Where Will Jews Find a Safe Place? 

Israel and the Cost of Western Decline

Harry Liberman

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When Benjamin Franklin famously noted that the Constitutional Convention had delivered “a Republic, if you can keep it,” he issued a direct warning against the internal vulnerabilities that destroy free societies.

Today, that warning is being ignored as a compliant media apparatus actively conspires with progressive, leftist, and socialist Democrats to mask structurally destructive policies with high-flown rhetoric. Across the globe, America’s adversaries are laughing in disbelief. They watch an American electorate repeatedly succumb to the already proven, failed policies of progressive Marxism—now dangerously aligned with the bureaucratic stagnation of the EU, the totalitarian realism of China, and the destabilizing forces of Iran and Hamas.

The United States has officially crossed a psychological and existential Rubicon, with the gross national debt surging past the $40 trillion threshold . As the federal government burns through more than $1 trillion annually just to service net interest payments—a staggering liability that completely eclipses the entire national defense budget—the nation has slipped into an irreversible fiscal doom loop. The U.S. Department of the Treasury confirms that servicing this debt now devours roughly 18% of all federal spending, forcing Washington to continuously issue new debt simply to keep up with old obligations. This catastrophic trend represents an immediate threat to the middle class, as systematic currency devaluation hollows out hard-earned 401(k) portfolios and erodes American purchasing power.

Faced with this economic strain, the modern Democratic Party is steering America into terminal civilizational decline through a ruling class completely detached from economic reality. 

The party is increasingly populated by career bureaucrats and progressive activists who have never held a real job in the competitive private sector, leaving them entirely insulated from the real-world harm their regulations inflict. Instead of facing accountability, this political elite relies on a coordinated media infrastructure to engineer a perpetual cycle of public deception.

This massive grift has manifested in a series of institutional lies designed to protect the ruling class—from the systematic suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story as “Russian disinformation” by intelligence officials and media outlets, to shifting pandemic narratives, down to the political rhetoric used to pass massive spending packages under false pretenses. This institutional protection racket extends to radical activist groups; while major media corporations acted as cheerleaders, organizations like the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation faced widespread scrutiny as executives mismanaged millions in charitable donations to fund lavish lifestyles rather than helping local communities.

This blind institutional gridlock has created a massive blind spot, leading America to ignore rampant administrative corruption. 

The structural vulnerability is glaringly evident in how systemic fraud has penetrated state and federal programs. Recently, investigative dashboards like Daycare Doge and federal audits exposed the massive exploitation of state-funded child care networks [facebook.com]. In states like Minnesota, the federal government had to step in following allegations that specific facilities—such as the Quality Learning Centre and associated networks—became vehicles for billions of dollars in systemic fraud, bleeding taxpayer-funded initiatives like the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) [facebook.com]. Instead of swiftly eradicating these domestic vulnerabilities, Washington has engaged in political theater. This institutional grift stretches from New York and Michigan all the way to the White House, serving as an explicit warning sign of an empire too bloated to police its own coffers.

Nowhere is this institutional betrayal more evident than at the southern border, even as Democrats expand their electoral map with wins in Texas. The  Democrats’ open border policy is structurally dismantling the middle class—the true lifeblood of America. 

Porous borders are introducing alien cultures that historically possess no concept of a middle class. Neo-Marxist and radical Islamist frameworks are structurally built on a rigid two-class system: a ruling, protected elite and a subservient mass. Flooding American communities with low-skilled, unassimilated labor strains municipal infrastructure, drives down local wages, and dilutes the civic values required to sustain a constitutional republic [republicanpolicy.house.gov]. It is an economic and cultural disaster designed to create dependency rather than opportunity [congress.gov].

The premier blueprint for national survival can currently be found in Eastern Europe. 

Poland has maintained a firm stance on border security, refusing the EU’s open-ended resettlement mandates while preserving its cultural homogeneity [facebook.com]. The result? Far from collapsing into isolation, Poland has become the region’s economic powerhouse, with strong GDP growth driving it past Western European neighbors [ebrd.com]. Poland proves a fundamental truth that Washington ignores: the primary duty of a sovereign government is to protect the people it already serves, not the people from whom its citizens require protection.

