Wayne Allyn Root — businessman and ebullient, unapologetic conservative — wrote something the other day that caught my eye. Over an article about “The Great American National Divorce,” his headline blared: “Escape of the White People.” Describing the exodus of New Yorkers to Florida and Californians to Nevada, Root noted that interstate migration across America is speeding up. Why? Because Americans who are not die-hard leftists “can no longer live with radical, extreme, self-destructive, communist SUICIDE BOMBERS.”
As Root repeatedly points out, Democrat-run states are destroying themselves. By electing “evil, communist madmen like LA Mayor Karen Bass, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani,” Democrats have ensured that their cities “will soon collapse and drown in a sea of crime and debt.” For decades, Root argues, white Americans have left Democrat-controlled cities primarily to avoid rising crime and crippling taxes. Now they are leaving because Democrats have put targets on their backs.
White Americans, Root writes, are “sick of being the target of Democrats and government; they’re sick of being attacked and demonized; they’re sick of being a piggy bank to pay for everyone else’s bills — in particular, the costs for welfare, food stamps, housing, public schools, healthcare, police, courts, and prison bills for millions of illegal aliens.”
They are sick of absurdly high taxes; Democrats’ “woke” culture; and Democrats’ insistence on welcoming and subsidizing “every transgender weirdo, every illegal alien criminal, and every radical Muslim who hates America, Jews, and Christians.”
They are sick of Democrats’ overt discrimination against white Americans; the “massive crime wave; defunded and demoralized police; dumbed-down schools that brainwash your children to change their genders; drug dealers on every corner; homeless tents, pee, poo, and drug needles on sidewalks; and cities that look like 3rd-world s-holes.” White Americans, Root concludes, have been pushed too far.
As if to prove Root’s thesis correct with several exclamation points, NYC mayor Mamdani just unveiled a new “racial equity plan” “to solve decades of neglect and discrimination.” Mamdani claims that his administration must take money from white people and hand it to non-white people in order to make up for “centuries of disinvestment in black and brown New Yorkers.”
The mayor’s “Chief Equity Officer” and “Commissioner of the Office of Equity and Racial Justice” — a Ugandan-born, Indian-descent radical socialist named Afua Atta-Mensah — promises “to confront institutional and systemic racism within our city and to begin the work of dismantling it.” So a couple of foreigners have taken over New York City, call it “our city,” and are now robbing white Americans because of the color of their skin. They’re proving Wayne Root right in real time.
Lest any readers mistake Root’s analysis as an intentionally dreary diagnosis permitting him the opportunity to propose a future cure, he has no good news to report. He says the “national divorce” has arrived. White people who don’t enjoy being victimized must escape Democrat-run hellholes before it’s too late. For Democrat states, “the end is near. The collapse will be fast and ugly. Get out now, while you still can.” Root is willing to say out loud what others will only whisper.
For Americans over the age of forty, this racial balkanization within the United States is particularly tragic to witness. Despite stubbornly persistent civil divisions, the post-WWII decades brought white and black Americans steadily together. Even after race-motivated murders repeatedly threatened to tear the country apart, “the better angels of our nature” somehow managed to carry us to better days. Several generations of Americans took Martin Luther King, Jr.’s exhortation to heart, when he dreamed that his “four little children” would “one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” So many white and black Americans have held those words dear.
Nearly sixty years after MLK’s assassination, though, we’re right back to judging Americans by their skin color. For millions of Americans who have watched old racial wounds steadily heal from one decade to the next, it is heart-wrenching to see Democrat political leaders dividing white, black, and brown people into “equity” pots “deserving” of disparate treatment.
Voters who constitute the Democrat party have preferred to call themselves “progressives” for most of the last century, but there is nothing “progressive” about dragging the country back to a time when skin color mattered more than anything else. It is particularly galling that foreigners such as Mamdani and his “Chief Equity Officer” — who despise America’s rich heritage and history — are in positions of power from which they can ignore America’s great triumphs while exploiting past injuries to divide and conquer Americans today.
We’ve heard the Democrats’ drumbeat of division for so many years now. In the late ’90s, it seemed as if “affirmative action” programs and other unconstitutional race-based preference systems in the United States would finally come to an end. Although white Americans had tolerated these discriminatory programs for several decades as grudging recompense for the perceived harms endured by previous generations or abiding deference to MLK and his “dream,” the discordance of fighting discrimination by embracing discrimination appeared inherently and irrevocably unjust.
Instead of allowing the nation to fully heal by recognizing the election of President Obama as the culmination of centuries of real progress for Americans of every race, the Democrats redefined their brand of “progressivism” to require only more kinds of racial preferences and new kinds of discriminatory quotas. The systemic racism of “affirmative action” programs morphed into the systemic racism of “diversity, inclusion, and equity” programs.
As Democrats found overt examples of racism more difficult to identify, they conjured out of thin air the new hobgoblin of “white supremacy.” Democrats refused to discard the discriminatory mindset of judging children by the color of their skin; in the name of “progressivism,” they still insist that a person’s skin color determines everything.
Democrat mayors, governors, and presidential hopefuls now explicitly tell us that they will never stop taking from white people in the name of false “justice.” They will never stop dividing Americans by skin color. They will never just treat all of us as “unhyphenated Americans,” as the late, great Lloyd Marcus used to call himself.
Marcus believed that “we are ALL Americans” and therefore do not need “racial modifiers to define us.” “Is there racism in America?” Lloyd rhetorically asked. “Absolutely, along with every other sin in the heart of man! Is there enough racism to stop anyone from achieving the American Dream? Absolutely not! America is the greatest land of opportunity on the planet.”
If only the Democrat party would stand for that!
If only the next generation of Democrats weren’t so committed to defining American children by the color of their skin. If only those foreigners who have been lucky enough to become naturalized American citizens showed more respect for our country, its history, its achievements, and our people’s perseverance. If only Democrats could progress beyond the worst racial impulses of the past. Americans should dream, work, and pray for that.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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