How long can Europe go on on its present course? For some years now, comemntators and policymakers, originally in the United States, have been predicting the irreversible decay of europe. Desacralisation, depopulation, and economic decline are usually linked to a perceived general crisis of welfare and of morals in the face of a muslim 'threat'. These factors are seen as conspiring to undermine the continent and its system of government and society. Key to this analysis is the idea that european states operate on the basis of appeasement and keynesian welfarism, and have failed to demonstrate the dynamism of the american and asian economies. Ageing, childless europeans are conditioned to expect welfare for which they have not paid, and given that there is no replacement population, the inevitable outcome will be a future as dhimmis in an expanded muslim immigrant sodality. What on earth has happened that such fear, anger and misapprehension have come to characterise perceptions...
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