sctajc

You will eat bugs, have nothing and be happy. Or become a Classic Liberal?

[sctajc @sctajc]

@spikedonline I think you mean extreme left misrule. AfD are a centre party. Very simple to understand. Spiked must be very left wing to not understand.

[sctajc @sctajc]

@AinsworthKeith Get it right! AFD is a center party. Look at their policies!

[sctajc @sctajc]

I am just traveling through Uzbekistan. The government here seems to be good

While Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan share a border and a Soviet past, their economic models and resource profiles are starkly different. Uzbekistan has a diversified, opening economy with a burgeoning private sector, whereas Turkmenistan remains an insular, state-dominated petro-state possessing the world’s fourth-largest natural gas reserves.
| Metric / Dimension | Uzbekistan | Turkmenistan |
|---|---|---|
| Oil & Gas in Exports | 3% – 6% (gold, manufacturing, and textiles dominate) | 80% – 85% (overwhelmingly pipeline gas to China) |
| Energy Strategy | Net importer in winter; focuses on domestic value-add (chemicals, GTL) | Pure mega-exporter of raw gas (Galkynysh field) |
| Petrol Price (AI-92) | ~$0.95 – $1.40/L (high reliance on imports/market pricing) | ~$0.28 – $0.43/L at official rate (heavily subsidized; fixed ~1.50 TMT/L) |
| Real GDP Growth | 6.5% – 7.7% (driven by investment, retail, fintech) | ~2.5% – 3.0% (IMF estimate; tracks Chinese gas demand) |
| Main FDI Sources | China (44%), Russia, Gulf States, EU, Türkiye | China (CNPC holds near-monopoly on foreign onshore gas contracts) |
| Service Sector | Expanding rapidly (+16%–17%); competitive private retail/fintech | Underdeveloped; heavily state-run utilities, basic trade, tightly controlled |
| Economic System | Market liberalization, WTO accession drive, currency convertibility | Strict command economy, dual exchange rates, heavy import restrictions |
1. Hydrocarbon Dependence vs. Diversification
Uzbekistan consumes nearly all of its gas domestically for electricity and industry, even importing gas from Turkmenistan to cover seasonal shortages. Turkmenistan, by contrast, is a classic mono-resource economy: hydrocarbons account for over 80% of total export receipts and more than 40% of all state budget revenues.
2. Fuel Prices and Subsidies
Uzbek petrol prices are among the highest in Central Asia because the government has phased out fuel subsidies and liberalized pricing, prompting drivers to switch to CNG. Turkmenistan retains massive state energy subsidies, keeping pump prices among the lowest in the world (fixed at 1.50 Turkmen manat per liter, or roughly $0.43 at the official peg and under $0.10 on the black-market exchange).
3. Foreign Investment and Trade Openness
Uzbekistan attracts varied capital—Gulf renewables giants (ACWA, Masdar), Chinese EV makers, and European industrial firms. Turkmenistan’s foreign investment is virtually synonymous with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), which financed and built the Central Asia–China gas pipeline network and developed the Bagtyyarlyk and Galkynysh gas fields.
4. The Service Sector and Private Enterprise
Uzbekistan’s service economy is dynamic, propelled by digital banking apps, ride-hailing networks, private construction, and international tourism. Turkmenistan’s service sector remains tightly constrained by state control, a heavily restricted domestic internet environment, strict visa policies that limit tourism, and limited private banking.

[sctajc @sctajc]

@OpinionistNZ But apart from the USA, Singapore and a few others, where would you move to?

[sctajc @sctajc]

@InMilei Shouldn't it be up to the people who live there to decide!

[sctajc @sctajc]

@KiwiLou2 @TaxpayersUnion You don't mean government. You mean National.

[sctajc @sctajc]

With your statement 'The U.S. does not care who holds power in Tehran — as long as their operational capacity is neutralized', I feel the US does care, but a responsible mature Iran government would be a great side affect as opposed to the key objectives you have outlined, which come first.

[Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin]

Trump’s Top 25 Achievements: The List Every Conservative Should Know and Use

Donald Trump doesn’t have an accomplishment problem. Republicans have an information problem. It’s on each of us to change that.

With the midterms coming, an astonishing number of Republican voters cannot name three things President Trump has accomplished. Which is remarkable when you consider that Donald Trump has accomplished more in a year and a half than any other president ever did in four.

