Hey, I actually got the Animal Farm reference!
Yours is about the 3rd or 4th post today that highlights the impending collapse of The Empire.
Merkels "come on over and get your free everything" policy, spurred on by Soros no doubt, sounds a lot like:
The impression that it will always be automatically rich causes the declining empire to spend lavishly on its own benevolence, until such time as the economy collapses, the universities are closed and the hospitals fall into ruin.
And Viktor Orban's insistence that Hungary remains Hungarian demonstrates that he has an extensive knowledge of history, not just of his own nation's either. And rather than causing the collapse of the empire, it's merely signaling its inevitable demise.
One of the oft-repeated phenomena of great empires is the influx of foreigners to the capital city. Roman historians often complain of the number of Asians and Africans in Rome. Baghdad, in its prime in the ninth century, was international in its population—Persians, Turks, Arabs, Armenians, Egyptians, Africans and Greeks mingled in its streets.
This is usually portrayed as simple xenophobia but it's more a matter of cultural differences within a population leading to a less cohesive population.
Portraying it as xenophobia is simply an Alinsky tactic to shame the person for not being one of the egalitarian tribe. The worst part about that is to listen to these high-minded liberals and libertarians who think adherence to that misguided principle is the only viable political position to take ... and everything else is just reactionary bullshit because your white-male-middle-class ox is being gored.
It has nothing to do with simply being the slightest bit discriminatory in who you as a person or, in the case of immigration, society consorts with. That's a crime to these people and it leads to the current state of affairs in Europe and for what passes for political discourse in both the U.S. and Europe.
People do not have to be forced nor should they be forced to associate with someone or some group they don't want to. It may be their loss... but it is THEIR LOSS, not yours.
OK, you're practically reciting my source.
I posted the start of a series about it today.
The Fate of Empires by Sir John Glubb. I first heard about it in the 2012 documentary The Four Horsemen.
It's surprisingly accurate in it's predictions, the essay, the documentary has a little sketchyness to it.