People have been waking up for several years now. The slumber induced by the elites these past five or so decades is over. We are on the edge of major change. The post-truth age is ending and voters are eager to usher in a resurgent democratic paradigm. One that embraces citizens’ safety over tolerance, local prosperity over foreign aid, and family unity above theoretical communities.
Call it nationalism, populism, or put them together as nationalist-populism.
This is the movement that is sweeping Europe and the West. For many observers populism is seen as a phenomenon; something new, and so they have contrasting thoughts about what to make of it.
Of the populist idea, one thing is certain; it did not simply appear, spontaneously.
Long before Donald Trump in 2015 descended that staircase to announce for president the strong forces of political change were at work.
Politicians, media, and educators for the most part no longer use objective truths to describe world events. Even those that want to speak out fear job-loss and humiliation by their peers. Everything, we are lectured endlessly, emerges from within a particular social-justice frame, through the lens of a particular cohort. As long as the cohort isn’t white and male every story must be accepted as the final word, the only truth which matters.
Page through threads on various social media and you discover that nationalists are either patriots or xenophobes.
Those expressing concern for their country is called out as anti-immigration by the usual suspects. Only bigots hold such intolerant divisive opinions. What these labels, slanders, and memes hold in common is that their devotees lack information.
The legacy-media of course follows the party line.
Elites and talking-heads are quick to label those expressing concerns about open-borders and mass-migration as the enemy. It’s the far-right, alt-right, and fascists that want to fuel division in society. Everyone else, we are lectured endlessly, promotes tolerance experiencing their daily lives as one gigantic group-hug.
For folks with their eyes open to reality, there is no utopia now, or ever.
The narrative of liberal democracy is long shopworn, in tatters, and, pretty much daily, proved false. Worse, the progressives continue to ramp-up to greater levels of authoritarianism. Such state control is nowhere more obvious than in Canada under the thrall of today’s Trudeau Regime.
The world is changing. Over the course of the last two years we have witnessed a massive surge in support for politicians with campaign platforms which place protection of their country at the vanguard. This has been most evident in Eastern Europe. Two examples are Austria and Hungary with Victor Orban.
In Italy it is the talkative Matteo Salvini and his nationalist League (Lega) party (in a coalition government with the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) working to improve the lot of Italian citizens. If not for the intervention of globalists forces in France Marine Le Pen would, I believe, occupy the space currently taken up by ex-Goldman Sacks banker Emmanuel Macron.
It is the enemies of reason and debate who eschew facts, and invent alternate ones.
That’s one reason why huge swathes of the public have no faith in old-timey television news and printing-press editorials.
For decades now, liberal (progressive) talking points have divided nations and within nations, societies.
Public sentiment has turned against the tropes of state driven multiculturalism, affirmative action, and cultural relativism. Think: European Union, United Nations, and most universities in the West.
You may think such change exclusively takes the form of street-protests, forcing elites to alter their policies. The French gilets-jaunes or yellow-vests protests spring to mind. But this is but a symptom of frustration by taxpayers, fed-up with being ignored, exploited too long.
The real change, the systemic change to reignite democracy in the West is, and has been occurring at the ballot boxes of Western nations. Make no mistake, national populism is the force of change in 2019 and beyond.
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