France Sliding toward Barbarity and Chaos :: Gatestone Institute

In an apparent attempt to explain this odd outcome, many commentators say that the French population now expects the downfall of their country. They quote surveys, carried out year after year, which show that the French population is the world’s most pessimistic. An overwhelming majority of French people evidently think the future will be worse than the present. A poll published in April 2022 states that 77% of French people are certain that the country will not overcome the present economic and social crisis; a poll published in September 2022 show that 67% of French people think that the global situation will worsen due to climate change and that the planet has no future. In L’archipel français (“The French Archipelago”), published in 2019, sociologist Jérome Fourquet writes of a French “collective nervous breakdown” and the “crumbling” of French society. He notes that the religious and historical moorings of the French people are disappearing: churches are empty, important moments in the country’s history are no longer taught in schools. He adds that France’s Muslim population, on the contrary, maintains its culture, customs and traditions, assimilates into French society less and less, and appears more and more filled with contempt and hatred for France, which many of them accuse of colonizing the Muslim world and exploiting Muslim workers.

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This outlet is one I consider pretty hard right, but it sounds like the French are really in trouble. But unlike France, I consider our even illegal immigrants — and I know a lot of people will disagree with me — a net benefit. Most of them are from Mexico, Guatemala and other Central and South American countries. Quite a few of them are refugees from communism. Not surprisingly, these are the ones the Biden administration wants to keep out. Go figure. All of them come to the US to seek a better life and to work. Not all them, of course, but most.

Human trafficking, drug importation, and other border crimes are totally out of control and that must change, of course. We need to get our border under control, but part of US policy going forward should be a robust immigration policy that allows many immigrants to come here. It’s the same way my Irish and English ancestors got here, the Irish particularly not receiving what you would call a warm welcome, unless you count the burning crosses that welcomed them in Boise. Still trying to figure out where the white privilege was in that. Be that as it may, if we can get immigration policy to be more than just flinging open the gates and saying, C’mon in, I think we can build a remarkable collection of people, most of whom were willing to risk their lives and usually meager fortunes just to get here. The idea that illegal immigration is building a gigantic client class of perpetual Democratic voters will turn out to be, I’ll hazard, though I could be wrong, a gigantic miscalculation.