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The European System Staggers Towards Collapse

 May 9, 2025 0 Likes 15 niggers be lookin'

Credit Image: © Imago via ZUMA Press

Liberal democracy is supposed to be a process, not an outcome. George Soros champions an “Open Society” that moves closer to truth by dispensing with irrational, authoritarian, and closed systems of values. Instead, through open debate, tolerance for minorities and dissidents, civil rights, and cosmopolitanism, democracies can find the truth. A king might draw legitimacy from divine lineage, the church, or military success, but a democratic leader is a mere man whose legitimacy comes from the rational consent of the masses. That is the theory anyway.

Perhaps there was a time when people believed this, but it is hard to believe now. What we still call democracy in the West is a game of whack-a-mole, in which a shifting alliance of politicians, international bureaucrats, judges, and taxpayer-funded “Non-Governmental Organizations” lecture people on whom they are allowed to vote for and what they are allowed to say.

Perhaps the most compelling example today is in Romania. In the most recent election, George Simion won a decisive first-round victory with over 40 percent of the vote, while the runner-up received only about half as much. There will be a runoff, with Mr. Simion the obvious favorite. Yes, Romania already had an election last November, in which Călin Georgescu won the first round. He was anti-globalist, orthodox Christian, skeptical of NATO, opposed to support for Ukraine, and he praised nationalist figures whom liberals call “fascists.”

George Simion (Credit Image: © Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via ZUMA Press)

Romanian intelligence said Russia had manipulated social media to give him the victory. The government canceled the entire election and barred the winner from running again. This may have backfired with the success of Mr. Simion.

International media have denounced Mr. Simion as “far-right” and out of the mainstream. What do such words even mean when 40 percent of the electorate already voted for him?

Politico has a typical “meet the villian” smear: “Meet George Simion, the hard-right Romanian election winner who’s banned from Ukraine.” It called him a “Trump fanboy,” a “far-right chief,” and leader of a party that is “anti-science.”

Liberal media may see everyone right-of-center as essentially the same, but Mr. Simion defines himself differently from Mr. Georgescu: “We are a Trumpist party which will govern Romania and which will make Romania a strong partner in NATO and a strong ally of the United States.” He also called for the “Melonization” of Europe, referring to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who acknowledges he comes from the same “political family of European conservatives.”

Mr. Simion is hardly an anti-NATO radical, especially considering Giorgia Meloni’s strong support for Ukraine. On the other hand, Mr. Simion also suggested he would name former candidate Georgescu as prime minister if he is elected, which would undoubtedly horrify those who want continued Romanian support for Ukraine.

Călin Georgescu (Credit Image: © Cristian Cristel/Xinhua via ZUMA Press)

Mr. Simion has a strong base among Romanian expatriates, partially because of his nationalism and partly because he was the only candidate who pursued their votes. “Experts” quoted by Politico blamed “poorly-educated” expatriates looking for an “easy solution,” and TikTok, which does not require “too much attention.” Implication: We need more social media regulation. Mr. Simion is a former football hooligan, and used to spray-paint nationalist and revanchist graffiti with friends. This is not the sort of person of whom international media approve.

The Romanian establishment has responded to the first round with barely concealed panic. The Social Democratic Party withdrew from the governing coalition because of its clear loss of credibility. Social Democrat Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu also stepped down and was replaced by Catalin Predoiu, from the more conservative National Liberal Party. Mr. Predoiu says Romania “must remain a resilient democracy, a country whose development objectives remain anchored in Euro-Atlantic values.”

The coalition includes the Hungarian UDMR party, an interesting coalition member in a government supposedly concerned about foreign interference. It seems that foreign interference is a threat only if social media are allegedly manipulated by foreigners.

Mr. Simion’s victory in the second round on May 18 is not guaranteed. His opponent will be Nicusor Dan, the mayor of Bucharest. The National Liberal Party is backing him, as is the Hungarian UDMR because it says Mr. Simion is “anti-Hungarian.” The so-called “center-right” European People’s Party group in the EU parliament is promoting him, and says it’s “unacceptable” for Romania’s socialists not to back Mayor Dan (yet). The Socialists & Democrats bloc in the EU Parliament is also behind Mr. Dan, warning that “in the face of rising extremism across Europe, there is no room for political games.” Mr. Dan can also count on support from the ruling party of Moldova. None of this is apparently unacceptable “outside interference.”

What happens if Mr. Simion wins? We don’t know. However, we know what happens in Germany when voters misbehave. The “Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution,” German’s internal spy agency, recently designated the country’s leading political party, the Alternative for Democracy, as “extremist,” which could be an important step in banning the party outright. Even Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this was “tyranny in disguise.” Remarkably, the German government responded that this is democracy in action, to the praise of much of the international press.

Many look to modern Germany as an example of how to regulate speech. In 2021, The Washington Post argued that the American government should treat the United States the way the German government treats Germany. This is especially chilling because the rationale for calling the AfD extremist is that the party does not consider ethnic non-Germans to be truly German. The spy agency reported:

The prevailing understanding of ethnicity and descent in the [AfD] party is not compatible with the free democratic basic order. It aims to exclude certain population groups from equal participation in society, to expose them to unequal treatment that is not in conformity with the constitution and thus to assign them a legally devalued status. Specifically, the AfD, for example, does not consider German citizens with a migration history from Muslim countries to be equal members of the German people ethnically defined by the party.

. . . . This is reflected in the large number of xenophobic, minority, Islamophobic and anti-Muslim statements made by leading party officials.

The spy agency has since walked back the “extremist” designation and now says that while legal proceedings are ongoing, it will monitor the party only as a “suspected case”

Still, the agency is claiming that a constitutional principle of modern Germany is that there is no real German people. “Germanness” seems to be determined by mere occupancy, and new arrivals are welcome to hate ethnic Germans.

National, ethnic, and racial identities are forbidden to whites but fine for non-whites, especially when they insult whites in their own homelands. It is therefore forbidden to organize political opposition to a hostile occupation. Is this what the West’s rulers mean by “democracy?”

The meaning of words is determined by how they are used. There are self-style “socialists,” such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who don’t believe in ending private property, but are fanatics on immigrant and homosexual rights. Therefore, that’s “socialism.”

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Similarly, winning an election or doing things voters like is not enough to be a “democratic” leader. The international press calls men such as Nayib Bukele and Viktor Orban “authoritarian” despite repeated electoral victories. Polls show that Western electorates want lower levels of immigration, but governments ignore them and even ban those who want border control. Therefore, it seems that “democracy” means replacing the historic population with non-whites.

Likewise, the idea that democracy means citizens enjoy free elections, free speech, or the right to oppose government is now so outdated it feels embarrassing to claim it. It certainly does not mean that the people rule. “Protecting democracy” does not mean more freedom, it means more censorship.

Democracy itself is no longer an “open society” but a closed system. Elites always rule, and any system has assumptions that are not open to debate. While the United States has more freedom than almost all other Western countries, we are not exempt from the trend, and we do not have the free speech we took for granted in the early days of social media — say, 12 to 15 years ago.

There are encouraging signs that whites throwing off egalitarian orthodoxy, but our rulers may force us to destroy almost every established institution, legal norm, and social taboo if that’s what it takes to get commonsense policies. Europe could defeat the “far right” by closing borders, but aside from Denmark, governments seem irrationally committed to demographic suicide. They are gambling whites will surrender. If Europe’s rulers are wrong, their refusal to heed voters guarantees political extremism and even violence. They have been warned. Just look at election results. The writing is on the wall.

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