This internal chaos is no accident; it is a calculated operation being carried out before the blind eyes of historically illiterate Americans. Investigation by The New York Times exposed how tech mogul Neville Roy Singham has been financing a global web of progressive organizations to advance Chinese state talking points, sowing social division within the United States while hiding out in Shanghai alongside leadership from the anti-war group Code Pink. This foreign subversion exploits an American population that cannot remember its own history.

The original European settlers came to America precisely to escape the suffocating collectivism of the Old World, establishing a society grounded in individual agency, economic freedom, and property rights. When early America faced its first foreign crisis, it did not pander; it deployed the newly formed U.S. Navy to defeat the Barbary Pirates of Tripoli, establishing that American sovereignty would be defended with unyielding resolve.

Yet today, the West is forgetting these lessons, and Europe stands as a warning sign of where this path leads.

Who will save Europe this time? During World War II, progressive and leftist European factions favored appeasement and pandered to Adolf Hitler—a strategy of weakness that did not turn out well. It was American industrial might and blood that came to the rescue, later rebuilding the shattered continent via the Marshall Plan. Deprived of that American anchor, a modern Europe without a British Empire is in terminal decline. France is functionally on fire with civil unrest, and the neo-Marxist and Islamist factions are winning the cultural war.

Even the European Union knows full well it faces fiscal ruin under the weight of its open-border, globalist agenda. 

In a desperate bid for stabilization, the bloc’s leadership initially floated a roadmap for Canada to become the EU’s first associate member. Yet, behind closed doors, sovereign European powers like Germany, France, and Italy quickly balked at the legal weight and severe economic obligations of the arrangement, signaling that integrating a vast, struggling North American economy is simply too expensive for a bloc already teetering on its own brink [dlapiper.com]. This globalist pivot has left Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney embarrassed on the international stage [facebook.com]. Pushing a controversial, high-spending agenda via his sophomore “Masters of Our Destiny” federal budget, Carney is attempting to build economic barriers against the United States while finding himself shut out by European realities.

This leaves Canada increasingly isolated and exposed to the gravitational pull of global tyrants like China and Iran—a direct warning of what happens when a Western nation turns its back on raw realism. [1]

The modern iteration of this left-wing faction has culminated in what geopolitical analysts term the “Red-Green alliance”: an unholy ideological coalition linking progressive, neo-Marxist socialists with radical Islamist movements. Those in the know are highlighting recent electoral shifts—including the high-profile progressive midterms that saw Abdul El-Sayed elected to the U.S. Senate in Michigan—contend that these internal political shifts are the ultimate indicator of Western decay.

They argue that the asymmetric threat format that emerged post-9/11 has found a sophisticated new operational mechanism: rather than relying on external confrontation, it has discovered that the open, legal, and electoral framework of Western democracy is the ultimate Achilles’ heel of America, enabling radical factions to influence foreign policy and loosen immigration controls from within.

Historically, when failing empires enter advanced stages of economic and fiscal degradation, their political institutions routinely look for scapegoats. Data compiled by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) demonstrates that turning against Jewish populations and targeting Israel serves as the definitive litmus test for a fracturing society, destroying the legal trust and intellectual capital required to sustain a healthy market.

This raises the ultimate existential question: Where will Jews find a safe place? 

The historical answer has always been Israel. If the hostility engineered by American progressive radicals continues to rise alongside the nation’s decline, a large-scale exodus of American Jews moving home to Israel becomes an impending reality. Recognizing this civilizational shift, Israel has already prepared itself for the future, actively decoupling its strategic interests from reliance on a volatile Washington through the execution of independent Memorandums of Understanding (MOU).

But America is not an island, and it cannot hide behind geographic isolation; in a globalized theater of war, the distance between Tehran, Beijing, and Washington is measured merely by the flight time of an intercontinental ballistic missile.

While American progressives actively restrict vital artificial intelligence infrastructure and impose severe environmental mandates that throttle domestic industry, global adversaries operate on pure realism.

This internal policy distraction creates an expansive structural vacuum. Autocratic regimes, most notably China, are moving full steam ahead with coal power, raw manufacturing, and unchecked AI advancement, securing their industrial dominance while America cripples its own economic engine under a $40 trillion debt load.

Policies matter in the end, and the current slate of progressive policies amounts to a systematic dismantling of the country. A nation cannot survive on debt and luxury beliefs alone, and a civilization cannot endure when its leadership treats its own borders, its own energy independence, and its own traditional alliances as liabilities to be discarded.

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