Posted on 02/06/2006 5:09:31 AM PST by Dark Skies
Thanks for the post
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Europeans will wake up sooner or later on the Muslim question. It's just whether they will wake up in time or not.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Poles came to save Western Europe again, as they did in 1683 at Vienna.
Long-term geopolitical developments are not cyclical or even linear, but "quantized"-- subject to abrupt discontinuities, invariably unforeseen, that nonetheless "change everything" to provide radically different contexts for generations. Think 1789, 1914... those worlds of the late 18th and early 20th Centuries perished so abruptly, so totally, that anyone passing such historical divides became an instant socio-cultural fossil.
And so today... with the caveat, that Europe's looming demographic catastrophe --a population drop due to rival that of the Great Plagues-- is going to manifest itself in many a strange way. For starters: By 2030, there will be no "youth culture"; the excresences of Boomerdom from about 1960 through 2010 will be a memory, a "what were they thinking?" theme when adult reality re-asserts itself. Second, lacking human cohorts, there will be extraordinary incentive to substitute "artificial", robotic means for low-end functions all through society. Finally, by this mid-Twenty First Century, it is all but certain that mankind will have moved substantial numbers off the planet, especially as it's borne in that our current Interglacial is 3,000 years past-due to end. ("Global warming" is a carnard, an 800-year cyclical phenomenon driven by annular rings of dust within the inner Solar System.)
What this will do to Muslim crypto-fascism, assuming that even Old Europe will snap to attentiveness in time, is render every rug merchant and camel driver what they have always been-- benighted, ignorant, stupid in the Darwinian sense that, as a culture, they are so purposefully uncompetitive as to foster their extinction.
When the multi-culti, doofus-femmer, paleo-Leftist bubble bursts, the ones remaining will be those disgusted by it from Day One. We count ourselves as such. Mounting our Rainbow Bridge, we seek new paths towards Home.
Excellent post!
He really lays it out clearly here...
"The tide may be turning as far as EuroPeon attitudes toward the enemys withing the gates."
I certainly hope so. But given Eurpoean attitudes towards "the swarthy classes", it also make me realize that ultimately - in the cold light of history years from now - this will probably all go down as a racial thing.
And in fact... maybe it is.
Maybe this whole "Islam" thing is just eyewash. It is, as its probably always been - a matter of the have-nots against he haves.
Let me know if you want in or out.
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The tide has begun to turn in Europe. But the road to common sense will be a slow travel.
Europe's movement away from the left will be a gradual one.
I doubt it. The demographics driving the politics behind the welfare state will make it increasingly impossible to spend tax money on anything other than pensions and health care. I don't think we entirely understand in this country how the political playing field has been narrowed by the arithmetic of European politics.
But now it's possible that the Muslims have failed to grasp what can happen if you bite the hand that keeps feeding you. Even the wimpiest dog owner you can imagine will eventually get tired of pulling back a bloody hand and reach a point where the dog is taken in to the vet to get put down, if the owner doesn't drag it out back and shoot it him/herself. Not a surprise that these people don't realize that, considering they come from a "culture" that reached it's high water mark in the 7th century and has steadily regressed in the centuries since.
Don't you love it when that happens? My ability to put thoughts into effective words is sorely lacking, I am so glad that there are excellent writers with similar thoughts.
Conservatives are now firmly in power in Australia, Canada, Germany, and the United States.
Also, Denmark unseated the Socialdemokraterne being replaced with a coalition of 3 very conservative parties that have reformed their immigration politics, so that it now takes 7 years instead of 4 years!
We have already seen some of this revisionism in the refusal of French enlightened opinion to cede that the problems in their cites had any origins in Islam at all. The power of denial has been sustaining this cultural/political movement for several decades and tends to be pretty stubborn - it survived in the 1930's until the Nazis were physically, literally at the door.
I do not wish to seem overly pessimistic, but although this incident serves as a wake-up call I do not get the sense that the Europeans are sufficiently alarmed to actually do very much except attempt to close the door to a wolf who is already in the parlor.
I agree. I think the press and the people were caught off guard and responded before their more PC masters could get them under control. Personally, I think the result of this in Europe is ultimately going to be more "hate speech" legislation that effectively curtails any criticism or even speech about Muslims, no matter what they do to the rest of the population.
That said, I don't think we're really confronting it in the US, either. The American press has been bending over backwards not to do anything that might be perceived as offensive to Muslims, and I think you're soon going to see calls for more "sensitivity," "cultural awareness," etc. that effectively make Muslims a protected group. Mark my words.
If Europe & Canada are able to move rightward, I see the Dumbocrats as truly extinct. *thumbs up*
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