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January 31st 2020 Is The Day Western Civilization Ended
Why historians will see this date as the moment that sealed the fate of the West.
Back in 2016 the inevitable consequences of requirements-free representative democracy were manifested first by Brexit and then by the election of an infantile halfwit to the White House. But just as with Hitler’s accession to power in 1936, a lot of people failed to understand the significance of these two events. The sun kept rising in next morning, people kept going to work, couples kept arguing over all the things couples always argue over. Life, it seemed, would go on much as before.
Today, January 31st 2020, is different. Today is the day Brexit officially occurs and it is also the day on which the USA ceased to be a Republic. Although the huge negative impacts of Brexit won’t be felt until after the eleven-month transition period and although most US voters will remain blithely indifferent to what’s just happened in the US Senate, the fact is that these two events are definitive indicators of the end of Western Civilization. Historians will date the final collapse and descent into horrors from today, as a matter both of convenience and of causality.
Let’s look at Brexit first, as it’s the simpler self-inflicted harm of the two.
