The Migrants of Calais: Winner and Losers in the Global Economy - The Weekly Standard

I would have submitted this myself, but I wasn't sure it belonged here. It's excellent, but if you're impatient, the first half can be skipped: scroll down to "The Middle Class Evicted". Caldwell's analysis of France is also similar to Murray's analysis of America.

Here's a frightening thought experiment: if the Frenchmen of 1941 were informed exactly what would become of their country after seventy years of Allied rule, would they become more or less supportive of the Vichy regime? Did the Resistance fight so that their country could be colonized by Muslims instead of Germans? If your answers to those questions are the same as mine, then it's hard to escape the conclusion that the French have been betrayed, enormously so.

Unfortunately, Caldwell and even Murray are far too desirous of respectability to articulate the healthy feelings of betrayal, hatred, and rage that these disastrous inflictions should conjure (we have these emotions for a reason), and to propose the drastic measures that are necessary to reverse them. As it is all too often with conservatives, they might be brave enough to notice the problems, but not brave enough to solve them.

Who will stand up for the beleaguered masses? Certainly not the Left, which appears to be willfully incognizant of the fact that their xenophilia aligns perfectly with the desires of the transnational capitalist class, which has no reservations about invoking the same progressive justifications for "diversity". I was recently banned from /r/socialism for pointing out that by opposing any opposition to neoliberalism that might be tainted by nationalism (at least, First World nationalisms), the Left is in effect protecting neoliberalism.

Conservatives, especially of the "invade the world, invite the world" tendency, are often no less hostile to nationalism. How exactly free trade, global democracy, and immigration came to be identified with conservatism is beyond me.

The only complete and authentic opposition to the dominant ideology is to be found, as expected, in the most hated and marginalized sector of opinion.

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