Bret Weinstein: The West is at this moment in grave danger.

"And the West is at this moment in grave danger. Some force that wishes to rig the world has clearly taken hold and targeted these agreements everywhere they have been embraced.

In societies with weak constitutions, civil liberties have already given way. In the United States, we have one of the strongest constitutions anywhere, and so our descent into tyranny is slower, but there is no time to lose. We have to regain control of our system and return to the Founders' vision, or we will soon find the opportunity has slipped away. We must rescue the Republic to save the West.

But why is this happening? How has the system of checks and balances that is supposed to protect us been compromised? The answer is to be found in biology. Our constitutional republic has become senile. The immunities it once had are gone, and it has lost sight of its purpose, all of which has opened it to capture by parasitic and predatory forces. That may seem like an extreme claim, but I believe this is much more than an analogy.

Creatures get old because evolution has favored numerous characteristics that make them strong when they are young at almost any price so long as it is delayed. So we grow old and die because all of the delayed costs eventually catch up to us. Unfortunately, civilizations have exactly the same defect, and those based on free markets in which leaders are elected are likely to be particularly susceptible.

Politicians and profiteers benefit from thinking on short time horizons, and they generally lose when they think over too long a term. All of this short-term problem-solving and kicking the cost can down the road has produced an inevitable crisis. The most powerful society the world has ever known is angry and hopelessly confused. It is, in short, demented.

We are facing the destruction of the West and we cannot afford to return to the dark world that would certainly replace it."