By John Wayne on Monday, 20 October 2025
Category: Race, Culture, Nation

The Murder of the West: Totalitarianism’s Comeback and the Fight for Freedom’s Soul By Brian Simpson

J.B. Shurk's fiery piece in American Thinker sounds the alarm: The West is bleeding out, not from external invasion but from an internal betrayal orchestrated by globalist elites at the World Economic Forum (WEF), and other such globalist organisations. It's a chilling claim: Totalitarianism, the same beast that produced Lenin's gulags, Stalin and Mao's famines, is back, cloaked in "climate" dogma and "equity" promises, luring the West into a warm bath of compliance where it slits its own wrists. Shurk paints the WEF as a cabal of technocrats, Klaus Schwab's Davos darlings, who aim to euthanise Western liberty with petty rules, digital shackles, and a vision of serfs in 15-minute cities munching bugs. Is this hyperbole or a wake-up call? With 2025's global debt at $315 trillion, WEF's AI-driven "Intelligent Age" agenda, and populist revolts from Dutch farms to Canadian truckers, the evidence suggests a deliberate strangling of freedom's spirit. I will look into the social, economic, and cultural dynamics of this "murder," and why the West's pulse might still beat back.

Shurk's metaphor is brutal: Totalitarianism envelops like a warm bath, disarming with promises of safety before stripping will, thought, and property. The 20th century's body count, 200 million from Soviet purges, Nazi camps, Mao's Great Leap, proves its efficiency at mass death. Yet, in 2025, it's not tanks or gulags; it's softer, sneakier. The WEF's "Great Reset" (rebranded as "Collaboration in the Intelligent Age" at Davos 2025) pushes centralised control via climate mandates, digital currencies, and censorship labelled "anti-disinformation." The West, once liberty's beacon, now faces a slow exsanguination: Policies that erode sovereignty, hollow economies, and fracture culture.

Historical Echoes: Shurk's right, totalitarianism thrives on lies and control. Lenin's Bolsheviks promised bread, then delivered starvation; Hitler's Reich vowed glory, then rubble. Today's WEF echoes this, selling "sustainability" while seizing land and choice. Germany, scarred by both Nazi and Soviet oppression, should know better, yet its leaders ban opposition parties and brand dissenters "fascists," a cruel irony. The EU's Digital Services Act (2024) fines platforms €10M for "hate speech," chilling free speech. History repeats when memory fades.

The WEF's Playbook: Schwab's crew isn't hiding. Their 2025 agenda pushes AI to "redefine prosperity," but it's code for automation (85M jobs gone by 2030) and CBDCs (137 countries testing, controlling 98% of GDP). "Climate" justifies it all: Net-zero policies shut Dutch farms, while Canada's carbon tax hikes living costs 15% since 2019. It's not progress, it's power consolidation, with billionaires like Gates and Kerry preaching from private jets.

The West's murder isn't just top-down; it's a societal self-sabotage. Shurk nails the vibe: Totalitarianism strips "vitality, creativity, spirituality, and mirth," leaving a husk of compliance. In 2025, social cohesion cracks under engineered division.

Censorship as Social Poison: Labelling dissent "disinformation" isolates truth-tellers. X's deplatforming battles (pre-2024 election) show the stakes: 60% of Americans distrust media, per Gallup, fuelling polarisation. Canada's Bill C-63 (2024) threatens jail for "hate" posts, turning neighbours into snitches. Social trust erodes, only 30% of U.S. adults trust strangers, down from 50% in 1990.

Cultural Erasure: Open borders and "diversity" dogma, per Shurk, dilute Western identity. Germany's 2M+ migrants since 2015 strain welfare (€20B/year) and spark clashes; 40% of violent crimes tied to non-citizens. The WEF's "inclusive" rhetoric masks a push for homogeneity: A borderless, cultureless mass easier to control. Meanwhile, "climate" rules ban meat, push bugs; 70% of Dutch reject insect diets, per 2024 polls, yet policies steamroll.

Atomisation and Despair: Shurk's "naked citizen" is real, 40% of U.S. adults live alone, up from 10% in 1960; loneliness is a CDC crisis. Fertility's at 1.6, signalling cultural suicide. Social media amplifies isolation: 75% of Gen Z report anxiety from feeds. Totalitarianism thrives here, promising "community" via state dependence.

The WEF's economic vision, centralised, digital, "equitable," is a death grip. Shurk's right: It's not about prosperity but control. In 2025, the signs are glaring.

