Posted on 07/20/2025 5:26:12 AM PDT by Rummyfan
A generation ago, before my life and my health were consumed by litigation without end, I wrote two international bestsellers - one was principally on demography, and the other on debt. Neither is what publishers back then would have called a "sexy" subject, so I am grateful that large numbers of readers bought both books. But credit where it's due: I did happen to pick the two topics that, if you reside almost anywhere in the western world, are determining your future right now. The demographic death-spiral is more immediately relevant to Europe, and the debt abyss to America, but there is plenty of overlap. One notices too that each existential threat is largely immune to politics: whoever governs France or Germany, the migrants continue to pour across the border; whoever rules in Washington, the debt accelerates up and out the top right-hand corner of the graph. The federal debt is now up over $37 trillion and cruising on to forty tril. It took until 1986 - or the first two centuries of the republic - to ramp up an initial two trillion; now we add that in a typical year.
There are subtle differences in the reactions each book received: my demographic thesis - that the peoples of England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden et al were going out of business - prompted, for a while, a ton of A-list princes, presidents and prime ministers to put me on speed-dial and call me in for a little light doomsday chit-chat. "This is a paradigm shift, right?" said Dick Cheney to me in his butch waterboarding voice. And he was right: it is. But none of the A-listers did anything about it and the demographic transformation of the western world continued...
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
“When demographic conquest and fiscal insolvency meet and merge in the migrant hotels of western government, what will be left holding up the joint?”
...and yet SOME HERE claim that Russia is the big threat to Europe. Very strange.
Bkmk
As Western Civilization is weakened, outside threats become more significant.
China bought our treasuries, & promptly went into debt with it’s Belt & Road initiative. So what country on this planet is financially well? I personally expect there will be a biblical Debt Jubilee, where all is forgiven & we start all over.
But the people who got us INTO the mess should not be forgiven, & every politician responsible should end up strung up by his/her thumbs, as a warning to future politicians.
As for the migrants? They might be encouraged to go home when the teat they’ve been sucking is pulled away.
“As Western Civilization is weakened, outside threats become more significant.”
True, but when you INVITE a civilization-killing culture into your country, you don’t to even wait for foreigners to destroy you.
Crises are dangerously opportunities.
Let us procreate and stay solvent. Thus, dominion.
More crudely,
“F*** for the future!”
They’ll need to be forced to!
“As Western Civilization is weakened, outside threats become more significant.”
That passive way of stating the problem doesn’t identify the culprit.
Better way to say that is...
“As WE ourselves destroy western civ outside forces naturally take advantage of it.
You don't?
Even when they have said so repeatedly for decades? How very strange.
“Even when they have said so repeatedly for decades?”
Link please.
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