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Winning by Losing
We’re in a period of political upheaval, and it’s been brewing for decades. That much is obvious to Americans. It is also a growing global phenomenon.
There are scores of examples that the mainstream media largely ignores. The recent uprising in Sri Lanka was spurred by harsh “green energy” policies that toppled a government. The farmer uprising in The Netherlands, Europe’s largest exporter of food, over similar green energy policies. In all, dozens of protests from Spain to Canada over various Covid-related and “climate change” diktats continue to fester.
It is a global backlash against elitists’ top-down, punitive, authoritarian impulses. And they’re producing some interesting new leaders. Case in point: the United Kingdom’s current election among Conservatives to elect a new party leader and Prime Minister.
You probably know the backstory. Prime Minister and Conservative leader since 2019, former London Mayor Boris Johnson, self-destructed mostly due to scandals involving personal hypocrisy during punitive Covid-related lockdowns. There’s more to it than that, but suffice to say that no Republican in the U.S. would confuse Boris for an American “conservative.”
Can’t go wrong there.
Intriguing post – and the Common Sense article was exceptional as well. I particularly liked her perspective that adopting CRT and supporting BLM in Britain is even more disingenuous there than it is here (essentially trying to Americanize British history).
Globalism will die unless the elites can force it down our throats.
Do you think the victims of globalism will ever be willing to give up any of the benefits of globalism?
Globalism is just the talking point. What they seek is national totalitarian power. The Soviets were Globalists as well. They don’t think they have anything in common with the Soviets, but do recognize the Chinese success as top down, but don’t understand that it’ll drift toward the former system. So will we, but our totalitarians are profoundly ignorant and will destroy us must faster.
Generally, no.
As long as costs and benefits are kept far enough apart in people’s consciousness, the dwarfing of the latter by the former doesn’t signify.