The question looming on many citizens’ minds is gaining traction with every ill-conceived decision made by the European Union. The EU received 1.2 million asylum requests in 2015 alone, and despite a huge backlash and the consequential assent of extremist groups, has decided to move along with its plans to fuse the united states of Europe.

At this point, Brexit seems inexorable, and the leave side is gaining major support despite all the fear mongering. This is partly because unelected European officials conveniently decided to tie trade with the free movement of people within the EU, effectively abolishing border controls and national sovereignty.

Compounding the problem is the dishonest portrayal of centre-nationalist parties as ‘far right’. Enforcing national sovereignty and border control is not an extremist principle. Safeguarding your own people from foreign invasion is not an extremist principle. Placing the well-being of your native population above all else is not an extremist principle.

But the regressive left would have us believe that these somehow equate to fascism. Looks like someone’s skipped their history class.

The truth is that no amount of labelling or wishful thinking is going to make this problem go away. If the powers that be keep rolling down the path of least resistance, our worst nightmare, that is actual fascism, will rise to face this threat. We already see hundreds of no-go zone ghettos all over Europe, not to mention the eruption of violent clashes between ethnic groups. Now European leaders are sealing our fate by advancing their plans to bring Turkey into the EU. Have we completely lost our minds?

The idea that masses of people from completely disparate cultures and ethnicities can integrate with our way of life is just wishful thinking of the highest order. When you indiscriminately import millions of people from countries that fundamentally function at a sub-optimal level, you will inadvertently get an intelligence regression to the mean of the country of origin.

The peak of western prosperity has already come and gone, and we must come to terms with this if we are to survive

There is a reason why homogenous societies exist, and it’s not because of ultra-nationalism, or geographic impediments, but because of the social cohesion inherent in ethnic homogeneity. Mother Nature has yet to transcend these incompatibilities, and pretending they don’t exist only exacerbates things further.

Our civilisation has been lost in idealism for so long that empirical data is finally clawing it back to reality. The evidence for ethnocentric incompatibilities is so overwhelming one would be a fool to ignore it. Two subspecies never continue to inhabit the same space for very long when the mean intelligence of either group is beneath a certain threshold, and this is observable in every multicultural society.

The denial of immediate reality is part of the genius of our species that enables us to cope with terrible odds and still emerge successful. Regrettably, platonic abstraction has driven us towards the careful selection of reality whereby we’ve managed to delude ourselves into believing that the problem doesn’t even exist, or worse yet, that the West is the root of all evil.

In order for us to get out of this confounding situation, we must drag our citizens back into the real world with hard truths and evidence, no matter how much they kick and scream. The peak of western prosperity has already come and gone, and we must come to terms with this if we are to survive in a world of constant competition for resources.

Should we fail to subvert this suicidal behaviour, and begin a pragmatic approach towards respecting and maintaining individual nation’s sovereignty, then we will have to account for what comes after the civil unrest currently sweeping across Europe.

Sadly, endless appeasement foreshadows catastrophe. If we take a peek through the gory lens of history, we can easily draw parallels as to what our current situation will look like in the near future. One of many appropriate examples dates back to when the late Roman Empire allowed northern barbaric factions to enter its lands in a bid for appeasement, which we know did not end well for the Romans.

History is filled with examples, yet humans seem to perpetually deny the existence of their own undoing until the very last moment, by which time it may be too late.

Telling people what they do not want to hear is not easy, but honesty is most valuable when it is least satiated.

Christopher Attard is a University student studying psychology.

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