The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: The West Isn’t Finished, as Long as Assimilation Starts Now

Starting point is 00:00:00 Everybody is worried about the status and future of Western civilization. We have open borders in the West, and it's a very funny type of open borders. We have millions of people who want to come in illegally to the United States. But guess what? They don't want to fully assimilate, integrate. Are people in Los Angeles waving the flag of Mexico they don't want to go back to and burning the flag of America? They insist on staying. That's incoherent. I could go on with these symptoms, but they all point to a period supposedly of decline. But all's not lost.

Starting point is 00:00:30 Our Generous Signal elite supporters make this video possible. Please consider joining today. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal. Everybody is worried about the status and future of Western civilization. That's a broad term, but it mostly denotes what is now Europe, the United States, North American Canada, the former domains of the British Anglophonic Empire, and I mean specifically New Zealand, Australia, Britain, Canada, etc., again. And then more importantly, the westernized countries, mostly in Asia, and that would be Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. And they are in a

Starting point is 00:01:24 period of crisis decline. And what would be the symptoms? We all know what they are. The fertility rate in these countries is falling drastically. People do not want to raise children. They want to satisfy their appetites. They don't want to put up with them. They don't have the money they feel. But the fertility rate in these Asian and Western countries is below 1.5. And Europe is about 1.39. United States is the best, except for Western Israel. It's about 1.7. In addition to that, they've made horrendous children. choices by falling prey to ideological mantras about green energy, and they've turned their back on efficient fusion, efficient nuclear energy, hydroelectric, natural gas, instead

Starting point is 00:02:15 have invested in wind and solar, and that has been expensive, inefficient, and has priced them out of the global market in many cases. In addition to that, they're unarmed. They have not even spent until recently 2% Europe. Even the United States, this Navy is not what it was during the Reagan period. And when you add up infertility, that's what it is, and you add up the bane of green energy, and you add being disarmed, it really can't withstand any other pressures. But there are pressures. We have open borders in the West, and it's a very funny type of open borders.

Starting point is 00:02:52 We have millions of people who want to come in illegally to the United States and into Europe. But guess what? They don't want to fully assimilate, integrate anymore. They want to create their enclaves that are antithetical to the very society they demand to stay in. And that manifests itself in people in Europe trying to cancel Christmas, even though that is a Western tradition and they wanted to come into a Western country. Or people in Los Angeles waving the flag of Mexico, they don't want to go back to and burning the flag of America. They insist on staying. That's incoherent. I could go on with these symptoms, but they all. all point to a period supposedly of decline. But all's not lost. There are counter-revolutions. And the counter-revolutions are very strange because they're occurring in places where sophisticated elite Westerners look down upon. In the case of Europe, it's Eastern Europe.

Starting point is 00:03:46 It's Hungary. It's Poland. It's a Czech Republic. It's Romania. It's the new post-Soviet states. In the United States, it's the Red States. Many of them, part of the the supposed illiberal old confederacy. And what's that counter? And also places in pockets like Wyoming or Utah or Idaho. And what do they have in common, the Eastern Europeans and the red states in America? They are saying, not yet. Not yet. We're not done yet. We're going to go back and find a period of renewal. And we know what that renewal is because we've seen what you do in Western Europe and we've seen what you do in the blue states. Your paradigm doesn't work. And when you know it doesn't work, you infringe on free speech. You call it hate speech or disinformation. And we know

Starting point is 00:04:34 you now. We've seen this side of you, the one I jack. So we're going to offer a different paradigm. Instead of atheism and nihilism and agnosticism, we're going to go back to a Judeo-Christian tradition with tolerance for other religions. We're going to go back to the nuclear family. We're going to go back to honoring the role of women, not just as professionals, which is wonderful and great, but also as mothers of two, three, four children. There's nothing wrong with that. In fact, that's the linchpin of civilization. And we're going to rearm. If Trump may say he can bring back the battleship, Europe may say they can spend five percent, but we're not going to just roll over yet, that is, Red State America and Eastern Europe. And more importantly,

Starting point is 00:05:18 we're going to restore free speech, so we're going to discuss these things. So we're going to close our borders. It's going to be legal-only immigration, and we do not want you coming into Europe unless you want to assimilate, integrate, and be fully European. That's what is happening in Eastern Europe. And the same is true in red states. And the question then is, what's this all about? It's a verdict for the future of Western civilization. We've had the revolution for 50 years, but we haven't seen a counter-revolution,

Starting point is 00:05:46 to the degree that's taking place, Western European elites, elites in the former British Commonwealth, and Blue State elites all are very critical of the Yahoo's in Eastern Europe and the Yahoo's in the Red States, but only for a while, because their paradigm is collapsing as we speak, and the people who are going to save Europe are the people who they thought they were embarrassed of. It's quite ironic, but it's also a hopeful time for Western civilization. Thank you very much. It's Victor Davis-Hanson for The Daily Signal.

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The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: The West Isn’t Finished, as Long as Assimilation Starts Now

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