Saving Democracy

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.

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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. 

Ed Morrissey

Want to save democracy? Make it accountable again. And the best way to accomplish that is to shift power back to the jurisdictions closest to voters, not more remote. Read it all. 

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