Indeed, he has accomplished so much, so fast, across so many fronts that most people cannot keep up. The Enemedia buries the victories, while Republicans do an abysmal job of explaining them.

So here is the cheat sheet. It barely scratches the surface. And yet each and every item here is a game-changer, and your befuddled black-pilling friends need to know it.

This is not a list of promises. It’s a list of laws enacted, cases won, policies implemented, agreements secured, and measurable results.

You don’t have to memorize all 25. Learn five. And when somebody says Trump “hasn’t done much,” show them the receipts.

Trump Restored American Safety and Sovereignty

1. He made the border a real border again.
In a matter of months, Trump reduced illegal border crossings to their lowest level in half a century. Catch-and-release is finished. The wall is going up and even being expanded, “Remain in Mexico” is back, and the Administration reduced releases into the country by an incredible 99.9 percent.

2. He reversed mass migration.
America recorded negative net migration in 2025 for the first time in at least half a century. So far, nearly 3 million illegal aliens have left the country, whether voluntarily or involuntarily: more than 675,000 forcibly deported and the rest “self-deported.”

Many of those self-deportations were facilitated by the President’s innovative program to offer plane tickets and cash bonuses for illegals to leave, not only incentivizing good behavior but significantly reducing the cost of deportations. Citizenship and the law actually mean something again.

3. He signed the Laken Riley Act — and required detention of criminal illegal aliens.
Named for an innocent girl murdered by an illegal alien, the Laken Riley Act requires federal authorities to detain illegals arrested for theft, burglary, shoplifting, assaulting police, or any crime causing death or serious injury. It also lets states sue officials who refuse to enforce it.

Laken Riley should still be alive. This law will prevent tragedies like hers.

4. History’s biggest drop in violent crime, and the lowest violent crime rate in 126 years.
According to FBI data, violent crime in America dropped an incredible 9.7 percent in 2025 — the largest one-year decline in history. Murder fell 18.1 percent, robbery fell 18.5 percent. And America’s violent crime rate is its lowest since 1900.

This is what happens when you put the National Guard on the streets in crime-ridden blue cities: fewer victims, safer streets, and better futures for America’s poorest.

Trump Launched an American Industrial Supercycle

5. He made the 2017 tax cuts permanent…and better.
The One Big Beautiful Bill locked in the largest tax cut in modern history, including the doubled standard deduction, the expanded Child Tax Credit, and 100 percent expensing for factories and equipment. It also delivered No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, an abolition of most taxes on Social Security benefits, and major relief for seniors.

Every Democrat voted no. With the 2017 act set to expire in December 2025, that would have resulted in the largest tax hike in American history.

6. He repealed 129 regulations for every new one.
In fiscal 2025, federal agencies finalized 646 deregulatory actions and just five regulatory actions: 129-to-1, and in nearly every case, the “one” was to repeal the others! OIRA says the savings exceeded those of Trump’s entire first term. That is more freedom, lower costs, and less bureaucratic sabotage.

Of these, the crown jewel was the repeal of Obama’s 2009 “Endangerment Finding”, the legal foundation for the Green New Scam’s vehicle mandates. EPA calls it the largest deregulatory action in American history and estimates that by itself, it will save Americans more than $1.3 trillion. Trump also killed the federal EV mandate, restored Americans’ freedom to buy the cars and trucks they actually want, and even eliminated the incentives behind the almost universally hated start-stop button.

7. He secured $18 trillion in announced investment commitments.
That’s nearly two-thirds the size of the entire American economy, building American factories, chip plants, data centers, energy projects, steel mills, shipyards, and supply chains employing American workers. Apple, Meta, NVIDIA, Micron, Hyundai, U.S. Steel, Ford, Taiwan Semiconductor, and many corporations and sovereign wealth funds are betting big on Trump’s America.

No President has ever done anything remotely like it. And it’s just getting started.

8. He made “reshoring” and “reindustrialization” real, not a slogan.
Ford is moving Lincoln production out of China. Toyota is shifting Tacoma production from Mexico to Texas. GM, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and others are expanding U.S. production. The capital equipment pouring into the country is the machinery that’s building the growing boom.

