One of the great ironies about the clash of cultures in the West, exemplified in the United States by the different ways that "elites" and ordinary people see racial and immigration politics, and in Great Britain by the arguments over mass migration and the growing influence of Islam, is that ordinary people are stuck in the middle between two alien cultures.
It's easy to see the conflict as only two-sided, but there are really three. You have the common-sense people who want the destruction of civilized values to stop, the people destroying those values, and the "elites" who side with the destroyers for their own purposes, either out of racial guilt or as a means of gaining or retaining power as the people in the middle rebel against them.
The second conflict, between the "normies" and the "elite" is perfectly exemplified by this exchange:
"You cannot change the rules so people who had a legal right to be here have to leave"
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) June 11, 2026
"Yes you can"
"Well you can but do you want to live in a country that does that?"
"YES"
BASED PATRIOT 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/EjIpUvvxid
The "elite" view is that they have created rules that empower the mass migration movement, so it is illegitimate to criticize the rules and change them to something rational.
"We let the migrants in, so it's unfair to change the rules."
'Normie": Why? Of course we can change these stupid rules, and have to before everything falls apart.
Mohammed Abu Sumel, a HIGHLY RESPECTED IMAM from a Bradford mosque, attempted to sexually abuse a 14yo white British girl, busted by British patriots.
— Pippa B 🇬🇧🏴 🚜 ❤️ 🇺🇸 (@pippaisright) June 10, 2026
Mohammed said: “I am Muslim, just one girl, I’m checking if she is good or bad.” pic.twitter.com/37S970mGIH
That, my friend, is the voice of common sense. "We don't want to die, see our daughters and wives raped, and have Sharia law take over in Britain." Or, "We don't want roving bands of criminals destroying things and killing people."
Seems pretty rational to me. Allowing this to happen was insane, so stop being insane. What could be more reasonable than that? Who cares if it looks "mean." Putting criminals in prison looks mean, if you don't put the reasons for doing so in context. Once you know the context, you want to throw away the keys.
You’re f*cking kidding me…
— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) June 10, 2026
“I wish people didn’t see that video”
The Minister of Northern Ireland blames Tommy Robinson and Elon for what happened in Belfast last night… pic.twitter.com/uK8OHuTJfP
I often rant about the "elite," and with good reason. They are the bigger source of the problem than the roving gangs, who could be stopped with policies intended to do so. You can't stop any individual crime, but you can clamp down on the conditions that make them common.
See Beege's post from earlier today.
According to the UK government, you’re considered a terrorist if you believe that Western culture is under threat from mass migration.
— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) June 9, 2026
Yes, this is really on their website. pic.twitter.com/XLh2X6Hri3
Think of horse thieves in the Wild West. It's not like stealing horses would be difficult. After all, they are out in the open, don't need keys, are not "locked" when on a hitching post, or anything like that. It was uncommon because people caught doing so were hanged. Since horses were vital to survival, conditions were created that made horse thieves think twice, three times, or even more before doing something stupid.
🚨 JUST IN: A 17-year-old girl was raped by four Afghan migrants, including 16-year-old boy, for hours in Bristol.https://t.co/5wQZsC1Oo4
— The Mercian (@TheMercianNews) June 9, 2026
Obviously the opposite has happened in Western countries when it comes to certain crimes, which are tolerated or even celebrated. Rioters are almost never punished, and people even teach others how to do so on Zoom calls and in training. Judges let them go without punishment, politicians bow down to them, and excuses are made for them.
Police officers show up at a man's house because of his Facebook comments. Keir Starmer is one of worst dictators in the world. pic.twitter.com/BLT1bwJPoV
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) June 8, 2026
Same with "teen takeovers." Sure, a few might get arrested, but who goes to jail? Even violent criminals are routinely put through the revolving door until they kill somebody, which is why every horrific crime we see was done by a "known wolf" with a rap sheet a mile long.
In the UK, being Muslim is an instant excuse, while criticizing Muslim crimes is a ticket to getting a visit from police, or even jail time.
— Soup (@SRUmberger) June 11, 2026
"Normies" know that this is all wrong, and when an idiot "elite" says that it is "unfair" to kick the perpetrators out when possible, the common sense response is: "Why?" Of course you can do it.
‘No wonder trust in Britain’s institutions is collapsing.’@WillKingston reports police at the centre of the Henry Nowak scandal reportedly tried to intervene during his killer’s murder trial, over fears about what people were saying online. pic.twitter.com/ln5nTd0MWX
— GB News (@GBNEWS) June 6, 2026
Instead, the "elite" suppresses even the expression of that sentiment, and is perfectly willing to slander the victims of horrific crimes in order to defend the indefensible. If you can't actually defend the policies in words, then you suppress the dissent instead.
See Beege's post from earlier today. It captures the insanity of how "elite" Britain responds to justifiable anger.
That's why there is an explosion of rage in the UK. And it's not that there was a boiling cauldron before things hit a breaking point. For all the worry about the explosion of racial violence that justified suppressing facts and opinions, British people merely grumbled about the changes.
What brought the rage was the denial of reality and the refusal to take measures to make it stop.
The migrant who brutally killed Rhiannon Whyte in 2024 by stabbing her nearly two-dozen times with a screwdriver in Walsall, England was from Sudan.
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 9, 2026
Deng Majek was recorded dancing and laughing after killing the woman. He was sentenced to 29 years in prison in January this year. https://t.co/E9eD3ohsXK pic.twitter.com/JisNfNKD8i
An attempted beheading, it seems, is what sparked the current round of violence, but that is on top of the rape gangs, the street takeovers of Muslims praying, blocking traffic, the displacement of British people from housing to give to illegal migrants, and so much more.
WOW. This exchange in the House of Commons reveals the problem.
— Matt Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) June 9, 2026
Jim Allister:
“What is being done to stop the importing of alien cultures in which people think it is acceptable to try and behead somebody?”
Hilary Benn: “sorry, what do you mean by alien cultures?”
None of this is just a fact of life. It is the product of policies that can be changed, and people have made clear they want them to be.
Instead of listening, the "elite" went to war against the "normies." The explosion of rage is not just aimed at the migrants; it is aimed at the people who imposed third-world values on first-world citizens.
It is self-defense, at least as they see it.
That isn't a justification for what amounts to a pogrom. The riots in Belfast were awful to behold.
But utterly predictable. The rioters, at least many of them, thought that they had no other choice.
It could have been avoided. Getting here was a choice. Lots of us predicted it. The British "elite" decided to suppress and prosecute those who said it was coming.
Here it is, a new round of "the troubles."
Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.
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