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Arthur Thornmill's avatar

There are many issues facing the countryside as well. We have no food security, for example, and the government is hell bent on strangling farmers even further. Our wildlife is in rapid decline and building more houses will only further habitat destruction and fragmentation, while predators like foxes and rooks decimate rare bird populations. There is a war on rural pursuits by ideological bureaucrats who are on a war path against hunting and shooting, activities that boost the rural economy and give rural people enjoyment.

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I won't make a long comment because a proper response would be an essay.

But, as someone who has lived in various Western European countries and is trilingual, I'd say we all more or less had a similar trajectory in the 20th century which essentially paved the way for modern problems. Mainly, after WW2, the rise of the welfare state and the existence of ideologically ultra-liberal (yet culturally left) boomers, which also led to full tolerance of mass immigration. Lots could be summed up as "WW1 and WW2 made Western Europeans ret*arded and complacent", and there was just fertile ground for ideological freaks and enemies (mostly in academia and the left) to pollute the well for decades, leading to the current predicament.

IMO the only medicine at this point, barring fascism (which is unlikely), is a Milei style complete destruction of any social welfare state and spending. This would bring massive hardships but to make it simple, many immigrants would leave and entrepreneurship would rise. You essentially need to "burn the boats" as a mentality in Western Europe otherwise we will continue in the gerontocracy + ethnic replacement + debt increase death spiral.

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