9. He replaced lopsided trade deals with balanced, reciprocal trade.
Trump used tariffs as leverage to reverse 80 years of lopsided trade deals that favored everyone but America, and to win new or improved agreements with trading partners accounting for more than half of global GDP. Those agreements open foreign markets, attack non-tariff barriers, defend strategic industries, and make it more profitable to build in America than to export American jobs.

10. He shifted global energy dominance from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of America.
Once the world’s largest energy importer — “exporting” $700 billion a year to our enemies — America now outproduces Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. The U.S. is also setting new records in oil, natural gas, and LNG exports, becoming the first country ever to export more than 100 million metric tons of LNG in a year.

Trump also opened land, accelerated permits, expanded pipelines and export terminals, and made American energy a tool for prosperity and peace.

11. After four decades of nuclear paralysis, Trump brought five new reactors online in a single year.
For more than 40 years, not one new privately developed non-light-water reactor reached criticality in America. Trump ordered at least three by July 4, 2026. DOE delivered four by the deadline, then a fifth just one month later.

Decades of zero. One Trump summer: five. That is a genuine nuclear renaissance.

Trump Made Elections Matter Again

12. He broke the Deep State’s power to defy the elected branches.
In Trump v. Slaughter, the Supreme Court ruled for the first time in 90 years that Article 2, Section 1 is still part of the Constitution: the President may fire subordinate officials in the executive branch, overturning the 1935 precedent that insulated “independent” agencies from voters’ control.

Ever wonder why elections often seem to change nothing? How about one President and 5,000 political appointees vs. 2.8 million unfireable, unaccountable bureaucrats? THAT is the “Deep State”.

Trump then made that victory real. For the first time in a century, all policy-making bureaucrats can now be fired for misconduct, incompetence, or defying lawful directives. The permanent bureaucracy no longer gets to veto the voters.

13. He ended nationwide injunction abuse.
In Trump v. CASA, the Supreme Court sharply limited nationwide injunctions. A single, local, district judge should not be able to block a national policy for everyone, everywhere; and yet that’s exactly what they’ve done, nonstop, ever since Trump (and only Trump) took office in 2017.

In restricting that unconstitutional power, the Court kneecapped the Black Robe Bureaucracy’s favorite tool of unlawful judicial supremacy.

14. He shut down USAID as a left-wing slush fund and shadow government.
USAID had become a taxpayer-funded machine for exporting abortion, gender ideology, censorship, and left-wing politics. It had a bigger budget than the CIA and the State Department combined, absolutely no accountability whatsoever, and a penchant for overthrowing governments.

Trump terminated it — completely — and moved real humanitarian aid under the State Department. Immediately, seven socialist Latin American governments lost re-election. Coincidence?

15. He shrank Federal employment to its lowest level in 60 years.
From a high under Biden, the federal workforce is now its smallest since 1966. Workforce reductions, agency closures, and spending cancellations mean fewer bureaucrats paid to resist the voters.

What’s more, when Biden left office, 94 percent of federal employees “worked” from home. The Trump administration cracked down: as Elon Musk put it, “you can work from the office or you can pretend to work somewhere else.”

16. He expelled DEI from the federal government.
Trump eliminated federal DEI offices and barred race- and sex-based preferences across the executive branch. Government hiring and contracting are returning to merit and equality under the law, ending the grotesque Democrat idea that “fighting discrimination” requires the federal government to discriminate.

He Defended Faith and Family

17. He delivered sweeping pro-life reform.
In his first term, Trump delivered the judges that overturned the abominable Roe v. Wade. Hardly anyone believed it could be done, or that Trump would do it. But he did, and a half-century nightmare finally ended.

Since returning to office, Trump has enforced the Hyde Amendment prohibiting the use of federal funds to pay for abortions, reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy prohibiting federal funding of foreign abortions, ended federal fetal-tissue research, strengthened conscience protections, protected Medicaid from funding large abortion providers, and pardoned 23 pro-life activists prosecuted by Biden’s weaponized Justice Department.

He’s also done everything within the Executive Branch’s power to defund Planned Parenthood. It would be nice if Congress did likewise.

No President has ever done more to protect life. No one.

18. He got men out of women’s sports, and restored biological reality to federal policy.
The United States government once again officially recognizes two sexes: male and female. Trump ended federal support for the chemical and surgical gender mutilation of children, stopped taxpayer funding of such irreversible abominations, and forced more than three dozen health systems to end or suspend their programs as well.

