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This is longer and less amusing than the typical Steyn article. But it's a wake-up call on the most serious issue confronting the west today. Namely, the fact that most of the civilized world as we know it--Europe, Japan, Russia--are going to die unless they act much more decisively than they are likely too within the next ten or fifteen years.

Steyn does his best not to preach to the choir but to try to wake up the sleep-walkers who are taking Western civilization to its death, while they worry about trivial issues instead of confronting the real problem.

I'm sending this one out to my list, not that most of them will probably make the necessary effort to understand it.

"Namely, the fact that most of the civilized world as we know it--Europe, Japan, Russia--are going to die unless they act much more decisively than they are likely too within the next ten or fifteen years."

They've got to act decisively to have children, that is what it is. That's really not such an awful thing. If you could just get most women to have three children you could turn this whole demographic suicide bomb around in a generation, I'd bet. Two generations at most. That's how long it's taken to get us into this mess.

For this we can truly thank the Feminazis, stiking lefty commies that they always were.

That’s what the war’s about: our lack of civilizational confidence. As a famous Arnold Toynbee quote puts it: “Civilizations die from suicide, not murder”—as can be seen throughout much of “the western world” right now. The progressive agenda —lavish social welfare, abortion, secularism, multiculturalism—is collectively the real suicide bomb.

Although this is another great Steyn article, I am disappointed he did not point out that this is not just a natural human progression, it is planned. The Left/Communists/Democrats are using the Islamist/Russian Mafia/Drug Dealers as their strong arm surrogates while they themselves do the slow behind the scenes psychopathology of dissecting and destroying our society.

The Left/Communists/Democrats and Islamists get the taxpayers to finance them through phony social programs and charities while the Mafia and Drug dealers are self-financing.

None of this is by accident and we had better wake to it rather than considering it a benign progression of human nature.

The major movements in American history and many of those in world history have found people divided largely into thirds. One-third is passionate about one side, one-third is passionate about the other side, and one-third is disaffected (moderate).

As Steyn points out, the population growth among the "red staters" in the US is a tremendous counterbalance to Leftist influence and distraction in this country. In a couple of generations, America may find itself in a quasi-revival -- especially if we are surrounded by a growing horde of Islamofascists that are preparing to conquer us.

Steyn is right on target in addressing the middle third. If we can sway them here and abroad, disaster may well be averted. Personally, I don't hold out much hope. They are the middle third precisely because their diet is of tepid water, neither hot nor cold. And they are lulled by the opiate of postmodern relativism. The multiculturalists and disaffected are wading in the Lethe and tasting Lotus leaves while laughing at the rest of the West shouting at them from the banks that there are crocodiles in the river.