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I suspect things are beginning to change. The argument in favour of mass immigration from the third world has been disproven time and again. Many economic studies demonstrate the case against it. But it barely matters as every Western nation has a traditional media ruthlessly hostile to anti-immigration arguments, and especially pro-nationalist sentiment. The education sector is of course the grandfather of blank slate thinking, so they are no help and they are doing their best to inculcate these novel ideas in the young.

Alas, as with all left progressive ideas, their enemy is reality. Multiculturalism is bringing low trust, violence and the abuse of women with it. Our cities are becoming unsafe. Everything is in decline. To the horror of the media class none of it can be hidden. It is inherently visible. And it is obvious where much of the dysfunction emanates from.

I would dearly love to know what is going on in their minds. Do they believe we are all equal? Or is it pure Nietzschean ressentiment? An enduring hatred for all they see around them?

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A note to self on reading Macchiavelli considering what is merciful for a people,

"...I say that every prince ought to desire to be considered clement and not cruel. Nevertheless he ought to take care not to misuse this clemency. Cesare Borgia was considered cruel; notwithstanding, his cruelty reconciled the Romagna, unified it, and restored it to peace and loyalty. And if this be rightly considered, he will be seen to have been much more merciful than the Florentine people, who, to avoid a reputation for cruelty, permitted Pistoia to be destroyed. Therefore a prince, so long as he keeps his subjects united and loyal, ought not to mind the reproach of cruelty; because with a few examples he will be more merciful than those who, through too much mercy, allow disorders to arise, from which follow murders or robberies; for these are wont to injure the whole people, whilst those executions which originate with a prince offend the individual only."

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