You stand before a grand train station made of red bricks with beautiful white trim around its windows and columns. Hundreds, if not thousands of people rushing in and out of the long English-style train platforms. Even the trains themselves could be considered works of art, with each passenger car painted a bright emerald green and its windows featuring stylized outlines of local wildlife. The ticket booth displays a chalkboard with lists of various cities and times. In front of that is a large blue sign with yellow lettering “Bulawayo station”
Then you blink
The station’s colors have faded, the building is actively decaying, and the only evidence of life on these platforms is a filthy sleeping bag in the corner facing away from the three completely abandoned train cars, each one rusting or completely trashed from the inside. Behind the ticket booth, a person is assigned directing people towards a vaccination site that has long been abandoned as well.
The beauty has died with the country that originally maintained all of it, Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, and cities became slums. This is a story we’ve all heard through various perspectives. The economy, political stability, and infrastructure quality. This all was affected after the bush war. But beauty and culture are more than material, these are things that resonate within the soul, things that will outlast our lifetimes.
As Americans, we might think our culture is too young or modernized to truly witness and live alongside ruins but that is furthest from the truth.
On the outskirts of Chicago lies a smaller city called Berwyn. Historically it was a dormitory town made up of mainly Czech and Polish immigrants. They created several traditions and buildings throughout the town namely Sokoł academies and a yearly “Houby Day” parade. Sokoł is a traditional form of gymnastics that was once practiced in a large building on Cermak Avenue and Houby Day is a festival that celebrates Czechoslovakian heritage.
You might be wondering what it all looks like now.
Since the late 2000s there has been an extreme demographic shift, white families that have been in that area since the late 19th century were all pushed out as landowners started accepting Section 8 housing and hordes of Mexicans and Blacks came in. This would all culminate in the most recent statistics coming from the 2020 census, which pointed out that the area went from almost 60% white down to less than 24% white in the matter of about a decade and a half. Well, Mexicans now make up 65%.
The beautifully masoned building that once held Sokol has now been a temporary home to various Mexican nightclubs, each one never staying for too long. The traditional hobby day parade has now shifted from a celebration of Slavic cultures to a series of political adverts, and a celebration of the Mexican conquest of the area (even though they have another parade the exact weekend after for Mexican Independence Day.)
Another larger-scale example is almost the entire city of Detroit or St. Louis. Beautiful architecture is sullied and left unattended by the scum that now resides in the cities.
The topic of culture war comes up a lot on the Internet, but people do not realize how deep it goes. We can complain about Hollywood movies and get caught up in celebrity drama online but that distracts us from the ultimate cultural erasure that is happening in our own communities.
The foreign hordes never create, never build anything of substance out of their own creativity. Instead they will only steal, bastardize and destroy. Everything from your art, inventions, culture is up for grabs until they take your country.
Berwyn is every town, from Northern Maine to Southern California, where the demographics shift rapidly and soon everything you hold sacred will be sloppily painted over with garbage if you do not get active.
The fine people at the American Freedom Party know this and are actively working on your behalf. Get active by becoming a member or volunteer staff.
We are the Rhodesians now.
