It is hard to believe, but the British government is now into the fifth year of negotiations with the EU over withdrawing from the union. The Brexit referendum passed in June of 2016 and since then there have been two new Prime Ministers and one national election, all driven by the issue. Of course, there have been lots of promises to get the deal done, but it has been one delay after another. They have just announced another delay in order to keep negotiating a deal that will never come.
To provide some perspective on all of this, consider the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years War. The war was one of the most devastating and complex events in European history. After all sides were exhausted from war, a conference was arranged for the belligerents to hash out their differences. A total of 109 delegations arrived and it took two years. In other words, one of the most complex treaties in history took less time that these Brexit negotiations.
Of course, as Farage points out, this is all a ruse to prevent Brexit from ever happening, at least not in the way the people expected. They will keep dragging it out until they sense the political winds have changed, at which point they have a second referendum in which the vote is rigged and they get the vote they want. Alternatively, they will cook up a deal that is basically a sham. The Brits will be subject to all the same rules, just administered under the name of Brexit.
This should be familiar by now. The Trump administration was basically just a four-year delaying action as the ruling class engineered the election fraud. There was no legislation on any of Trump’s signature issues. He got no wall money and he got no deal on immigration. Of course, nothing happened with the FBI’s seditious plot to overturn the 2016 election. At every turn, both parties conspired to prevent the Trump administration from moving their agenda forward.
From the perspective of the people who actually run things, these tactics are wonderful displays of democracy. Sure, most people think democracy means the will of the people, as expressed at the ballot box, is enacted in legislation, but most people are wrong about this. In reality, democracy is where the people endorse the preferred option of the ruling class. That way, the people in charge don’t have to take responsibility for their actions and face the wrath of the mobs.
This is not just a right-wing complaint. The Pretender Biden is about to be installed and the Left is already grumbling. Instead of filling his administration with trannies, angry unmarried females and other assorted kooks from the valley of the woke, the new administration will be staffed by flunkies and coat holders there to do the bidding of global capital. All of those people who volunteered for the Colored Revolution in 2020 are going to find out they were conned.
This reality will not matter much, as the Republicans will wave the bloody shirt, demanding their voters support the party. The same people who spent five years penning “Never Trump” columns will shamelessly demand that you vote for some block of wood because she is less odious than the Democrat. You see that in Georgia where all of the usual toadies are claiming that the two Republican stiffs running for Senate are all that stand between freedom and communism.
At a certain level, you have to admire the shamelessness. One of those stiffs is an open borders fanatic who promises to turn the state of Georgia into a mix of Sinaloa and Africa by flooding the state with migrants. In other words, the guy who promises the exact opposite of what GOP voters have been demanding is supposed to be the last line of defense against the Democrats. While the GOP is begging for votes, they are literally promising to genocide their own voters.
All of this, of course, is the reality of liberal democracy. There is an old expression that no people have ever erected a statue in honor of a committee. The point being that it is bold men leading their people who are remembered. The corollary to that is no one has ever faced the wrath of the mob by voting present on a committee. A rule or policy that seems to appear ex nihilo from the liberal democratic system may infuriate the public, but they have no target onto whom they can focus their anger.
Think about it. How did we end up with pornography being pumped into the mobile devises of our children? When was this vote taken? Who decided that pornographers were a protected class, but pro-life advocates were not? How did we end up with tranny story time? You can go down the list of indignities imposed upon us and not find a single name you can attach to it. The truth is, the people responsible for it hide in the shadows of liberal democracy, so they never have to answer for it.
There is an old expression about the gold bugs that goes like this. “If your rulers are so corrupt that you need hard money to control them, your rulers are so corrupt that they will find a way around the hard money.” It is a nice corollary to the old expression, “Locks keep honest people honest.” In other words, good people need rules to help them avoid temptation and channel their good intentions. In contrast, bad people not only ignore the rules, they are constantly seeking to undermine them.
The old Joseph de Maistre line about people getting the government they deserve gets thrown around a lot in democracies, as a way to blame the people for the sins of their rulers, but there is another implication. The people can, if they can lift up their eyes and take a look at who is ruling over them, decide that they deserve better than the ruling class they have and take action. Numbers still matter and if enough of the public has had enough of their rulers, they can get new rulers.
Just as the slave must first look his master in the eye as an equal, before he can revolt against his condition, people must first come to terms with the fact that their rulers are rotten to the core. This is the prerequisite to getting new rulers. People need to see that it is not that they have the wrong rules to control their rulers. The problem is they have the wrong rulers. In other words, instead of focusing their wrath on the system, they focus their wrath on the people responsible.
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PSA but they need to put Steve Sailer in a rubber room
he’s losing it
No joke. His latest “can we please just get this behind us” covid column was pretty pitiful.
Yes. I started to read it. And then I felt the weakness, the lameness. Much like when one picks up a copy of The Guardian.
We’ve been in Afghanistan for 20 years. I don’t think intelligent visitors from outer space could extract us from that morass.
This is one of your best in my humble opinion…thank you
Agreed. Z better be careful though. You could start a Revolution talking this way.
We want new new rulers and the rulers want new people. Something’s gotta give.
The current process is for the courts to strike down reasonable legislation that helps heritage American while legislating from the bench for progressive ideas, then have the same courts state ‘precedent’ based on a rogue ruling. This, of course, is the last resort if they can’t kill it through a thousand cuts of bureaucratic shenanigans. For those keeping score at home, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal where a judge threw out a requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. The Supreme Court also refused to reject a lower court mandate requiring hospitals to put two mothers… Read more »
“The truth is, the people responsible for it hide in the shadows of liberal democracy, so they never have to answer for it.”
