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“Capitalism is not a profit system, it is a profit and loss system, and the losses are more important than the profits.” —Milton Friedman But the US education system runs on the exact opposite principle. No failure allowed. Instead of closing or losing funding, failing schools get more taxpayer money, more administrators, and more programs. And bad teachers rarely face real consequences thanks to tenure and union protection. The “customers” (parents and kids) have almost no exit. Real per-pupil spending has nearly tripled since 1970 after inflation. NAEP scores flat or eroding in core skills for decades. PISA rankings middling at best, with math especially weak. Thomas Sowell diagnosed this in Inside American Education, asserting that the system is morally and intellectually bankrupt. It has turned into a propaganda operation more than an educator primarily pushing ideology, feelings, and self-esteem over knowledge and competence. With endless public money and zero market test, there is nothing forcing correction. Unions buy political protection so the failure machine keeps running. Friedman and Sowell both identified the same disease and the same cure, namely real competition and choice. Vouchers or education savings accounts let parents take the money and flee failure. Good schools grow, while bad ones finally face losses and must improve or die. Without the discipline of losses, mediocrity is subsidized forever. And the kids, especially in the worst districts, pay the permanent price. But that’s just the system working exactly as designed.

We exist and work so leftists can rule over us. Our labor and taxes get extracted to build and sustain political clients who deliver power to the left at home and extend its reach abroad. Democrats expanded welfare after the War on Poverty to turn black Americans into a captured voting bloc. The new programs discouraged marriage and work. The rate of out-of-wedlock births rose from 24% in 1965 to above 70%. Black support for Democrats locked in at 90% or higher and has stayed there. The identical approach runs with illegal immigrants now. Policies drive large inflows. Taxpayer money then covers housing, healthcare, food, and schooling in Democrat areas. Fiscal estimates place the net annual cost near 150 billion dollars. Census counting of non-citizens shifts House seats and electoral votes toward the party that sustains the inflows. Abroad, the same funds support left leaning movements and governments through foreign aid and grants. Billions flow to organizations and projects that advance the broader agenda. Domestic clients and foreign allies draw from one source, taxes taken from working Americans. The record shows the pattern without interruption. Welfare after 1964 produced long-term dependents whose votes reward the party delivering benefits. Current immigration policies expand the dependent pool and alter political arithmetic. Foreign spending projects the model outward. Productive labor funds all of it so the left maintains control. The numbers on family structure, fiscal transfers, voting loyalty, and power allocation line up exactly. So work harder and pay your taxes, peasant.

Your kids are retarded while you pay higher taxes because Democrats bought the teachers unions as a permanent ally to stay in power. Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education just to lock in the NEA’s first ever presidential endorsement. That’s it. He just wanted their votes. Democrats protect the monopoly by killing real school choice, piling on federal mandates that bloat the bureaucracy, and pushing trillions through a system built to resist accountability. In return, the unions deliver the votes, ground game, and hundreds of millions in political spending with some 98% routinely going to Democrats. Democrats give taxpayer money to the unions and then the unions launder it back to the Democrats’ election campaigns. Taxpayer-funded Democratic party campaigns, basically. From 2000 to 2017, school district admin staff grew 75% while teachers grew just 8%. Non-teaching staff now make up nearly half the workforce. That explosion creates more dues paying jobs and political muscle while shielding the whole thing from competition. The alliance keeps the power. Unions and Democrats get the resources and the jobs. Your kids and your wallet get the bill. That is limited options and stagnant results. And the best thing is that the Republicans watched it happen for decades and did nothing.

“‘Social justice’ is simply a quasi-religious superstition… which we must fight when it becomes the pretext of coercing other men. And the prevailing belief in ‘social justice’ is at present probably the gravest threat to most other values of a free civilization.” — F.A. Hayek The Henry Nowak murder, the Pakistani muslim rape gang report, and the political response that followed are the perfect illustration. True justice is individual. It exists only to protect a person’s life, liberty, and property from aggression. The same clear rules apply to everyone, regardless of skin color, ancestry, or group grievances. No special treatment. No collective score-settling. Social justice and “collective rights” do the opposite. They turn an inconvenience or conflict involving one person into a supposed crime against his entire identity group. The state then feels entitled to bend procedures, evidence standards, and equal protection to “protect” the narrative of that group. This is how you manufacture a two-tier system where some individuals are worth more than others depending on which demographic box they check. The dying man gets handcuffed while officers entertain the killer’s racism claim. Facts become secondary to group identity. That is the destruction of justice. Tribal collectivism dressed up as morality. Hayek saw where this road leads. Britain is already on it. Reject the mirage before the rule of law collapses for everyone.

