"A Dying Nation Visits A Dying City"
The BEC's Guests Welcomes Back Nathan Koenig, Offering Reflections on the Recent Visit By French President Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron recently arrived in New Orleans for an official state visit. This historic event marked the first time that a French President visited New Orleans since 1976. Of course, Macron’s visit centered around promoting a Globalist agenda for the energy sector. Macron even induced Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards to sign an agreement to encourage unproductive “clean energy” in both France and Louisiana. Nonetheless, Macron’s overall visit contained broader implications that no one has picked up on to my knowledge.
When I first heard about Macron’s planned visit, I could not help but compare New Orleans to the nation of France. Macron’s visit represents a “meeting of the minds” between “A Dying Nation and A Dying City”
I am not exaggerating here; as a nation, France possesses all the appearances and features of a dying nation.
France’s birth rate is well below replacement-level, so the population will inevitably shrink in the future. Similarly, France’s elderly population has grown to a full fifth being 65 years or older. This is not a vibrant, growing society.
France also suffers from mass-scale immigration from Africa and the Middle East. This immigration crisis has existed for over a decade— especially due to the refugee crisis from the Syrian Civil War. Immigrants have made much of urban France completely unsafe: even police avoid the “No-Go Zones,” highly-concentrated neighborhoods of unassimilated Muslims.
In more recent news, France is undergoing an energy crisis. Many factors are at play here concerning the causes of this crisis—including corrosion issues with France’s nuclear energy facilities, the European Union’s anti-fossil fuel agenda, and the military conflict between Russia and the Ukraine. Nevertheless, energy rationing and shortages are likely scenarios for the French people this coming winter.
President Macron himself represents the lack of vitality in France and Europe more broadly. Macron does not have any children and married a woman who is twenty-four years older than himself.
France is a dying nation.
New Orleans unfortunately shares many of the same negative qualities and trends hammering France.
Here is the situation in New Orleans:
Crime is out-of-control, the police department is chronically understaffed, middle class families are leaving the city in droves, businesses are relocating, Government officials act corruptly, and the city’s infrastructure (i.e. roads, pumping systems) is in extremely poor condition.
This list could go an ad infinitum, but we all are aware of the issues facing New Orleans at this point. Nothing new to report here.
No one is fooled by President Macron and Mayor Cantrell’s uber-expensive jaunt around New Orleans. The real issues facing New Orleans and France are not getting solved by extravagant dinners and worthless agreements. The time for real solutions is well-overdue, and we will not stand idly by while the whole of Greater New Orleans gets driven into the proverbial Canal by ineffectual leadership.
The Greater New Orleans area is not past saving, and we should all play our part into making our home the best place it can possibly become.
So then, what are some solutions for the issues facing France and New Orleans?
France can look to its European neighbor Hungary to solve its immigration crisis and low birth rate. A zero-net immigration moratorium and child tax credits are two simple policies to solve these fundamentals problems in France.
France could also benefit from electing a nationalist leader who will protect the sovereignty and national identity of France. Former French presidential candidate and political commentator Eric Zemmour generally fits this nationalist, right-wing mold.
For the Greater New Orleans area, conservative residents need to organize themselves and support Grassroots candidates for School Board, the State Legislature, and state-wide offices (e.g. the Governor’s race).
The Bayou Mama Bears group is one solid example of parents coming together to push back against the COVD lockdowns/mandates and crime. We need more grassroots groups like the Bayou Mama Bears because “political establishment”-type groups operate more like glorified social clubs than effective political operations. From my experience, working in organized, cohesive grassroots groups is much more effective than “flying solo” or joining your local Republican club.
Future generations will either thank us or blame us for our actions in the current time. We have a simple decision confronting us: the people of South Louisiana can either reverse the decline of our Dying city/region or we allow the decaying process to continue unabated.
On a closing note, I wanted to share this picture around the time of Macron’s visit in New Orleans. I believe this picture below encapsulates just how much of a waste of time this whole ordeal became:
Yep, that’s a good ol’ pothole all right. Don’t expect it to get fixed anytime soon.
The BEC extends our gratitude to guest contributor Nathan Koenig.