The Slow Collapse Of Civilization

 Some headlines that caught my eye this morning:

• "Woke Squad member Ayanna Pressley claims Walgreens is RACIST for closing stores in crime-ridden areas because it is a 'disruptive, life-threatening act of racial and economic discrimination'."
• "House PASSES bill to deport illegal migrants arrested for driving drunk despite opposition from 150 Democrats."
• "HUNDREDS of protesters block five major roadways in Washington DC during rush hour over US support for Israel: Federal employees set to go on 'one day hunger strike' in support of Gaza."
• "Vandals graffiti 27 floors of $1billion LA skyscraper that has been abandoned since 2019 after Chinese developers pulled the plug."
• "Denny's closes Oakland restaurant that's been open for 54 YEARS because California city is now so dangerous, weeks after In-N-Out shuttered nearby location over soaring crime."

These are signs of civilization slipping away and savagery gaining sway. It's not like we haven't seen this before: in the wake of race riots and skyrocketing crime rates in the 1960s and '70s we saw whole areas of major cities that looked bombed out, with both businesses and residents fleeing. And then we had a reprieve. But we are sliding back. In fact, we are past sliding back and seeing new lows. Because as bad as things were in the '60s and '70s, cities like Portland and Seattle were mostly untouched, and the downtown of San Francisco was at least habitable. If you subscribe to the broken windows theory of crime and law enforcement, the out-of-control shop lifting, burglary, and drug use we see today will translate into more murders, rapes and assaults tomorrow.  

    The faux concern over Gaza is bothersome. It's not so much because the protestors are critical of Israel which is, at best, a frenemy of the United States and should be defunded; but because the protestors aren't as much concerned about Gaza and Palestinians but that they see the protests as yet another front in attacking white people and Western Civilization. For all that these protestors claim to be supporting the Palestinians in their fight against the mass immigration of Jews over the past century, they want to do to white Americans what they condemn Israel for doing to the Palestinians. 

    The migrant invasion into the U.S. has simply compounded the problem of civilizational decline. As John Wilder recently explained in his article, "A Tale Of Two Economies?":

    The reality is that [the American] dream is slipping away.  I think kids are losing ground every year.  Houses are more expensive, cars are more expensive to own and insure, and marriage costs more.  The situation is horrible compared to the early 1970s, when a manufacturing job could support a Norman Rockwell family.  Pay has stayed down due to the massive influx of cheap immigrant labor, whether that immigrant labor is here or in Vietnam.

    Free trade means that we can be miserable on a race to the bottom for labor costs. ...

A big part of the reason for the high housing and other costs of living--particularly in larger communities--is because of mass immigration. It is simple supply and demand, and the supply of housing is not keeping up with the demand. 

    It is also laughable that Congress has to pass yet another law to kick out illegal aliens which are already subject to expulsion, which law (assuming the bill becomes law) will probably also be ignored by federal officials or undermined by the courts. If federal agencies put in even a tenth of the effort to track down and expel illegal aliens as they did J6 protestors, we would be rid of illegal aliens.