“We are going to have a multi-racial nation in Singapore. This is not a Malay nation. This is not a Chinese nation. This is not an Indian nation. Everybody will have his place here, equal: language, culture, religion.” — Lee Kuan Yew, August 9, 1965 LKY’s quote echoes Aristotle’s account of the polis as the highest koinonia, or community, formed not by blood or mere aggregation but for the sake of eudaimonia, the good life, through justice as its binding principle and the cultivation of virtue among citizens. A regime, or politeia, endures when it serves the common good rather than faction. Lee took a vulnerable, divided entrepôt and deliberately constructed a modern polis. He rejected ethnic clientelism, imposed equal rules under law, rewarded merit, and built habits of discipline and cohesion so citizens of every background could pursue security and rising prosperity together. He treated nationhood as a fragile achievement that required constant defense against stasis. Aristotle warned that when a politeia no longer aims at eudaimonia for the whole but instead manages competing interests and erodes the civic ethos, it decays into factional strife and eventual collapse. And Lee showed what deliberate counter measures look like in practice. America today is moving toward the condition Aristotle feared and Lee refused to accept. Identity based claims increasingly displace equal rules, merit yields to group outcome, and trust in shared institutions frays. Without a conscious recovery of the principles that once sustained our own politeia, namely justice applied without favor, habits of self-government, and a civic ethos oriented toward the flourishing of citizens as one people rather than rival tribes, America risks the very stasis and hollowing that have undone polities throughout history.

How many more children before we admit the experiment failed? This time it’s two Iraqi brothers, 18 and 20, on trial in Essen, Germany, for allegedly raping a 7 year old girl on two separate occasions. She was the friend of their younger sister who lived right next door. Another horror story in a continent-wide pattern. Across Europe, men from certain immigrant backgrounds, especially Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Africa, are wildly overrepresented in rape and child sexual abuse statistics. In Germany, foreigners are 15% of the population but 38% of rape suspects. In Sweden, immigrant men dominate rape convictions in long term studies, even after adjusting for age and socioeconomic factors. Those arriving as teens or adults bring the highest risk. In the UK, foreign citizens are 3.5x more likely to be arrested for sexual offences. The Pakistani muslim grooming gang scandal is still unraveling. Europe didn’t have an epidemic of 7 year olds being raped by their neighbors’ older brothers before the mass low-skilled migration experiment. It imported the problem along with the people. Cultures that treat non-muslim girls as fair game, or that normalize early sexualization and weak boundaries around children, don’t magically become Swedish, German, or British just because they cross a border. This is what happens when you prioritize volume over compatibility and then gaslight the public about the results. The trial continues. The pattern continues. The denial continues.

It’s all fake and gay. Government and media manufactured the “class war” then pivoted to race war to absolve the state of blame for the 2008 crisis, sideline the Tea Party with racist media attacks, and consolidate power in leftist hands. The crash was produced by Fed money printing, Fannie and Freddie guarantees, and government mandates that forced risky loans into the system. When it collapsed the insiders got bailed out. The public absorbed the damage. The Tea Party demanded accountability for the bailouts and spending. Media met that challenge by branding the movement racist from the start. That attack neutralized a direct threat to big government and crony finance. Occupy was tolerated because it focused on banks and left the state’s central role untouched. And since the “racist” accusations worked on the Tea Party, the pivot to race delivered new tools for state expansion. Media usage of the word racist surged after 2012. Equity and systemic claims became the justification for deeper government reach into hiring, lending, education, and speech. The result is consolidated leftist power. The administrative state grew larger and more intrusive. Progressive ideology gained institutional dominance while opposition gets preemptively discredited rather than debated on substance. This sequence protected the government from reckoning with the crisis it created and shifted authority toward those who thrive on bigger government and identity based control. Now the woke narrative is crumbling, watch them pivot back to a class war.

