Not really a surprise to those of us that have our eyes open. But this is a good article from a few months ago, stating the why and how of the fall of Europe. Trump stopped us from American Seppuku. But the left is fighting tooth and nail to ensure the blade is pushed through.

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Europe is plagued by a number of existential crises.

Yet they are all self-inflicted — and by a dominant, therapeutic culture that embraced utopian but lethal bromides.

These suicidal wounds are now nearing the end-stage.

Indeed, they are destroying the very civilization that was soon envisioned to be heaven on earth.

The global-warming hysterics could not just entertain gradual transformations away from dependencies on traditional fuels and power generation.

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The green socialist elite cared little that shutdowns of nuclear, coal, natural gas and oil power generation would cripple industry, reduce living standards and impoverish Europe.

Germany, once the economic powerhouse of Europe, became a shell of its former self.

Sound familiar? They copied Venezuela without having a dictator.

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Second, for the last half-century, affluent Westerners embraced the idea that there were no normative lifestyles.

Often, they claimed nuclear families with two to three children were parochial and passé.

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Children supposedly inhibited the lifestyles and aspirations of women.

Larger families, we were told, unfairly burdened upscale professionals with unneeded costs and offered biased and injurious models to gays, transgender people and single, childless men and women.

The result is that the fertility rate plummeted in the West, particularly in Europe (1.4) and the United States (1.6), to unsustainable levels.

Academia, the media, government, and foundations promoted these ideas of “empowerment” — despite the historical evidence that societies that cannot reproduce themselves age, ossify and finally implode.

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The third horseman of the Western apocalypse was unrestricted and illegal immigration.

Again, the elites discarded a century of research and common sense that immigration into modern Western societies is only beneficial if it is legal, measured, diverse, meritocratic and met with robust efforts of the host to integrate, acculturate and assimilate foreigners.

The arrogant West scoffed at all that. Instead, it destroyed borders.

It welcomed in millions of impoverished and unaudited illegal aliens, many of them with little desire or ability to adopt the values of their hosts.

What followed were unsustainable social welfare entitlements, rising crime, social chaos and growing internal strife.

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The last horseman was a new tribalism, euphemistically dubbed diversity/equity/inclusion.

An elite Western class envisioned an entire set of reparatory actions for growing nonwhite populations to atone for purported prior, and sometimes ancient, sins of slavery, racism, colonialism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia.

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Self-perpetuating myths of everlasting victimhood are necessary to ensure permanent special preferences.

The Western idea of the Enlightenment, that we are individuals, not tribes and collectives, free to question the world about us, is shattered.

Instead, we descend into precivilizational tribalism, predicated on our superficial appearances.

[b]There is some hope only because the four horsemen of our apocalypse were welcomed into the West by a minority of naive, secular and privileged Westerners.

My question to the libs that likely won't answer here, why do you want to be like Europe?