When so many polls suggest that restricting mass immigration would be to politicians’ electoral advantage, voters in the West are continually stymied by why the immoderate flow of foreigners into their countries continues apace. Online comments abound with theories.
WHEN the scale and horror of the October 7 attack on Israel by the Islamist terrorist group Hamas became apparent, I knew that it ought to be a line-in-the-sand moment for the western Left. Scales should have fallen from eyes, as they did for thousands of British communists and their fellow travellers after the Soviet Union’s invasion of Hungary in 1956. I also knew that this would not happen, and that an uneasy silence and a bit of special pleading would be the order of the day.
ALL businesses will soon be required to follow the UN’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards. These are intended to measure the contribution of businesses to environmental and social issues, as well as whether their operations fulfil the requirement of equality for all minority groups, real or imaginary.
The general message from speakers was that Western countries—through a mix of mass migration, declining birthrates, and institutions that fail to pass along traditional political and religious values—will be reduced, at best, to economic zones rather than the distinct national polities they once were.
The left was able for decades to get through the courts, including the Supreme Court, what it couldn’t get through Congress. Today, however, liberals are trying to subvert the legitimacy of the Supreme Court because it contains a majority of justices committed to the Constitution and the rule of law
Requirements for renewable energy mean that Americans’ oil and gas jobs are being sacrificed to Chinese workers who make wind turbines and solar panels, even though wind and solar power produce less than 6% of U.S. primary domestic energy consumption.
… the House will soon vote on HR 2, the Secure the Border Act, a bill that would successfully end a border crisis that is built on asylum fraud, child exploitation, and corruption.
THOSE plotting the West’s collapse hold a trump card: the Great Replacement. To give the Devil his due, they play it well. Porous borders, hate-speech laws and the cynical manipulation of Anglosphere kindness create a hostile environment for the diversity heretic.
Over the weekend, media personality Oli London retweeted a post of Mulvaney “getting glam” with Maybelline, which has apparently joined the ranks of companies like Nike who think the best way to sell products to women is by mocking them. But if Bud Light’s $6 billion nosedive is any indication, the damages will be much more than cosmetic.
We are in the grip of an ideology that disowns our genius, denounces our success, disdains merit.
Adrian Wooldridge, who has written a book on the rise of meritocracy, frames this in a recent article in the Spectator. The left, he says, is “creating a new social order based on virtue, rather than ability.”
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