A home run from Steyn...

Mark Steyn's article here clarifies a simple but critical point. Western populations ("civilized people") are dying off and being replaced by imports from the Middle East, Asia, or Africa.

Couple this trend with the continuing rise of the American welfare state and the money printing addiction of the Fed and our politicians, and the picture begins to look very bad.

I can only hope that the supposedly smart people who are in power have solutions for these problems that they just haven't shared with the rest of us yet, but in the meantime I can only assume that they do not.

Most people reading this have strong stomachs, so let me lay it out as baldly as I can: Much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive this century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not most Western European countries.

That's what the war's about: our lack of civilizational confidence. As a famous Arnold Toynbee quote puts it: "Civilizations die from suicide, not murder"--as can be seen throughout much of "the Western world" right now. The progressive agenda--lavish social welfare, abortion, secularism, multiculturalism--is collectively the real suicide bomb.

The default mode of our elites is that anything that happens--from terrorism to tsunamis--can be understood only as deriving from the perniciousness of Western civilization. As Jean-Francois Revel wrote, "Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself."

For 30 years, we've had endless wake-up calls for things that aren't worth waking up for. But for the very real, remorseless shifts in our society--the ones truly jeopardizing our future--we're sound asleep

There is much more, but I'd just end up excerpting the entire article. Read it.