by M Dowling, Independent Sentinel:
Mark Steyn has a long piece in The Quadrant titled “How the West Was Lost.” It’s behind a paywall, so I’ll post some of it here. It’s a must-read.
The biggest story of our time is that the entirety of the western world is sliding off the cliff — and most citizens of the west are not even aware of it, AND HAVE NO DESIRE TO BE MADE AWARE OF IT.
In that respect, I envy them. It is comforting to paddle one’s canoe and insist that the ever louder roaring sound from up ahead is the crowd at a Taylor Swift gig and not Niagara Falls. To be sure, permanence is the illusion of every age, but only in our time do we choose consciously not to believe our lyin’ eyes.
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Nevertheless, the west is now weak by every measure. First, and most obviously, it is demographically dying. Second, it is economically moribund. Third, it is militarily feckless. Fourth, it is culturally suicidal… A couple of decades back, I would have kept the list going for another half-dozen sobering bullet-points, but let’s just cut to the chase: We’re nuts, and we’re raising our kids to be even nuttier.
That last bit doesn’t always work, of course: on the Continent, young voters are some of the most enthusiastic supporters of Germany’s AfD, France’s National Rally and other ‘far right’ ‘neo-fascist’ parties…
But “democracy” no longer quite works as it’s meant to, does it? In Romania, the election got cancelled and the leading candidate arrested; in Canada, a globalist technocrat who’s never sat in Parliament and is entirely unknown in his native land got parachuted in from Klaus Schwab’s hollowed-out Alp.
And, in between, western European elections have dwindled down to a grimly reductive standard operating procedure: the “far right” might occasionally “win” – in the sense of being the largest party in the legislature – but the “centre-right” has agreed to save democracy by only working with far-left parties.
In Austria, the winning party has been excluded from a coalition of the losers. In the Netherlands, where the winning party has been admitted to the coalition, it is on terms that marginalise it and render its voters’ concerns irrelevant. This uniparty continuity dooms to failure not just this or that individual government but the system itself.
In Germany, after last month’s election, the victorious Friedrich Merz has yet to take office but he’s already being written off as a total wanker loser by his own voters:
More than half of Germans do not believe that Friedrich Merz will be a good chancellor, a new survey has said. According to the poll conducted by the Forsa polling institute for the RTL/n-tv Trendbarometer, 52% of respondents are sceptical of the CDU leader, compared to only 38% who think he will do a good job…
Voters who did give their support to the centre-right party did so thinking that Merz would deliver on his promises to take a tough course on migration and revive Germany’s faltering industrial base while getting rid of radical climate policies.
So far, however, he has made a U-turn on his policies—even before becoming chancellor—in order to accommodate the Social Democrats. On migration, for example, he has backtracked on his vow to close Germany’s borders to illegal and undocumented migrants, and on the budget, he is willing to indebt the country instead of pursuing fiscally conservative politics.
Yeah, well, that’s your fault, Krauts. If you persist in voting for a “centre-right” party that pledges only to work with parties to its left – including its far left – all you’re doing is volunteering to be the first to get screwed over on the morning after the election.
In the United Kingdom, if one were to dignify far more than it deserves Nigel Farage’s conduct this last week in seeking to get his most effective MP jailed as a violent sex predator (a charge not even the useless Brit media take seriously, and which even Nigel has given up talking about), it is because he – polling in roughly the same territory as AfD and National Rally – does not want to see Reform UK fall prey to a local variant of the Continental exclusion policy: oh, look – at the 2029 election there is no majority and the Tories pledge they’re only going to work with respectable moderate mainstream parties such as the Greens and Sinn Féin.
When Farage says Rupert Lowe has been captured by the “online far right”, he’s saying that Reform’s priority should continue to be aging lounge-bar whingers who, above all else, see themselves as the voice of Middle England and have no desire to remake themselves as firebrand revolutionaries.
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