Many Western Governments Won't Survive

Many Western Governments Won't Survive

Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker,

Western governments have put themselves in mortal danger.

They are actively doing things that are destroying their countries: (1) replacing their native citizens with unassimilable foreigners; (2) centralizing government power in unelected and unaccountable bureaucracies; (3) censoring and criminalizing public dissent; (4) offshoring industrial and manufacturing jobs; (5) exacerbating energy costs and general inflation by demonizing hydrocarbons and pushing "global warming" delusions; (6) increasing taxes, government spending, and public welfare in unsustainable ways; (7) demolishing their nations' historical identities, traditions, beliefs, and common cultures; (8) providing foreigners with "free" homes, food, and educations, while accusing native citizens of being "racists," "xenophobes," and "white supremacists"; (9) discouraging healthy marriages and stable families; and (10) indoctrinating the youngest generations to believe that war, "climate change," overpopulation, and economic collapse will prevent them from ever having happy, hopeful, purposeful futures.

Those are just ten ways that Western governments are hurting their citizens. There are many more. But a reasonable person should be able to read the above paragraph and understand that nations cannot survive under such a destructive barrage of harmful policies.

Western governments are waging wars against their own nations. The progress of these wars may look a little different in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, Australia, Canada, and the United States, but what happens in one country soon enough spreads to all the rest. It is as if Western leaders got together many years ago and agreed that their countries would drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid and take long dirt naps.

Perhaps they formed this suicide pact during an "elite" gathering of the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization, or the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Perhaps they chanted, "Build back better," in unison while voting to euthanize the West.

Adversarial political parties ostensibly compete for control of Western governments, but, in reality, the party system is kabuki theater wherein the same special interests own the politicians on both sides of the aisle. Until so-called "populist" parties emerged in the West, voters were given merely the illusion of choice.

After all, the Conservative Party held power in the United Kingdom for fourteen years, and despite repeated promises to do so, its leaders failed to secure Britain's borders from foreign invasion or to extract the kingdom from regulatory enslavement to the European Union.

In the United States, President George W. Bush calls President Bill Clinton his "brother" and Hillary Clinton his "sister" and once described Michelle Obama as his "best friend." Establishment Republicans such as lame-duck senators Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, and Thom Tillis spend more time attacking President Trump and the 95% of Republican voters who support his MAGA policies than they do warning Americans about the growing number of communists in the Democrat Party.

Western nations have political Establishments that pretend to fight in front of the public but largely conspire behind closed doors and agree about most everything. We know this to be true because we have witnessed how these political Establishments work together to prevent "outsider" political candidates from reaching higher office or holding power.

In Europe, the political Establishment enjoy enforcing so-called "cordons sanitaire," or "firewalls" meant to hinder the leaders of "unacceptable" political movements from obtaining power. In the Netherlands, the political Establishment have blocked Geert Wilders from becoming prime minister because of his opposition to mass immigration, Islamic supremacy, and the European Union and despite the fact that the party he leads has significant public support. In France, the political Establishment have done the same thing to Jean-Marie Le Pen, his daughter Marine, and their National Rally because of the party's pro-national-sovereignty and anti-immigration policies. In the United Kingdom, the political Establishment have blocked Brexit stalwart and Reform UK chief Nigel Farage from leadership roles in parliament. In Germany, the political Establishment have attempted to delegitimize the popular anti-immigration party, Alternative for Deutschland, by defaming its members as "domestic terrorists," "Russian agents," and anti-constitutional "national security threats."

In the United States, Establishment Democrats and Republicans did everything they could to prevent President Trump's election and then to remove him from office after he soundly defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016. The Republican Party's 2012 presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, actively campaigned against Trump in 2016. So-called "conservative" political pundits, such as Bill Kristol and George Will, repudiated Republican voters and supported Hillary Clinton's candidacy. Even though Republicans controlled Congress, former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan advanced the Clinton-Obama-Intelligence-Community operation to frame President Trump as a Russian spy. Senator Romney twice voted to remove Trump from office. Democrat prosecutors spent years trying to imprison Trump for life, and Establishment Republicans worked desperately to keep Trump from becoming the party's presidential nominee once again in 2024. America's political Establishment tried to remove Trump from ballots, bully him with investigations, and paint him as a "dictator" in an incitement campaign that encouraged would-be assassins to seek his death.

What have these widespread Establishment efforts across the West to undermine elections and silence public dissent accomplished? Western institutions - government agencies, universities, news media, banks, corporations, and NGOs - have never been more distrusted. That makes sense. Western institutions are hostile to Western citizens.

While ordinary Westerners are proud of their countries, Western institutions tell them that they should be ashamed of their ancestors and their nations' histories. While ordinary Westerners wish to work, buy homes, and have families, Western institutions support mass immigration policies that replace Western workers, increase demand on housing, and make it much more difficult for Westerners to support and protect their families. When Western citizens object to the political Establishments' open borders, Western news media demonize them as "racists" and "white supremacists." When Western citizens organize around their national flags and march peacefully down city streets, the political Establishment demonize them as "fascists," "right-wingers," and "Nazis." When Western citizens try to protect themselves from violent foreign nationals, Western law enforcement agencies condemn the Westerners and defend the violent foreigners.

The West's political Establishments would rather allow foreigners to burn down churches, town halls, stores, schools, and private homes than take action to protect Western citizens from the deadly consequences of Establishment policies. The U.K. Establishment allowed Islamic supremacists to rape tens of thousands of British girls without any consequence. The French Establishment allowed Islamic supremacists to hunt police officers, loot stores, set buildings and vehicles ablaze, and terrorize French citizens without any consequence.

In Germany, 87% of suspects with open arrest warrants are foreigners. Despite all evidence to the contrary, London's police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, says that it is critical to replace merit-based hiring with preferential treatment for black and Muslim applicants (and calls criticism of his "diversity" policies "toxic"). Western NGOs preposterously claim that capitalism and "climate change" should be blamed for Islam's penchant for sex slavery and child marriages. In the U.K., 80% of jobs go to foreign immigrants. In the U.S., Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin promises to politically prosecute President Trump's supporters in order to "deter" them from opposing Establishment policies.

Even as Western governments attack Western citizens, however, they still expect those citizens to sacrifice their lives in a looming global war. The head of the British Army, General Sir Roland Walker, recently told soldiers: "Very soon, the political leaders of this country will start to have a frank conversation with the citizens of this country about just what is going on." At that time, citizens "have got to consent to sacrifices to prioritize defense and security."

Nearly half of military-aged Brits say there are "no circumstance" in which they would defend the United Kingdom. That's no surprise. Why would Western citizens defend governments that abuse them? If the West already "belongs" to foreigners, what else is there to defend?

Western governments' cascading failures are leading to their demise. Citizens owe them nothing.

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Tyler Durden
Sat, 10/24/2026 - 20:30