Keir Starmer's successor, whoever that will be, will fail just like he did.
The United Kingdom is ungovernable at this point because the elected government no longer controls the state apparatus. The unholy blob that Tony Blair constructed runs everything, and they answer to no one. Starmer himself literally said that he pulls a lever and nothing happens. His replacement will find those levers still do nothing.
Without a massive purge of the NGOs, the Quangos, the courts, the civil service, and the administrative state, changing Prime Ministers will do about as much good as swapping out a kid's steering-wheel toy in a car that's hurdling off a cliff.
Obama stood at his own presidential center and told the crowd the Founders “fell terribly short” on slavery while leaving the rest of the story on the cutting room floor.
He didn’t mention that slavery wasn’t some American invention. It was practiced for thousands of years across every continent. He didn’t mention that white men ... and 360,000 Union soldiers who mostly never owned slaves ... were the ones who actually ended it here through a brutal civil war.
He also didn’t mention what Thomas Sowell has documented for decades: more whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than Blacks were brought to the United States and the 13 colonies combined.
At least a million Europeans were enslaved by North African Muslim pirates between 1500 and 1800 alone, with some still being sold on auction blocks in Egypt years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
And while we’re on the subject of modern reality, the Global Slavery Index reported roughly 7 million people living in modern slavery in Africa in 2021 ... about 5.2 per 1,000 people. That’s not ancient history. That’s right now.
So why is the only acceptable story the one where America is uniquely and permanently stained, while the far larger, longer, and ongoing global record gets memory-holed the second it complicates the narrative?
If the goal was actually historical honesty instead of selective guilt, wouldn’t the full picture be required instead of the same truncated sermon?
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