Farewell, England and France

Adieu

Something feels different this time about the elections. I am referring to the elections this past week in the United Kingdom and France. England, France, Germany, and Italy were the four leaders in post-classical Western civilization prior to the 20th century, according to Charles Murray’s book “Human Accomplishment”, a grand survey of civilization for the last 3000 years, so the fate of these nations should concern us all.

Let us pause and look down Murray’s list of the most accomplished people in multiple fields, using his own scoring method combined with a mathematical collation method.

Newton, Galileo, Shakespeare, Aristotle, Beethoven, Mozart, Michelangelo, Goethe, Bach, Watt, Edison, Einstein, Wagner, Lavoisier, Darwin, Euler, Picasso, Pasteur, Raphael, Rutherford, Dante, Hippocrates, Faraday, Lamarck, Kepler

Euclid and Plato are a bit farther down the list, which continues with hundreds of entries. In any case, the list is dominated by the four countries mentioned above, plus ancient Greece and America. We should recognize that the fates of these countries are intertwined, and a loss of one of them is a loss for all.

Elections come and elections go. But collapse happens gradually then suddenly, as the saying goes.

The parliamentary results in each country are shockingly out of line with the votes cast. I am not alleging fraud; I am simply observing the consequences of a poorly-chosen electoral system. In both countries, the rules disadvantaged the conservative parties, and helped the leftist parties.

• In Britain, the Reform party (Nigel Farage’s party) received more than 14% of the vote and fewer than 1% of the seats; Labour received less than 34% of the vote and more than 63% of the seats.

• In France, the National Rally party (Marine LePen’s party) received more than 30% of the vote (more than any other single party) and fewer than 22% of the seats; the New Popular Front (socialist-communist) received less than 28% of the vote and more than 31% of the seats, while Ensemble (Macron’s party) received less than 23% of the vote and more than 27% of the seats.

One cannot avoid discussing the other obvious factor in these elections: the influence of the “newcomers”. Those “newcomers” have no use for Moses, Aristotle, Euclid, Jesus, Shakespeare, Newton, Bach, Mozart, Jefferson, and the like. Their culture is better known for gang rape, and apparently Western “progressives” just can’t get enough of it. “We must have made them angry.”

Farage and LePen put up a splendid fight. There is no coming back this time for England and France, I fear. Will Tommy Robinson and Eric Zemmour run for election next time? Zemmour did run this time, and won no seats.

The following image presents the Pew Research Forum’s 2017 analysis of Europe’s Muslim population in 2050, assuming high migration. The trend in western Europe is irreversible; the native birth rate will fall, guaranteed, and the immigrant birth rate will rise. Just don’t mention the great replacement. Eastern Europe may fare better, but it will be trapped between an Islamizing western Europe, and a Russia that was recently forecast to approach one-third Muslim at mid-century.

As Europe’s native “progressives” lie beaten and bloody on the ground, what will they say to themselves? “What could I have done to make the newcomers feel more welcome? Are they upset with me for not being anti-racist enough? I hate conservatives as much as they do!” One thing you should not expect to hear is this: “Might I have been wrong? Will the newcomers ever play a Palestrina motet, compose a sonnet, paint an impressionist painting? Will they ever ask my opinion about anything?”

Western civilization is dying, and the worst thing we have to fear is that we might injure someone’s feelings by being honest.