Western Governments Have a Shelf Life

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Many Western governments will eventually collapse because they do not serve the interests of their peoples.  As a quick thought experiment, ask yourself what policy matters the governments of Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union consider most important.

Based on what I hear from the speeches of Western politicians and what I see from Western mainstream media publications, I would include these issues near the top of any list:

  • fighting “climate change”
  • encouraging the mass immigration of foreign nationals
  • replacing Western civilization with “multiculturalism”
  • branding national self-interest as “fascism”
  • demonizing “white supremacy” while giving preferential treatment to those with “diversity” of skin color
  • undermining nuclear families consisting of one mother, one father, and their children
  • treating abortion-on-demand as “healthcare” and a “sacred” right
  • treating assisted suicide as “healthcare” and a moral good
  • celebrating homosexuality
  • rejecting biological sex
  • embracing pseudoscientific “transgenderism” that promotes the sterilization and bodily mutilation of young children
  • central banking that manipulates the value of national currencies
  • offshoring industrial and manufacturing firms to third-world, often adversarial nations
  • disarming citizens
  • spying on citizens
  • criminalizing citizens’ public and private speech
  • censoring online information
  • mandating the dissemination of government propaganda
  • criminalizing citizens’ Christian beliefs
  • refusing to prosecute or imprison thieves, robbers, rapists, and murderers
  • nationalizing health care while mandating experimental “vaccinations”
  • instituting military conscription
  • instigating foreign wars without the public’s consent
  • promulgating endless bureaucratic rules and regulations without voters’ consent
  • taxing citizens and confiscating their property without their consent.
  • These twenty-five issues are by no means exhaustive, but they capture an accurate snapshot of Western governments’ priorities.  In every instance, however, these policies either directly attack Western citizens or make their lives more difficult.  They represent a kind of public policy grimoire meant to undermine Western civilization.

    Any reasonable person looking at the above list would agree that Western governments are sabotaging Western nations.  Western governments target Western citizens, Christianity, and the notion that Western civilization is worth preserving.  Concurrently, they encourage non-Western foreigners to move into Western nations without assimilating.  Non-Western foreigners are, therefore, replacing Western citizens.  Foreign languages and foreign cultures are replacing Western languages and Western cultures.  Foreign religions are replacing Christianity.  Foreign workers are replacing Western workers.  Foreign politicians are taking over Western governments.

    At the same time, Western governments encourage Western women to have abortions.  Western governments discourage the formation of strong, nuclear families.  Western governments promote homosexual and promiscuous lifestyles that limit childbirth and population growth.

    Western governments make it more expensive to live by collecting carbon taxes, mandating costly “green energies,” and enforcing ever-more-restrictive “climate change” regulations.  Western governments use central banks to print and spend money that deflates the value of Western currency.  Western governments flood their nations with foreigners who increase the demand for (and therefore the price of) housing, energy, and food.  Western governments eliminate blue-collar jobs by offshoring entire domestic industries and then force unemployed Western citizens to depend upon government welfare.

    Western governments endanger Western citizens by refusing to prosecute or imprison violent criminals who should not be on Western streets.  Western governments control medical care, and, therefore, government bureaucrats decide whether Western patients will live or die.  Western governments encourage impoverished, mentally ill, physically challenged, and old Western citizens to take advantage of government “healthcare” that helps them commit suicide.

    This arrangement — whereby Western governments protect foreigners while endangering Westerners — is inexcusable.  However, should any Western citizens notice how maliciously Western governments behave or how insane Western policies have become, Western governments jump into action to silence the witnesses and censor their dissent.  Western financial institutions de-bank Westerners with “politically incorrect” beliefs.

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    Western social media monitors flag unapproved speech and sic Western “thought police” on unapproved speakers.  Western officials denounce Western citizens who wish to protect their nations as “fascists,” “Nazis,” and “racists.”  Meanwhile, Western governments work with Western corporations to monitor everything that citizens say or do.  Then the same Western governments that spew endless propaganda defaming their own citizens as “fascists” and “racists” roll out military drafts requiring them to fight against “fascism” and “racism” on foreign battlefields.

    If Western governments can successfully send Western citizens off to fight and die in foreign wars, then foreign nationals will be the only people left in Western nations.  That’s when “Western” nations become foreign nations once and for all.

    Putting all of this together, the natural question is not whether Western governments will one day collapse.  The question is which government will fall first?  Either Western citizens will grow tired of being abused and systematically eliminated, or foreign nationals will take over the operations of Western governments.  One way or the other, then, Western governments cannot survive on their current path.

    Unlike some naysayers, I have a great deal of confidence that the citizens of many Western nations will succeed in taking their countries back from those governments that wish them harm.  Although late to the show, it is clear that many Western citizens are finally aware that they have been under attack.

    Right now we are in the “let’s see if elections can fix this” phase, wherein desperate Western citizens are hoping that a Marine Le Pen, Geert Wilders, Alice Weidel, Nigel Farage, or Donald Trump (all politicians whom Western governments and corporate news media demonize as “far-right”) will close national borders, restore Western sovereignty, protect Western civilization, and otherwise right the ship.

    In response, Western governments are doing everything they can to prevent these leaders from succeeding — including by defaming, persecuting, harassing, suing, and indicting them for make-believe “crimes.”  Should Western governments succeed in preventing Western citizens from electing leaders who will defend their nations from foreign conquest and self-sabotage, then Western citizens will move beyond the “elections fix” and begin to take their fight to the streets.

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    While Western governments are salivating over the prospect of sending their citizens off to die in an unnecessary war with the Russian Federation, many Western citizens have already concluded that there is no point in fighting authoritarianism in foreign lands when there is an onslaught of authoritarianism to fight at home.

    In my estimation, Western governments are running out of opportunities to change course before they guarantee the rise of citizen backlash, rebellion, and civil war.  Western governments have disarmed Western citizens in order to make them feel impotent and weak.

    However, moral certainty and righteous indignation have a way of arming the powerless.  When ten to twenty percent of a population decide that fighting tyranny is worth losing one’s life, it no longer matters who is armed or unarmed.

    Governments cannot survive just by spying on, persecuting, or killing citizens.  For governments to endure, they must maintain some modicum of legitimacy.  In this regard, Western citizens hold all the power.  The moment that they decide that their governments no longer represent their interests, Western citizens gain moral authority.

    The moment that citizens decide that their governments are a threat to their security and well-being, Western governments are stamped with a shelf life.  The question for Western governments pursuing anti-Western policies is simple: How much time do they have left?

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