This challenge comes from Dr. Peter McCullough:
"Which of the following do you believe you would have done if, like Thomas Jefferson, you inherited upon your father’s death in 1757 a plantation and thirty slaves?
1). Offered your liberated slaves room and board, with no obligation to perform any work, for the rest of their lives?
2). Offered a daily wage in return for maintaining their occupations as plantation laborers?
3). Paid for their transportation to Africa?
4). Found them jobs as laborers working in the growing cities of the colonies?
5). Exhorted them to “Go West, young man and woman,” and seek their fortunes on the frontier?"
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo