Real danger of the immigrants
Argues immigrants only threaten democracies that lack strong constitutional rights protections, contrasting US assimilation with European preferential treatment, which it says teaches newcomers to demand privileges.
Argues immigrants only threaten democracies that lack strong constitutional rights protections, contrasting US assimilation with European preferential treatment, which it says teaches newcomers to demand privileges.
The article argues that if the state treats citizens as too incompetent to vote without tests, the legitimacy of elected governments collapses into either paternalism or a broken democracy.
Western governments increasingly adopt Chinese-style surveillance and control, which the author argues validates the CCP’s model and erodes universal human rights, making the free world authoritarian in practice rather than in name.
Argues that news behind a paywall is not journalism but a for-profit product, and proposes financially independent, transparently funded media as the only way to preserve open public access.
Argues that abstaining from rigged elections serves authoritarian regimes, and urges voters to show up anyway, invalidate ballots when no candidate represents them, and publicly demand systemic electoral reform.