Race Wars Erupt Just When 'Tax the Rich' Goes Mainstream—What a Coincidence

We fracture along artificial lines of ethnicity while the ruling class pushes all of us into poverty, rapes children, and exterminates complete ethnic groups. Our division is their lifeline.

There is a moment in every empire's decline when the powerful, sensing the growing fury of the dispossessed, must choose between addressing the systemic rot or manufacturing a scapegoat. In Britain today, as across the crumbling Western world, that choice has been made. The billionaires have chosen their weapon: the immigrant, the asylum seeker, the refugee—anyone desperate enough to serve as a lightning rod for the rage that should rightfully be directed at those who have systematically looted our societies.

I have watched this theater of misdirection unfold with the cold precision of a military operation. Just months ago, the conversation in Britain centered on wealth taxes, on the obscene inequality that has hollowed out the middle class like termites devouring a house's foundation. Politicians squirmed under questions about why billionaires pay lower tax rates than nurses. The public discourse had found its target: the ruling class that has spent decades transferring wealth upward …