Trump also enforced Title IX as written: women and girls deserve their own teams, trophies, scholarships, and locker rooms. The NCAA and other athletic organizations changed their rules in response. After years of Democrats doing everything they could to destroy women’s sports and ruin girls’ lives, Trump’s administration protects women and girls again.

19. He enacted America’s first nationwide school-choice program — and launched Trump Accounts.
As part of the President’s One Big Beautiful Bill, Trump enacted America’s first-ever nationwide school choice program. The new Education Freedom Tax Credit helps fund scholarships for tuition, books, and other educational costs.

That’s on top of the new Trump Accounts, which give every child a tax-advantaged stake in America’s future, including a $1,000 federal seed for eligible newborns. Parents gain power. Bureaucracies lose it. And children learn first-hand about free markets and future orientation.

20. He targeted anti-Christian bias and discrimination.
Trump created the White House Faith Office, Religious Liberty Commission, and Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias. He restored conscience protections and made clear that Christians do not surrender their First Amendment rights merely by entering public life.

He Restored Peace Through Strength and Put America First

21. He forced NATO to stop freeloading and increase defense spending by 250 percent.
For decades, wealthy European governments underfunded their militaries, effectively sending America the bill and using American taxpayers to subsidize their bloated welfare states. Trump forced NATO to replace its old two-percent-of-GDP spending target with an enormous five percent by 2035.

Allied spending is rising, American defense orders are soaring, and Europe is becoming a partner instead of a dependent.

22. He drove China out of the Caribbean.
China spent years building strategic beachheads at both ends of the Panama Canal, in Cuba, and in Maduro’s Venezuela. Trump forced Panama out of Belt and Road, expanded American security access around the Canal, and captured Maduro, who now sits in a New York jail cell awaiting trial.

Beijing’s planned encirclement of the United States collapsed. The Monroe Doctrine is back. Call it the Donroe Doctrine.

23. He brokered eight peace deals in just eight months.
In eight months, Trump brokered peace in eight conflicts spanning four continents, including wars that had gone on for as much as 40 years. It’s a record unmatched by any other President.

24. He launched and funded Golden Dome, the first-ever true missile defense for the U.S. population.
Ronald Reagan dreamed of making nuclear missiles obsolete through his Strategic Defense Initiative. Today, Trump is actually building it: a layered homeland shield with space-based sensors and interceptors, conventional defenses, and new technologies including microwave systems to destroy drone swarms and directed-energy weapons (yes, lasers) that can replace an $11 million missile with $2 of electricity.

Congress has funded the initial $25 billion, with far more on the way once it passes the NDAA this fall. Better a shield than a sword.

25. He restored the warrior ethos — and reversed the recruiting crisis.
After years of missed targets under Biden, every active military component met or exceeded its 2025 recruiting goal. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refocused the newly renamed Department of War on actually winning wars, while pouring resources into shipbuilding, munitions, drones, missile defense, and America’s atrophied industrial base.

Young Americans once again believe their Commander-in-Chief is worth serving. And they’re showing up en masse.

Now Act Like It Matters

Those are not tweets or campaign promises. They are changes in law, power, investment, sovereignty, culture, and the structure of the Republic itself. And they’re just the top 25: I could give you hundreds more.

Midterms are turnout elections. We do not need to convince Democrats to love Donald Trump. We need Republicans and friendly independents to understand what is at stake — and to show up.

And let’s be clear. When you say (as some of you will) “the Republicans need to do a good enough job telling this story”, you’re pointing at yourself. You are “the Republicans.” The Democrats don’t rely exclusively on their elected officials to tell their story: everyone from their media lackeys to their lowest-level supporters are constantly spreading their “news”, whatever that “news” happens to be.

Today’s conservatives have more ability to find whatever you want to know than any group of people in human history, yet half of them couldn’t name any of the accomplishments in this essay, and if they were to read it, they would just complain that something else they wanted hasn’t happened fast enough to suit them.

This is called “black-pilling.” It’s a loser mindset, and if you engage in it, you deserve to lose: horribly, painfully, personally. And guess what: you will, unless people who are serious step up to save you. Which is frankly pathetic, but for the rest of our sakes, necessary.

So tell people our story. Donald Trump is delivering great things, whether or not heaven on earth has broken out quite yet. Do the work, send the team he needs to Washington to finish the job, and get ready for 2028 afterward.

