We Always Live by Social Norms & Rules

The only question is who sets and enforces them, more secular locals or theocratic immigrants

Lester Golden
15 min readSep 14, 2024

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Governance by a multi-culturalism that posits an absence of social norms and rights will implode from the power vacuum it creates. A civilization that declines to tell immigrants what the rules are will see its rules — social norms — replaced by others. Social norms and power abhor a vacuum. And if those in the conservative, center and center-left of western countries’ political spectrum don’t protect western social and cultural norms and borders, voters will elect fascists who do.

So if you don’t want more Orbans, Wilders, Melonis and LePens in power, listen to Asne Seierstad, the Norwegian author of The Bookseller of Kabul…

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Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.