By Taki Theodoracopulos
Taki's Magazine
January 12, 2026
One of the cofounders of The American Conservative, the great Pat Buchanan, once asked what is probably the most important question about the future of this country of ours: "Can a civilization survive both low fertility and mass immigration from alien cultures?" The answer of course is obvious, and one only has to look across the ocean to Britain, where white Brits are predicted to become a minority in London and Manchester within 25 years.
Societies are like living organisms that go through stages of birth, maturity, and inevitable decline. Oswald Spengler was the German philosopher of decline, and he correctly predicted today's Europe. He blamed it not on war-that definitely hastened it-but on stagnation and cultural exhaustion. Personally I gave up on Europe long ago, especially when Angela Merkel invited one and a half million uneducated young Muslim males from the Middle East to move in permanently, but it's America that is on my mind. The 10, 12, or perhaps 20 million illegal immigrants that Biden let in are dismissed by subversive organizations such as The New York Times and Newhouse-owned magazines, but I happen to care about this country.
Spengler knew the Prussian character, which was the prioritization of the collective over individual interests. He could have been speaking about long-ago Sparta, my mother's birthplace, and its awesome reputation for xenophobia, bravery, and self-sacrifice. But try to discuss, let alone impose, such virtues as order and discipline in today's United States, and see how far you get before the words "Nazi" and "fascist" are attached forever to your name. Racism is a crime far worse than murder or matricide, at least according to the PC lobby.
"The United States is much too large for direct democracy to work."
Every four years a lot of publicity-seekers mostly employed in the entertainment industry threaten to leave the U.S., but almost none of them ever do. One who did was an ugly fatso female comedian who moved to Ireland, which I thought was very good news, for America, that is. But back to Spengler and decline. The philosopher's legacy had many followers. His skepticism toward democracy matched that of his views on the need for a stronger, nationalistic character. In fact he rejected democratic government in favor of authoritarianism.
Would such an authoritarian government ever be accepted in these here United States ? Not until a majority realize the spiritual exhaustion and cultural collapse of this nation. Leftist organizations such as the ADL have more influence than all counterparts on the right put together. Under the guise of combating anti-Semitism, the ADL has spied on, harassed, and smeared any organization deemed right-wing, and its influence keeps rising.
Added to the subversive media and entertainment industries, you now have an effort by woke Ivy League universities to destroy the teaching of history in favor of left-wing ideology, to the extent they are discriminating against white males in favor of less qualified females. All I can say is if the Greeks put Socrates to death for the poor excuse of corrupting youth, I wonder what these Harvard types deserve?
In my not-so-humble opinion, direct democracy only works in small states, like the city-states of ancient Greece, or in today's microstates like Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, even Monaco, all three reigned over by princes. The United States is much too large for direct democracy to work. What is good for an Alabaman farmer is perhaps not so good for a New York stockbroker. The recent mega-theft of billions by Somalis right in the middle of a state once a stronghold of German and Scandinavian law-abiding folk illustrates, to me at least, why democracy does not work. Two wise men, both Brits, Chesterton and Belloc, saw the American system as a "sham game played by the two front benches for the purpose of determining which one would control the government at any given moment." They could have been talking about both our Congress and the House of Commons.
So, if democracy does not work, what is the solution ? Dictatorship ? Certainly not; name me one dictatorship that worked, starting with those in Russia and Central Europe, not to mention Latin America. Benign authoritarianism à la those in Spain and Portugal did work, as does the strong Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán at present. The Hungarian head is smeared nonstop by the European and American media, as well as those crooks in Brussels, because he has sealed his country against illegal immigrants. What we need over here is more Europeans like Viktor, and less Africans like those nice Minnesota Somalis.
This article was originally published on Taki's Magazine.