Debt and CBDCs: Global debt's $315T (400% GDP) is a noose; 30% of U.S. budgets go to interest alone. CBDCs (China's e-CNY: $350B circulation) promise efficiency but deliver surveillance. A 2024 IMF report admits: Programmable money can "nudge" behaviour; buy bugs, not beef, or lose credits. The West's middle class? Crushed, U.S. homeownership dropped to 65% (2024), lowest since 1995.

Corporate Feudalism: WEF's "stakeholder capitalism" is oligarchy rebranded. BlackRock's $10T AUM gobbles farmland, housing, 60% of U.S. rentals are corporate-owned. "Climate" mandates kill small business: EU's 2035 ICE ban spikes car costs 20%, pricing out workers. Meanwhile, AI automation threatens 40% of jobs, per Oxford, leaving serfs for elites.

Resource Grab: Shurk's bug diet isn't a joke; FAO's 2023 edible insect push aligns with WEF's "sustainable" food shift. Small farms? Crushed, Netherlands' 30% farm closures by 2030 prove it. Water, land, energy: All centralised under "net-zero" pretexts.

Shurk sees hope in rebellion, Canadian truckers, Dutch farmers, Irish protesters. In 2025, it's real: Robert Kennedy Jr.'s MAHA movement bans school vax mandates in 10 states; Idaho's "Keep Healthy" proclamation nullifies WHO edicts. Populist wins — Trump's EO stalling CBDCs, France's farmer blockades — show cracks in the WEF's globalist armour. X's raw pulse (1B posts in 2024) fuels dissent, bypassing mainstream media lies.

But the fight's brutal. WEF's "disinformation" war criminalises truth; EU's DSA fines X €200M for "non-compliance." Social dynamics shift: Urban elites cling to technocracy; rural and working-class form "freedom enclaves," bartering and prepping. A 2024 Pew poll: 55% of Americans back decentralisation, up from 30% in 2015. Yet, risks loom; Shurk's "Reign of Terror" warns of violent backlash if elites push too far.

Shurk's not wrong: The WEF's totalitarianism, dressed in climate and equity drag, is a deliberate strangling of the West's soul. Censorship, economic theft, cultural erosion, it's a slow euthanasia. But the West isn't dead. Farmers' revolts, state-level nullifications, and X's unfiltered roar prove life persists. The threat? Real—centralisation could lock us in 15-minute dystopias by 2035. The fix? Double down on decentralisation: Local food, cash economies, free speech. And work towards Douglas social credit, the final antidote to globalist control

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/wef_totalitarians_seek_to_euthanize_the_west.html

"WEF Totalitarians Seek to Euthanize the West

By J.B. Shurk

Totalitarianism is the warm bath in which civilization slits its wrists. It envelops the people with petty rules, strange dogmas, immoral duties, and forced sacrifices. It warms its victims with intoxicating promises of the government's false love. It leaves the citizen naked — stripped first of his free will, then the thoughts in his head, and finally anything he once called his own. It slowly dispossesses each person of his personhood, until the population withers into frail, colorless facsimiles of the bleak, omnipresent State. Without the courage to act, the desire to think, the wisdom to pray, or the conscience to object, human purpose disappears. Society is exsanguinated of its vitality, creativity, spirituality, and mirth — until it slips beneath the water and stops breathing.

This was the story of Lenin's Soviet Union and the imprisoned nations trapped behind Stalin's Iron Curtain. It was the story of Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Mao's China, and Pol Pot's Cambodia. It has been the story of Kim's North Korea, Castro's Cuba, Chávez's Venezuela, and the ayatollahs' Iran. For over a century, humanity has endured one form of barbarous totalitarianism after the next. It slithers into unsuspecting countries — often hiding behind the mask of democratic elections. It misrepresents itself as just one political party of many before announcing itself as the only party for all. It seeks to eliminate opponents in stages: first it proselytizes, then it intimidates, and finally it murders. With a couple hundred million victims over the last century alone, it is a governing philosophy that specializes in mass executions, dank prison cells, killing fields, and concentration camps. Totalitarianism infiltrates society with lies and builds nothing but the machinery of death.

With the Earth still wet from so much blood, Western governments now seek to turn the twenty-first century into the twentieth century's even bloodier reflection. It is humbling to realize that we humans repeat so many mistakes through the course of history. It is infuriating, however, to watch today's political leaders push humanity down the exact same paths that led to such monstrous tragedies in the recent past. When will the lesson be learned that censorship of opposing points of view leads to irreparable social division? When will governments grasp that coercion only intensifies the human desire to be free? When will courts realize that two-tiered justice and political persecution ensure the rule of law's demise? How many more lives must be lost before those who exercise power understand that tyranny always leads to terror?

