This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of your life in the interests of 'keeping you safe.' ... On the other hand, when it comes to 'keeping you safe' from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing. ... It is now certain that Tehran will get its nukes, and very soon. This is the biggest abdication of responsibility by the Western powers since the 1930s.
Mark SteynIn Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?
Mark SteynBut in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff thatโs over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperament within government-policed parameters, it isnโt free at all. So screw that.
Mark SteynThe progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse. There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital - and that's before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems.
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