A recent survey reveals deep divisions in how Americans view enforcement of immigration laws, with a striking number of young people on the left willing to cross lines that most reject outright. According to polling firm Cygnal, which surveyed 1,500 respondents, 60 percent of liberals under 30 believe it is acceptable to go beyond peaceful protest to halt ICE raids—even if that involves breaking the law.
“42 percent of liberals said it was acceptable to go beyond peaceful protest even if that meant breaking the law. The number jumps to 60 percent of liberals under the age of 30.”
This acceptance of violence comes at a time when federal agents face real threats on the ground in Democrat-run cities, where organized groups block deportations of individuals with criminal records. In Chicago, for instance, mobs have clashed with ICE officers attempting to remove illegal aliens convicted of serious offenses, including assault and drug trafficking. Similar scenes play out in Los Angeles, where protesters shield those who have no legal right to remain. These actions don’t happen in a vacuum—they’re egged on by politicians and media figures who paint law enforcement as the villains.
Brent Buchanan, Cygnal’s president, put it plainly: “Liberals are shockingly okay with breaking the law to go against government action they don’t agree with, like ICE raids. One side of America’s political spectrum, whether directly engaged in the behaviors or not, now openly accepts breaking laws if it means advancing their political agenda. Considering their justification of illegal immigration and insistence that it’s not a criminal act if the act is desperate, this might not be such a surprise.”
The irony runs deep. These same young leftists stand to lose the most from unchecked migration, as waves of newcomers drive down wages in entry-level jobs, inflate rents in already crowded cities, and divert resources from American citizens. Yet polls show they’re more inclined than others to defend tactics that escalate into chaos.
A YouGov survey from September found that 26 percent of liberals under 45 think political violence can sometimes be justified, compared to just 7 percent of younger conservatives. Another poll by the same firm noted that very liberal respondents were twice as likely as others to accept joy over the death of a political opponent, hinting at a darker undercurrent in their worldview.
Dig a little deeper, and patterns emerge that suggest coordination beyond grassroots anger. Funding trails lead back to billionaire activists and NGOs that push open borders as a means to reshape demographics, ensuring a steady flow of dependent voters while undermining national sovereignty. It’s no coincidence that resistance spikes in sanctuary cities, where local officials defy federal mandates and expose ICE agents to doxxing and harassment. Democrats in Congress have even floated bills to reveal officers’ personal details, putting families at risk in a calculated bid to intimidate those upholding the law.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker captured this paranoia in a recent interview: “Is it really far-fetched to consider that maybe what [Trump] is doing with the militarization of cities is getting people used to seeing those military or people dressed in fatigues with automatic weapons, and then saying in November or October of 2026, ‘We’re going to protect the ballots. We’re going to protect you at the polling place. So we’re going to put these military soldiers or ICE officials in with automatic weapons outside of your polling place.’ … if they don’t think that the election is going their way, they can claim fraud and say, we’re seizing those ballot boxes.”
Meanwhile, the broader public rejects this extremism. Overall, 70 percent of Americans in the Cygnal poll disagreed with going beyond peaceful means, including majorities of independents and conservatives. Support for deporting criminal illegal aliens stands at 78 percent nationwide, per a Harvard/Harris poll from early October.
A New York Times/Siena survey echoed that, with 54 percent backing removals of those here unlawfully. These numbers expose the disconnect: while elites and activists stir division to protect their agenda, everyday people demand secure borders and accountability.
Progressive outlets like The New Republic frame these enforcement efforts as “paramilitary” aggression, with writer Greg Sargent claiming: “On Tuesday, masked members of the paramilitary wing of the MAGA movement … broadened their operations in Chicago. The result: more violence, more tumult, more Americans ferociously at one another’s throats. Exactly as President Trump and Stephen Miller intend.”
Such rhetoric fuels the fire, but it masks the real intent—to maintain the status quo established under Biden, where millions crossed unchecked, draining economies and propping up foreign regimes through remittances. This extraction of talent from poorer nations serves global interests, not American ones, and the willingness of young leftists to resort to force protects that system at all costs.
As deportations ramp up under President Trump, expect more clashes. But the data is clear: this embrace of lawlessness by a vocal minority threatens the fabric of society, prioritizing criminals over citizens in a bid to erode what makes America strong.
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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