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Is the West Dead Yet?
National Review Online ^ | September 8, 2015 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 09/08/2015 7:56:18 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Elites who are exempt by virtue of their money and influence from the consequences of living among millions of displaced Africans, Arabs, or Latin Americans berate ad nauseam their less-well-connected, supposedly illiberal fellow citizens.

But note that no elite Westerner wants to face the cause of the malady: namely, that the failure in the Third World to adopt Western ideas of consensual government, equality between the sexes, free-market capitalism, individual liberty, and transparent meritocracy logically leads to mayhem and poverty.

Westerners are afraid to explain why the non-West suffers and what it might do to end its own miseries. To do that would be imperialistic and neocolonial.

But it is worse than that: Western elites deny their own exceptionalism, and deny any reason for their own privilege other than the easy private guilt of citing the Holy Trinity of “race/class/gender.”

They dare not associate Islam with the self-professed Islamists of ISIS who wreck the world’s archaeological treasures and who behead, burn alive, drown, and dismember Christians and supposed heretics. Indeed, Western op-ed writers go so far as to offer heated advisories that we must not confuse the source of this nihilist furor with radical Islam

a New York Times columnist or an EU apparatchik who will never give up his own 1 percent lifestyle, but will castigate the values that ensure its continuation — on the understanding that such invective will assuage his guilt and never be taken too seriously. Surely 100 Hondurans will not be sleeping in the halls of the former’s Upper West Side co-op, and 500 Somalis will not camp out on the veranda of the latter’s Portofino estate. Could not Harvard and Stanford invite Central American illegal-alien youth to spend their summers in the shelter of their empty dorms and unused basketball arenas?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: europejihad; islamists; thewest; vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 09/08/2015 7:56:18 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

It’s in Critical Condition from a suicide attempt.


2 posted on 09/08/2015 7:56:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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I cannot believe we are trading our clean, formerly (relatively) safe societies our forefathers bled to build for the horror and filth of the third world. Just like that.

Find a globalist and string him up.

3 posted on 09/08/2015 8:00:08 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Hojczyk

Yes.


4 posted on 09/08/2015 8:02:42 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Hojczyk

Not yet.

The final fail-safe will be the nationalist backlash.

And a little hint to the leftists, those guys aren’t going to snap back using hashtags or cardboard signs.


5 posted on 09/08/2015 8:03:02 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: skeeter

It seems while we were out defending our country from without and trying to have a government that wouldn’t oppress us and take our freedoms, they were busy brainwashing our children that the widest possible diversity is the “ideal” utopia that would bring great things.

They didn’t even realize that the “great things” they were thinking about had nothing to do with “Allah”. Fools


6 posted on 09/08/2015 8:03:28 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Hojczyk

bfl


7 posted on 09/08/2015 8:05:06 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: dfwgator
Its leaders are still actively working to destroy it. James Burnham (maybe VDH's source for this riff) noted absence of sentiment of exceptionalism in "Suicide of the West." Also, the one world government movement dictates leveling, as it attempts to merge civilizations into a single people who share the same vision.

I've read the Good Book. Civilizations won't end the way their leaders plan.

8 posted on 09/08/2015 8:05:48 AM PDT by Cboldt
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9 posted on 09/08/2015 8:09:41 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Hojczyk

Dead as a doornail.

We’ve left our gates open, and turned into a lawless third-world banana republic. And our own elite culture has devolved into the worship of faggoty depravity.

Being stuck down in this day-to-day stew, many people don’t recognize the gravity of our decay, but if you take a historical birds-eye-view of where this country was, versus where it is now, it’s clear as a bell how grievously far America (and the West) has fallen.


10 posted on 09/08/2015 8:15:18 AM PDT by greene66
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To: Hojczyk
“Globalism” is just like other “ism's”, like socialism, communism, marxism, tribalism, feudalism, corporatism, etc.

The goal has been the same since the beginning of time: use force or coercion to gain power and control, at the expense of everyone else, for personal gain using whatever means one has at their disposal.

11 posted on 09/08/2015 8:15:56 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the age of Men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand! Men of the West!
12 posted on 09/08/2015 8:17:03 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Hojczyk

Western Civilization died about 15 years ago.

National Review died about 8 years ago.

VDH will go, then there will be none.


13 posted on 09/08/2015 8:18:39 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (RINOs EARNED TRUMP! I prefer Cruz, but someone has to kick their A$$!)
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To: VanDeKoik

Look at Greece. They’re not going to snap back using elections, either.


14 posted on 09/08/2015 8:19:03 AM PDT by grania
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It’s like Weimar Germany, ultimately there reaches a point where Democracy is pointless. Only a matter of which tyranny takes over, if it wasn’t Hitler, it would have been the Communists.


15 posted on 09/08/2015 8:21:41 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Hojczyk


16 posted on 09/08/2015 8:22:50 AM PDT by Iron Munro (CITY: A liberal run holding pen for useless headcount.)
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Yah, well, I’m thinkin’ that the globalist monopolist oligarch raw materials “Blood Diamond” Bilderberger IMF World Bank Wall St. derivatives cartels might share some of that guilt. Watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bh9d0nnxxU


17 posted on 09/08/2015 8:26:14 AM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
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It’s well on the way.


18 posted on 09/08/2015 8:31:28 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Hojczyk
One of VDH's best.

"If, God forbid, Putin moves into the Baltic states, if Iran launches a nuke into Israel, if North Korea shoots chemical shells into Seoul, if China absorbs Taiwan, if, in another 9/11, a dozen 757s take down the Sears Tower, if the interest rate on a soon-to-be-$20-trillion national debt hits 7 percent, if Social Security checks start to bounce, or if Wall Street trumps its 2008 implosion, then Miley Cyrus will go the way of Britney Spears, Barack Obama the way of Jimmy Carter, and Black Lives Matter the way of It’s a Black Thing, You Wouldn’t Understand.

Then the televised presences of Caitlin Jenner and the Kardashians would vanish as the decadent indulgences of a society that could no longer afford them. Bounty to boredom to decadence to panic to reawakening to ascendance has always been the cyclical way of the West. Its curse has been that the cycles of nihilism are as long as they are unnecessary."

19 posted on 09/08/2015 8:32:11 AM PDT by randita (...Our First Lady is a congenital liar - William Safire, 1996)
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HALTING THE IMMIGRATION INVASION OF THE WEST!
Pack ALL the muzzies among them back aboard a ship or train BACK to whereverthehell they came from along with a rifle and 500 rounds of ammo for each military age individual — male and female — and any older men who want to fight for their freedom.

During the trip back, REQUIRE them to watch a short video of the sort linked below (with subtitles in their language).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkyEtw8lBtI

Once offloaded, and under armed military control to prevent them from turning the weapons on their “liberators”, pass out the weapons and ammo with a map pointing out where current satellite images indicate the folks they’ve fled are located, pat them on the back and wish them luck!

BTW, why wouldn’t that work for the Mexican and Central American illegals here? Only difference is that the folks they need to wipe out are the crooked politicians and drug cartels now running their homelands?


20 posted on 09/08/2015 8:32:44 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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