[neverdem]

It is dying, and because of the very social liberalism that the nitwit Brooks extols.

Please show me some examples.

[neverdem]

ping

[jonascord]

Over the last few decades, American liberals have lauded the German model or the Swedish model or the European model. But these models are not flexible enough for the modern world. They encourage people to cling fiercely to entitlements their nation cannot afford. And far from breeding a confident, progressive outlook, they breed a reactionary fear of the future that comes in left- and right-wing varieties - a defensiveness, a tendency to lash out ferociously at anybody who proposes fundamental reform or at any group, like immigrants, that alters the fabric of life.

From further on in the article.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Most European countries (the "old" ones) do not produce enough children to even maintain their populations. In fact, immigrants into these areas are changing the culture rather dramatically - that and the emmigration by natives to such places as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and yes, the U.S.