Hey, hey, hey, knock off the anti-Semitism, wouldja?
I hope loeffler 10 foot tranny and Perdue lose. I really do. On a number of levels it will be highly gratifying.
Noticed that even the Con-inc. pundits are having trouble selling this turd sandwich. The new talking point is “Keep the senate until we can primary some people and get real Republicans in”.
At this point even they must realize how pathetic they sound.
The GOP flailing away as they sink into quicksand is one of those gratifying things
When was the last time you saw one of those?
I guess the real question is when are enough people in this former country going to decide they’ve had it with our corrupt rulers and take the decisive action needed? And will there be enough unafraid of catching the dreaded Covid bug to get things rolling?
it may be that right now it’s not about what we can and will do but what we can’t and won’t do. I can’t and won’t ever support, donate or vote GOP or support any of the government’s wars of profit and convenience. And I won’t shed a tear when McConnell is sent back to being minority leader of the senate and all of those goofballls in the GOP who betrayed me get their asses handed to them
There is a bitterness and deep resentment out there I see coming from people I would have considered normals a year ago. I’ve gone from thinking violent civil war was a possibility years from now to thinking 2021 could be it.
I have been amazed at the way normal people I know who are Christian, conservatives have been talking. They are forming groups and are fed posting like crazy. I had to tell some of them to keep it quiet out in public. We are living in amazing times.
2021 is going to be the year. I can feel it.
It’s weird for me… I’m in canada, in an urban area. And yet, when I go to the store, I see alot of white men who are quietly thinking… something. I get the feeling I could go up and start talking dissident politics in a reasonable, calm tone and have them quietly in agreement. Rural areas are another matter, I don’t think I need to say anything at all, they’ve caught up to where I am at. I can’t tell if I’m crazy, or if this is a real shift. Something is blowing in the wind and alot of white… Read more »
Our current ruling class is so corrupt, so ignorant, and so arrogant, they are going to push the American people into a violent revolution, even though it’s obvious that that is the last thing your average American wants. All our rulers had to do was keep the economy and sportsball rolling, and they could have salami-sliced us into a totalitarian dictatorship in a few years. But that would have meant leaving Normie fat and happy, and they just couldn’t bear it, not when the WuFlu gave them such a golden opportunity to immiserate the people they hate. I expect the… Read more »
Yes. Like so many decisions of all consequence, Brexit will be delayed. And delayed again. But of course, it makes no real difference. Most of the people charged with pushing Brexit through were never really keen on doing it. Many were probably wholly sympathetic to the EU. I have just been at Peter Hitchen’s blog, and some commenters their are jostling back and forth regarding the different treaties, what Brexit means for the ‘economy’ (whatever that is) and so forth. As I said to friends over the weekend, none of this matters if the people pushing it are the same… Read more »
After the farce of the election here I’m actually wondering why doesn’t the UK ruling class have a handle of their elections? Apparently you can get the vote you want without too much trouble
It’s mind boggling to think how quickly and how far the British have fallen. A few generations ago you had literal genius Oxford dons willing to man Vickers guns in cold trenches until either they died or all the enemy died. Now when people find out luxury items might cost a couple pounds more, they balk at leaving the EU. It isn’t that men were once made of iron and are now made of wood. They were made of iron and are now made of marshmallow. And the Muslims, from Mayor Sadiq Khan on down to the local monobrowed Rapefugee,… Read more »
The truth is, the people responsible for it hide in the shadows of liberal democracy, so they never have to answer for it.
Faceless bureaucrats have almost always had this luxury. The elected were much more accessible. Sure, Kennedy’s picadillos were hidden by the media but that was more decency than political cover. Now the media hides entire D.C. juntas conducting overthrows. And have you noticed, prior to Covid, even minor elected officials were conducting fewer and fewer townhall meetings?
They are becoming a separate species, this ruling class, and they are invasive and parasitic.
This is why Congress roles all of its spending into one bill. If you can’t tell who’s voting for which part of the bill, then every legislator has some level plausible deniability as to his actual reasons for voting “yea.” What’s interesting is that this policy is fanned as a way to break partisan gridlock because the line is that “voting on each spending issue is too cumbersome, and subject to partisanism.” Then, when Congress roles out a huge spending bill (months or years too late), they tell us how great of a bipartisan victory this was. Words mean nothing… Read more »
They do what they always were going to do by any means necessary. Whitmer in Michigan got shot down by the state supreme court on her lock down measures only to decide to let use the health department to cover for her. Now she wants the legislature to vote on lockdown. Why you ask is this necessary? She said it would send a postive message to the sheep that this is supported on all sides. Me thinks she just wants cover. See, they voted for it also. There are so many layers of obstruction and blocking the general will. We… Read more »
But you HAD a new ruler, Z. Trump had to move heaven and earth, and slay dragons just to get into a position where he could even talk about walls, immigration, the swamp, etc. All that was just to get into a position where he could start to REALLY fight. And now that fight is upon him and the DR is talking about walking away, leaving him to flutter in the breeze because he couldn’t fight the rest of that battle on his own. Can we assume that you are now endorsing the Boogaloo? Because that is the only other… Read more »
What makes Koch hate so much the people who gave him everything? Is ripping off another $100 billion worth that?