A few harsh realities to consider:

1) The hard-left has infiltrated all Western institutions and actively seeks to undermine and subvert all Western nations - regardless of which particular puppet politician is in power.

2) Most countries within Western Europe will see their native young become a minority well before 2050.

3) Western countries currently operate on the principle that foreign people and foreign cultures are intrinsically good, whilst European culture and people are irredeemably evil.

4) This sets up the neo-Marxist agenda of the oppressed and the oppressor which copies the early 20th century revolutionary ideology of Marxist-Leninism where the working class was designated as the oppressed, and the bourgeoisie the oppressor.

5) The result of this was the murder of 100 million people deemed the "oppressor" in Communist Russia and Communist China.

6) Islam is currently designated the "oppressed" by all Western institutions, regardless of the fact that Islam is a supremacist ideology with a 1,400-year history of imperial expansion and warfare. Europeans are designated the "oppressor" even as they yield to every edict of "diversity" ladled upon them.

7) Islam will politically control much of Western Europe before 2050 as a result of rapidly declining native demographics, coupled with rapidly expanding Islamic demographics and single-minded bloc voting for Islamic political parties.

8) Few politicians or journalists (none in England...) will talk about this, let alone state what should be done to halt the overthrow of Western Europe. People who do talk about it are liable to be arrested for Hate Crime and imprisoned.

9) This represents an existential crisis which threatens our very survival as a people, a culture, and an entire continent. We are a dwindling demographic deemed the oppressor by our own Traitor Class, even as a growing demographic with a supremacist belief system is forced upon us by the Traitor Class - which maintains our potential future masters are the oppressed. The history of Lenin, Stalin and Mao with regard to the oppressed and the oppressor does not bode well for the European people.

10) We have little time left, but most people cling to the naïve belief that we can somehow vote our way out of this terrible situation. I don't entirely discount this possibility, but I do believe that should the AfD in Germany or Marine Le Pen in France threaten to win an election in a landslide, they would never be allowed to take power. The EU criminals in the Commission - and they really are criminals - have already intimated they will ban "far-right" parties capable of winning elections - and recently did just that in Romania.

All in all then, not good, as Jerry Seinfeld might say. I'm sorry if people find this depressing, but I do think it is a matter of crucial importance that our situation be properly understood. After all, if we don't realise how bad things are, we will be unable to plan any possible salvation.

In the US, the Republicans try very hard to play nice, and follow the rules. We don’t take extreme steps. We don’t push the boundaries. Because, you know, the GOP may have power now (do we?) but if the Democrats ever get back into power, they will suddenly do what we just did! Those Democrats will suddenly start to take extreme steps! They will push the boundaries! The Democrats will feel emboldened to do these terrible things if the Republicans do these things, which is why the Republicans must continue to play nice and follow the rules.

It seems lost on the Republican establishment that the Democrats stopped playing nice about 50 or 60 years ago (at least). They always push the boundaries. They never follow the rules. Heck, Joe Biden openly ignored the Supreme Court and barely anyone in the media even commented on it.

Western Civilization is crumbling everywhere. At some point, we have to fight and we have to prepared for things to get messy. We didn’t start this struggle, but we will have to engage at some point.

Mark Steyn exposed this very clearly nine years ago in "America, Alone." He posited that Europe was doomed because of the Islamist takeover and the way below replacement fertility rate of native Western Europeans. He believed that America would not follow this same trajectory, but I think that's been disproven since he wrote the book.

From the Inside Flap of the book:

It s the end of the world as we know it. Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are.
And liberals will still tell you that "diversity is our strength" while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesn t violate the "separation of church and state," and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy.
If you think this can t happen, you haven t been paying attention, as the hilarious, provocative, and brilliant Mark Steyn the most popular conservative columnist in the English-speaking world shows to devastating effect in this, his first and eagerly awaited new book on American and global politics.
The future, as Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. And the Islamists are both, while the West wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and self-indulgence, and a childlessness that consigns it to oblivion is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization.
Europe, laments Steyn, is almost certainly a goner. The future, if the West has one, belongs to America alone with maybe its cousins in brave Australia. But America can survive, prosper, and defend its freedom only if it continues to believe in itself, in the sturdier virtues of self-reliance (not government), in the centrality of family, and in the conviction that our country really is the world s last best hope.
Steyn argues that, contra the liberal cultural relativists, America should proclaim the obvious: we do have a better government, religion, and culture than our enemies, and we should spread America s influence around the world for our own sake as well as theirs.

"Replacement Fertility" is 2.1 live births per woman (the 0.1 accounts for infant and child mortality). Look where Europe is today and the trajectory during the years 2011 to 2021. So Europe is lost due to few births, the takeover of the islamists, and national governments clearly on board with the end of Europe. Most of that is the result of two horrific World Wars that destroyed Europe and left a hedonistic, nihilistic population behind.

The end paragraph on the inside flap almost foretold the rise of President Trump: The future, if the West has one, belongs to America alone with maybe its cousins in brave Australia. But America can survive, prosper, and defend its freedom only if it continues to believe in itself, in the sturdier virtues of self-reliance (not government), in the centrality of family, and in the conviction that our country really is the world s last best hope.

But Mr. Steyn didn't see how quickly Australia would go full totalitarian during COVID.

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