The open society and its enemy, Soros. While he named his Open Society Foundations after Karl Popper’s “The Open Society and Its Enemies,” his project stands as a philosophical inversion of everything Popper defended. Popper’s open society rested on critical rationalism, the recognition that no one possesses final truth, that institutions must remain open to criticism and piecemeal reform, and that democracy functions as a method for removing rulers without bloodshed. He rejected historicism, the belief in iron laws of history that justify sacrificing present generations for a utopian future, and warned that such thinking inevitably produces closed, authoritarian societies. Soros has repurposed the label to advance a grand project of engineered demographic transformation. Through mass immigration, multiculturalism as official policy, and diversity mandates that prioritize group identity over individual merit and assimilation, his foundations actively dissolve the cultural continuity and social trust that make rational criticism and incremental change possible. Popper understood that openness requires a stable framework, a shared language of reason, basic cohesion, and institutions citizens feel they collectively own. Soros treats those foundations as obstacles to be overcome in the name of an abstract, borderless openness. The concrete results are visible. Parallel societies that operate under different norms, public spaces where debate on the scale and selection of immigration is treated as illegitimate, and the rise of identity based hierarchies that close off dissent in the name of equity. These are certainly not expansions of the open society, but new forms of closure, tribal in character, enforced through institutional capture rather than overt dictatorship, yet hostile to the very critical spirit Popper placed at the center of civilized life. Philosophically, Soros replaces Popper’s falsification and humility before reality with a new historicism, the conviction that global multiculturalism and open borders represent inevitable moral progress, and that resistance from actual existing communities constitutes the new enemy. The machinery funded in the name of openness does not test its own assumptions against evidence, it suppresses the questions. Those who still value the ideal of an open society should read Popper on their own terms. They will find that Soros has not extended the open society, but has supplied its most sophisticated contemporary enemies.

Nobody voted for this. The same supranational elites shouting “save our democracy” are ramming through a globalist agenda of open borders, mass amnesty, and demographic replacement that no European population ever approved. Because to them, democracy never meant rule of the people. It means their rule. No different than North Korea claiming to be democratic because the dictator supposedly speaks for the will of the people. You’re only allowed to vote on trivial issues. The decisions that actually destroy a civilization like who enters your country, what your culture becomes, whether your nation even survives, it all happens without your consent. You’re not in charge. You’re being ruled.

Multiculturalism is sold as neutral cultures peacefully coexisting side by side. That’s deliberate propaganda. Some cultures are not neutral. They are openly hostile, teaching that outsiders, especially white Christians, are filthy heathens and subhumans to be used, exploited, or replaced. The grooming gang scandals weren’t random crime. Victims were repeatedly called “white slags,” “kuffar whores,” and worse while being raped and trafficked by organised groups who viewed them with religious and racial contempt. This was the ideology in action. When one population is imported en masse, refuses to assimilate, builds parallel societies, and pursues demographic and cultural dominance, the result is not “diversity.” It’s conquest by other means with all the social breakdown, loss of trust, and long term subjugation that comes from losing a war without a single battle. The West was never asked. The West can still choose not to surrender.

“We’re here to fuck all the white girls and fuck the government. We’re over here to breed, we are going to take over.” That’s what one of the Dewsbury grooming gang rapists told his victim. Not poverty. Not “cultural misunderstanding”. Not random crime by “Asians”. This was muslim men operating with a clear religious and racial ideology. White non-Muslim girls were “slags”, “trash”, and “kuffar whores”, fair game for grooming, gang rape, trafficking, and beatings. Muslim girls were “pure”. White girls deserved it. Some perpetrators quoted scripture and framed their actions as religiously justified superiority over infidels. When the government repeatedly sides with the ideological rapists over its own children, when it betrays fathers and communities trying to protect their daughters, don’t act shocked when people lose faith in the system and take matters into their own hands. This is demographic and cultural conquest. An existential attack on Britain enabled by the very people sworn to defend it. The absolutely filthy anti-white, anti-Christian racist Mehdi Hasan calls the Casey report and the whole push for truth “bullshit.” The rapists’ own words in court and the girls they destroyed say otherwise. Denial this loud only confirms who’s still protecting the narrative and why.

