By John Zmirak, The Stream, August 15, 2024
John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 10 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.
It Can’t Happen Here. That was the title of a fiercely partisan novel by socialist writer Sinclair Lewis which I wolfed down as a teenager. That was a few years back, but the story has stayed with me: the coming of dictatorship in a once-free, English-speaking country, masked by happy slogans and “social justice” mandates.
That novel comes to my mind as I read, through tears, about what’s happening to our mother country, from which we inherited all our institutions of liberty.
Christian evangelist Jamie Bambrick lays it out in heartbreaking detail. The government of the United Kingdom, come to power through an election that doesn’t reflect popular opinion, is now waging a war against the majority population, cynically using immigrants from hostile Muslim cultures to terrorize native Britons — especially the beaten-down, forgotten working class. Citizens are going to jail for months and years for silently watching protests, or daring to post on social media about violent migrant crime. …