If you want to see where Democratic Party policies lead, don't read a think tank white paper. Just look at Europe. Open borders, socialized medicine, Net Zero energy mandates, and a welfare state so bloated it makes California blush — they tried all of it. The results are catastrophic, and the numbers are pouring in this week to prove it.
Think of Europe as the Ghost of Christmas Future, except instead of Scrooge's tombstone, it's showing us Germany's investment portfolio.
Let's start with Germany, because Germany is supposed to be the economic engine of Europe. Was, anyway. As Andrew Widburg detailed at American Thinker — picked up by ZeroHedge — foreign investment in Germany has collapsed. The country is now spending between 40 and 50 billion euros annually — that's $45 to $57 billion — just on immigration costs. And their economy is already 80 to 85% smaller than America's. They're lighting money on fire they don't have.
The phrase making the rounds is blunt: "The world is losing trust" in Germany. When former Chancellor Angela Merkel threw open the borders in 2015, she told Germans it would be fine. It was not fine.
But Germany's just one domino. Swing over to Belgium, where a recent survey found that 56% of Flemings are afraid they're being "slowly replaced." That's not some fringe conspiracy poll. That's a majority of the Flemish population. And the number that should terrify every European policy maker? In Belgium, 73% of people under 18 have immigrant backgrounds. Seven out of ten kids.
Let that sink in.
The United Kingdom is trying to spin its numbers as a success story, and it's hilarious. British politician Shabana Mahmood, an MP, actually bragged that "net migration is now at 171,000, down from a high of 944,000" under the Conservatives. She proclaimed, "This Government is restoring order and control to our borders."
Except here's what the fine print says: 813,000 people immigrated to Britain in the year ending December 2025. Of those, 627,000 came from non-EU countries. Only 110,000 were British nationals returning home. The "net" number looks small because 642,000 people also left — including 136,000 British nationals who apparently decided their own country wasn't worth staying in anymore.
So the Brits who built the country are leaving, and they're being replaced by — let's check the numbers — 138,000 Indians, 56,000 Pakistanis, 54,000 Chinese, and 47,000 Nigerians. PM Starmer calls this "control." The rest of us call it a staffing change.
Then there's crime. Denmark's own Statistics Denmark data — pulled from their STRAFNA4 and FOLK1C databases — shows that Somali immigrants lead the country in rapes, fraud, forgeries, and grievous assaults. Palestinians lead in burglaries, blackmail, and theft. These aren't opinions. These are Denmark's own government statistics.
And we haven't even touched healthcare. England's NHS has become a case study in what happens when you let government run medicine — endless wait times, rationing, and the now-infamous Liverpool Care Pathway, which was supposed to help dying patients but became a scandal over whether it was hastening deaths instead.
Every single policy on the progressive wish list — open borders, government healthcare, climate-first energy policy, massive social spending — Europe implemented it first. And every single one is producing the same result: economic decline, social fracture, and citizens who are either terrified or heading for the exits.
Democrats look at this wreckage and see a blueprint. We look at it and see a warning. The only question is whether enough Americans are paying attention before we copy Europe's homework — and get Europe's grade.