Take the time to learn at least five of these victories. Share this list with someone who needs it. And vote as though the most consequential Presidency in modern history depends on what you do.

Because it does.

(Oh, and those receipts? Follow the link in my bio to get them all.)

[sctajc @sctajc]

I agree that the prosperity was for the whites and the tribal leaders. For the third of the tribes who were slaves, life was appalling. As it always is for slaves. Remember the word 'slave' comes from Slav, the white people in Northern Europe etc that Arabs made into slaves. And slavery was the norm in all societies until early in the 1800s when the UK outlawed slave trading. The first country in the world to do so.

[sctajc @sctajc]

@mamaar007 @PeterWessberg Slavery was was what they were doing to themselves mostly.

The colonial period was there only time of prosperity.

[sctajc @sctajc]

@InMilei @JMilei @jmilei_english Remove women with three or more children from every having to pay income tax for the rest of their lives

[sctajc @sctajc]

@miaw_lkrr @TheIranWatcher China!

[sctajc @sctajc]

@LesleyM86542546 @PsPeterMortlock Evidence or are you just making this up?

[Hayek-Club Weimar @WeimarClub]

Sozialismus ist das perfekte Geschäftsmodell für Politiker: Er erzeugt Abhängigkeit, und Abhängigkeit erzeugt Wähler. Wer vom Staat lebt – durch Transferleistungen, Subventionen, „soziale“ Absicherung, planwirtschaftliche Privilegien – wählt denjenigen, der die Hähne aufdreht. Der Politiker wird zum Versorger, der Bürger zum Klienten. Je größer die Abhängigkeit, desto größer die Macht. Deshalb lieben sie ihn. Nicht aus Ideologie, sondern aus nacktem Eigeninteresse.

Kapitalismus hingegen ist für die politische Klasse eine existenzielle Bedrohung. Er belohnt Eigenverantwortung, Risiko, Innovation und private Initiative. Er macht Menschen unabhängig vom Staat – und damit unkontrollierbar. Wer seinen Lebensunterhalt selbst verdient, seine Entscheidungen selbst trifft und seinen Wohlstand selbst schafft, braucht keine Gönner in Berlin, Brüssel oder sonstwo.

Jede Regulierung, die „den Markt zähmen“ soll, ist in Wahrheit ein Instrument, um Wettbewerb zu ersticken und etablierte Interessen zu schützen. Der freie Markt braucht keinen Politiker als Mittler. Der Politiker braucht den freien Markt als Feindbild.

Deshalb die ewige Rhetorik: Kapitalismus wird als „gierig“, „ungerecht“, „unsozial“ gebrandmarkt – während der Staat, der mit Gewalt monopolisiert, umverteilt und kontrolliert, als moralische Instanz auftritt. Es ist die älteste Strategie der Macht: die Abhängigkeit als Tugend verkaufen und die Unabhängigkeit als Gefahr.

Der Staat hat kein Interesse an freien Menschen. Er hat Interesse an Untertanen, die ihm dankbar sind. Sozialismus liefert die Untertanen. Kapitalismus liefert die Freien.

#FreiheitstattKnechtschaft #SteuernsindRaub #Eigentum #Freiheit #ParasitenwegmitEuremZwang

[NZ and the MRNA @HopeRising19]

THE MOST SHOCKING POINTS OF THE USA PFIZER mRNA CONTRACT, SIGNED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE...

1. $1.95 billion, no competitive bidding.

2. Taxpayers waived ALL intellectual property rights.
Pfizer keeps every invention and every piece of data. The government got zero license to the technology it paid

3. TOTAL LEGAL IMMUNITY Pfizer is declared a "Covered Person" under the PREP Act, granting blanket immunity from suit and liability. The government contractually required the product only be used where Pfizer can't be sued.

4. Pfizer has NO PERFORMANCE LIABILITY.
The contract says Pfizer has no liability for failing to get FDA approval on schedule—and no liability for failing to deliver doses on time.

5. THE GOVT CAN'T STOP THE WORK. Section 11.2(b) strips the government of its normal stop-work authority entirely. Once signed, the money flows no matter what.

6. A 500-MILLION DOSE NO BID FOLLOW ON.
A "successful prototype" triggers a non-competitive production contract for up to 500M additional doses "without the use of competitive procedures."

