Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud

Glenn Reynolds' latest piece, "Saving Democracy: What does Britain's collapse teach us?" notes how Western "democracies" continually ignore the wishes of their citizens to constrain mass immigration, and resort to many undemocratic means to shut down opposing political speech. 

    One would expect, in light of longstanding public opposition to mass immigration — particularly by low-skilled third worlders — that politicians would eschew such a policy. In fact, they’ve gone pedal to the metal on it. And they’ve basically acknowledged the depth of the opposition by going to such extraordinary lengths to suppress not only the opposition ,but even the expression of opposing views, or even of traditional patriotism.

    This is the very sort of thing that democratic institutions are supposed to prevent. But they’ve proven unequal to the task except — just barely — in the United States. But why?

    One answer is our ruling class monoculture. The political classes not only of the United States, but of pretty much every Western nation, have been all-in in favor of immigration and have basically colluded to ignore what the “white trash” — to use British Labour politician Dennis Jones’s term for the working-class girls who were victims of the Pakistani rape gangs — thinks about things. Having decided, conveniently, that anyone opposed to their agenda is racist and evil, they’ve found it easy to ignore the public’s reluctance to be robbed and raped.  

This mirrors Peter Turchin's findings that government policy always follows what the elites want, with the general public having no discernible impact on policy making. 

    So what to do? Reynolds is not sure but offers the following thoughts:

But even if there’s a win [against mass immigration] here [in the U.S.], and I think there will be, that’s not enough. There need to be lessons taught — generational ones — that will keep future ruling classes from trying this again any time soon. Those might range from firing squads to Truth And Reconciliation Commissions, but I think it will take more than ordinary electoral defeat, however crushing. I invite suggestions in the comments.   

I'm not hopeful. We should have had, at the least, Truth and Reconciliation Commissions to address the malfeasance surrounding the Covid pandemic but calls for any sort of accountability have faded to nothing. I doubt it will be any different when it comes to mass immigration and migrant crime.