to work with and it is running out. When he is gone there will be no one to replace him.


21 posted on 05/05/2025 10:12:41 AM PDT by sport
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Saving


22 posted on 05/05/2025 10:16:06 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: sport

Completely agree, it is divine intervention or bust at this point. Unfortunately, with the history of empires that are “destroyed from within”, my bet is on bust.


23 posted on 05/05/2025 10:19:00 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: Vaduz

Socialism?


24 posted on 05/05/2025 8:10:58 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

And Marxism and communism Germany as the poster country for them even the Fabian Society tagged along after the democrat party was formed.


25 posted on 05/06/2025 6:04:47 AM PDT by Vaduz
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