7. The government CAN'T RESELL what it bought. Section 4.0: the government "will not resell any of the deliverables to any third party." Taxpayers paid for it; Pfizer still controls it.

9. No meaningful audit rights. Pfizer's financial records aren't auditable until after funding, and Pfizer can insist on a third-party audit firm of its own choosing.

The bottom line:

ALL THE RISK WAS SOCIALIZED (THE PEOPLE)

ALL THE PROFIT WAS PRIVATIZED (#bigpharma)

The government was contractually barred from stopping it, auditing it, or even licensing what it paid for.

https://t.co/nJruiKoMvo

Screenshot: 10 years confidentiality of actual signed contract

[sctajc @sctajc]

Petition to stop the early release from jail of PC Andrew Harper's killers https://t.co/k2M7D4iTy0

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The utopia that lied. Here's the truth...

@prageru

[JC @Jim_W_C]

@TaxpayersUnion Hungary’s approach is more interesting. Mothers with three children have been exempt from personal income tax for life since October 2025, and exemptions for mothers with two children are being phased in.

[sctajc @sctajc]

@mangonui08 You talk but what about how you scared off any oil and gas related company. Talk is cheep. Action not so.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Mamdani Is The Product, Not The Exception.

The student debt crisis. The rise of radical socialism. The mobs chanting for revolution on our streets. These are not accidents of an education system gone astray. They are the product the system was built, over decades, to manufacture.

Investor and podcaster David Friedberg argues that student debt fuels political radicalism. No jobs, six-figure loans: no wonder graduates are angry. But that's incomplete. Wage stagnation explains frustration. It doesn't explain why that frustration lands on capitalism and colonialism rather than planning laws or interest rates. That direction is taught.

Take Zohran Mamdani. His family fled Uganda in the 1990s to escape tyranny. They arrived in America, a nation built on opportunity and safety, a country that, for all its flaws, gave them a life unimaginable back home. He went to university. He came out the other side not grateful for that sanctuary but hostile to it, a fully formed socialist activist armed with a grievance degree. In January this year he was sworn in as mayor of New York City. The theory is no longer academic. It governs eight million people.

And Mamdani is not an outlier. The Democratic Socialists of America is fielding its largest congressional delegation in its history. Its base skews toward graduates in the social sciences and "studies" programmes rather than the hard sciences or vocational fields.

The infrastructure behind that pattern is measurable. A Heritage Foundation analysis of 65 major universities found that DEI staff outnumbered tenured or tenure-track history faculty by a ratio of roughly 1.4 to 1, and outnumbered staff dedicated to legally required disability accommodations by more than four to one. That figure reflects a statement of institutional priority, made with tuition fees and taxpayer subsidy, and it did not happen by accident.

Walk through any modern campus and the curriculum follows the staffing. Gender studies. Postcolonial theory. Queer theory. African studies. Every lecture teaches the same catechism: the West is inherently evil, capitalism is oppression, history is one long crime scene, and patriarchy, white supremacy and colonialism sit at the root of every wrong. Students are no longer taught how to think. They are taught what to hate.

Mamdani's political programme, taxing "whiter neighbourhoods," racial wealth redistribution, grievance sorted by identity, did not spring from nowhere. It was assembled in the classroom, then carried into office.

Some will say this gets the causation backwards, that graduates arrive already primed by economic hardship and universities merely give that anger a vocabulary. But a vocabulary is not neutral. It tells the angry where to point. Two graduates with the same six-figure debt can be handed a language of class solidarity and reform, or a language of civilisational guilt and dismantling. The choice of which language they get is made in the hiring committee and the course catalogue, not in the bank statement.

Radical professors, often failed activists themselves, now control the hiring pipeline and promote only those who repeat the approved script. Dissenters are filtered out early, leaving a closed loop that renews itself, protected by tenure and paid for by the taxpayer. The graduates it produces do not stay on campus. They move into politics, media, NGOs and the boardroom, and from there they rewrite policy and reshape culture, advancing the very decline they were trained to want.

This is how nations decline: not through some sudden external shock, but through state-funded betrayal of their own young. If the West wants to survive it, it has to stop treating universities as untouchable. Defund the ideological departments. Rebuild education around truth, logic and rigour. Mamdani did not arrive in City Hall by accident. He is what the system was designed to produce, and until the design changes, he will not be the last.