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May 12, 2009
The sinking ship
Bruce Bawer's City Journal piece offers some horrifying statistics to conjure with. I had written a longer post citing a number of said statistics but thought the better of inciting some bureaucrat to violating my human rights in front of a human rights drumhead trial. This is Canada; we can't handle the truth.
One factoid did stand out, however.
More and more Western Europeans, recognizing the threat to their safety and way of life, have turned their backs on the establishment, which has done little or nothing to address these problems, and begun voting for parties—some relatively new, and all considered right-wing—that have dared to speak up about them. One measure of the dimensions of this shift: owing to the rise in gay-bashings by Muslim youths, Dutch gays—who ten years ago constituted a reliable left-wing voting bloc—now support conservative parties by a nearly two-to-one margin.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 12, 2009 07:14 AM
Comments
Right and Left wing are obsolete as terms. Something like "Pro WestCiv" would be apposite; just needs to sound snappier. Jacksonian captures the foreign policy side of it, but not the domestic... hmmm.
Ideas?
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at May 12, 2009 01:34 PM