Totalitarian control over each citizen's life was the driving force behind the outbreak of WWII and the prolonged isolation of closed societies surviving under the blanket of communism during the Cold War. Germans uniquely possess the social memories of both totalitarian perpetrator and victim — first driving the Nazi ideology across the European continent and then suffering through a half-century of bifurcation and Soviet oppression in the East. They experienced the temporary euphoria of trading their individual lives for the greater glory of the German State and the torturous agony of submitting to an occupying force that required absolute obedience. If any nation of people should have learned the harsh repercussions of totalitarianism, it is Germany.

Instead, today's German leaders seek to ban opposition political parties and silence dissent. They micromanage economic activity under the dangerous propaganda campaign of "climate change." They disrupt social cohesion and cultural unity by opening Germany's borders to illegal aliens from unassimilable civilizations. They use the horrors of their own past to slander political protesters as "fascists." Nearly a century ago, German Nazis rose to power by dehumanizing much of Europe. Now their ideological descendants dehumanize those who oppose growing German totalitarianism by ironically branding them as Nazis. And in this strange milieu of historical contradiction, the German Klaus Schwab has built the World Economic Forum as an engine for making oppressive government universal. Even after the devastation of WWII and the Iron Curtain, it seems Western leaders still have no "vaccine" for the totalitarian disease.

It is a strange sight to see Western nations send their parliamentary leaders, foreign ministers, military generals, and prominent business executives to Schwab's WEF powwows, where they may organize how best to dominate and manipulate their respective national populations without even the pretence of a democratic mandate or constitutional legitimacy. This time around, totalitarianism returns to the West not on the heels of invasion and annexation but rather with light bacchanal celebrations in the crisp air of the Swiss Alps. It seems that the only thing aspiring Western tyrants learned from the twentieth century's carnage is that would-be totalitarians should not waste resources fighting one another when their common enemy has always been the people. During the age of monarchies and empires, the easiest way to conquer foreign lands was to purchase their nobles. That is what the World Economic Forum and its cabal of globalist conquerors do today.

Perhaps the most pungent indicator that Western totalitarianism has returned with a vengeance is the World Economic Forum's Orwellian insistence that its members are working to combat "threats to our democracy." Financial and political oligarchs pretending to protect the people's will is indistinguishable from a fox entrusted to guard the henhouse: the vulnerable always end up dead.

There is nothing "democratic" about labelling dissent as "disinformation." There is nothing "democratic" about conspiring with tech companies to censor public debate as "hate speech." There is nothing "democratic" about imposing top-down "climate change" regulations that do nothing other than strip private property rights and centralize economic control. There is nothing "democratic" about mandating what farmers may grow, what meats may be eaten, what people may own, what words can be said, or what experimental "vaccines" are required to work. There is nothing "democratic" about using central banks' manipulation of digital monies to control the public's behavior. The World Economic Forum is a totalitarian machine that undermines the democratic will of all Western peoples and an existential threat to human rights. … It is certainly true that neither global war nor the proliferation of Iron Curtain police states around the world sufficed to eradicate tyrannical fantasies in the minds of brutal men or bury the miseries of totalitarianism for good.

Fundamentally, the WEF's totalitarians misunderstand history. They believe that easily manipulated people are governed by lies when, in fact, people are desperate for authentic truth. WEF-ers such as Bill Gates, Al Gore, and John Kerry think so little of ordinary people that they terrorize them with scientifically fraudulent warnings of a looming "climate change" apocalypse built around the preposterous notion that poor and middle-class communities can be saved only if they hand over their private property, live in tiny cubicle apartments in fifteen-minute cities, abandon any fondness for personal freedom, and subsist on a diet of bugs.

The fear-inducing power of such malevolent lies does not tend to last. It is why Central and Eastern Europeans rebelled against Soviet communism and collapsed the Iron Curtain. It is why the Chinese Communist Party is so desperate to legitimize its totalitarianism with the pretext that it divinely operates under a "Mandate of Heaven." It is why the Canadian "Freedom Convoy" confronted Justin Trudeau's tyranny. It is why Dutch, Polish, German, Romanian, Irish, and French farmers are fighting back against insane "green" policies today.

Because Klaus Schwab's evil club has effectively disenfranchised the people, there is now a growing popular revolt throughout the West that could easily combust into an anti-Establishment "Reign of Terror." The WEF desires the West's suicide. Let us band together and choose life instead."

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