China added a Germany-sized low carbon electricity grid last year. Nearly 500 TWh more generation, almost all solar and wind, built in factories that still burn coal. Carbon payback came in under two years and power sector emissions still fell. Germany already had zero carbon nuclear power. It shut the last plants down in 2023 because ideology demanded it. Higher prices and more coal and gas backup followed. One country scales clean energy through ruthless pragmatism. The other commits economic suicide and calls it environmental virtue. The West is economically self-destructing by submitting to blue haired lesbians on SSRIs.

Based DOJ. Somali naturalized in 2007 then ran to al-Shabaab (Islamist terrorists btw) months later. Now the DOJ is using the 1952 law to strip his citizenship. Good. He took the oath then proved he never meant it. Citizenship is not some permanent prize you keep after siding with terrorists. It is a contract. Break it and it ends. The old rule exists for exactly these cases. Critics whining about McCarthyism can get lost. America has every right to take back what was granted under false loyalty. We need more of that based McCarthy era.

The left just normalized so much insanity that basic self-preservation now gets called “far right extremism.” Decades of open borders and failed assimilation delivered parallel societies, welfare strain, and crime spikes in city after city. Green fanaticism delivered energy poverty and deindustrialization while virtue signaling. Woke ideology delivered confused kids, erased women, and attacks on national identity. And the result is voters across France, Germany, Italy, Poland, the UK and beyond are backing the parties the media smears as “far right.” Those parties are simply saying what was common sense centrist a generation ago. Secure borders. Citizens first. Affordable energy. Law and order. Protect children. Preserve your culture. The Overton window got dragged so far left that reality, sanity, and common sense now look radical.

Women make up the overwhelming majority of converts to Islam in the West. Leftism drives this through suicidal empathy for foreign cultures and rigid conformity to anti-Western dogma promoted by academia, the media, and dominant institutions. As more women have shifted further left in recent years, they increasingly turn away from the freedoms of Western society toward a vacuum filled by the structure of Islam. Orwell identified the pattern in 1984: “It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.” The most zealous supporters of strict ideological systems have long been women. These conversions highlight how leftism has created a cultural opening that Islam effectively fills.

At least 250,000 white British girls have been groomed, raped, and brutalized. Out of 4.2 million white British girls under 18, that’s more than 6 percent (!!!!) This is industrialized rape on a scale that should shame a nation. The politicians who opened the borders and looked the other way belong in prison. The cops, social workers, and officials who knew exactly what was happening and stayed silent to protect their careers belong in prison. The ones who covered it up and protected the rapists belong in prison. Anyone still shielding these monsters today belongs in prison. And the rapists themselves should hang.

The welfare state has been more destructive to the black family than slavery just by restructuring the incentives. In 1960, nearly a century after emancipation, only about 22% of black children grew up in single-parent households. By 1990, after the Great Society welfare expansions, that number had more than tripled. Thomas Sowell has long shown this wasn’t the lingering shadow of slavery or some vague “legacy.” The destruction of the black family was the direct result of welfare policies that subsidized single motherhood and penalized marriage. The incentives changed, and family structure collapsed accordingly.

The UK government wants to censor social media to hide the despicable things they do or allow to happen without consequences. For years they let organized gangs rape, torture, and traffic vulnerable white working-class girls while dismissing the victims as “white trash.” Political correctness mattered more than protecting children. And they have no intention of stopping it. Their solution is to bury the truth and silence anyone who speaks about it. Because in their eyes, the real problem has never been the abuse, it’s the public’s reaction to it.

Most black births today occur out of wedlock, and a growing share involve different fathers over time. Two-income households carry an extremely low poverty risk around 1–2%. Single-income parent homes face poverty rates of 25–35%. The nuclear family still matters. Stable two-parent households produce dramatically less poverty, less welfare dependency, and less burden on society. This isn’t “systemic”. It’s the predictable consequence of personal choices about marriage, family, and responsibility.

Multiculturalism means embracing every other culture over the West’s. Under the guise of “inclusion,” it acts as a Trojan horse that delivers the total erasure of Western culture in practice. Every person and organization promoting it is an enemy of the West.