Elitists Promote Self Destructive Policies

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Elitists -- of a leftist stripe -- in Europe and the U.S. demean Western values and virtues; this is a career choice for many of them, particularly since the 1960s. To varying degrees, Western elitists loathe and act to subvert the civilization that produced them, nurtured and gave them their success and standing. There’s a sickness to this, akin to destroying one’s home (all the while rationalizing the destruction as improvements).
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In this latest crisis of the West, Frau Merkel insists that millions of Muslims added to the millions already calling Europe home pose no threat to the civilization there. Never mind the plentitude of experience with Muslims in Europe over two generations, chiefly. Never mind that simple observation of the Muslim faith in practice in other lands among alien cultures leads to a simple conclusion: Western Civilization and Islam are irreconcilable. Both can inhabit the same planet, but their precincts must be distinct. Given the historic and present aggressiveness of the latter, the former would do well to be constantly vigilant. On second thought, nay. Western Civilization needs a rebirth, a revitalization of appreciation, and an assertive defense in the teeth of Mohammedan offensives.
Islam is proving to be a recidivist faith; you can take the religion out of the Dark Ages, but not the Dark Ages out of the religion, goes the trope. Islam remains what it has been from the outset: a creed of blood and conquest.
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Merkel’s belief that Muslims can be situated in Western Europe without injury (dare say, fatality) to the peoples and cultures whose ancestries there are deep in time, is plain loony. The religion of bloody conquest will keep doing what it was built to do by Mohammed centuries before. It’s practically an organism driven by instinct, not brains. Future historians will have a field day making sense of elitist worldviews that permitted the surrender of their territories to aliens practicing a hostile faith.
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How many aging Germans, French, Brits, Italians, Spaniards, et al, will fight to the death under E.U. banners?
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About a century ago, in a mere 52 months, Europe’s empires reduced themselves from the zenith of their global powers through ruinous war; through murder-suicide. World War I precipitated the decline of Europe. Subsequent revolutions and wars (and the isms that sparked them) furthered the decline.
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Lest we be accused of only pointing fingers at Western Europeans, the sickness that infects their elites, infects ours.
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As with European leftism, the American version has long ranged beyond economics to attack the moral, religious, and cultural underpinnings of society. Marriage and family have been targets for decades. Homosexual unions -- and whatever variants follow -- are merely extensions of the attack.
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President Obama -- no believer in American exceptionalism, as his record indicates -- has begun importing Muslim refugees. Red state Idaho is the preferred destination currently.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/11/the_full_flowering_of_western_decadence.html

November 5, 2015
The Full Flowering of Western Decadence
By J. Robert Smith