The People Are Speaking, But Don't Expect Elites to Listen
Though smeared as “far right” and racist by mainstream media in the U.S. and Europe, these movements are largely bound by opposition to the machinations of elites
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By Joe Doran
People are rising up in unprecedented political upheavals in Argentina, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain.
The U.S. is also in turmoil over endless war funding, an immigration crisis that has seen opposition to Biden administration policies mount from major urban bastions of liberalism like New York and Chicago.
Though smeared as “far right” and racist by mainstream media in the U.S. and Europe, these movements are largely bound by opposition to the machinations of elites.
Masses of average citizens are growing more vocal and proactive, as they endure erosions in standards of living, losses in freedom, and politically correct obliterations of their social and cultural traditions and histories.
They are tired of having their money debased, and their basic human rights trampled.
But don’t expect elites to trumpet “democracy” when the wrong candidates, parties and causes win elections.
For elites, “democracy” is one more useful mask, like “climate change” or “science.”
Their object is to grind down political opposition to their power and wealth, period.
When actual democracy prevails, despite their massive manipulation, any talk of the virtue of democracy disappears.
Instead, the media predictably hurls epithets of “far right,” “xenophobia,” “anti-Islam,” “racist,” etc.
It’s important for people to understand what lies underneath, connecting seemingly disparate grievances that have created waves of discontent in Europe and the Americas.
In one sense or another, people are demanding to live in freedom, in a continuity of organic evolved culture and traditions, and to enjoy the fruits of their labors, in relative equality with others.
What is opposing those desires? Elites, who invariably seek to grow and preserve their massive disparities of privilege.
That’s the dynamic. Seeing it clearly, as it plays out through specific events and issues, provides a path to more effectively engage and fight for things that empower the relative many, while checking the ambitions of the relative few.
A Wild Win in The Netherlands
Two Trends Journal Top Trends of 2023, “ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT—NEW POLITICAL PARTIES,” and “ANTI-IMMIGRATION” have both been borne out by recent earth shaking electoral events and demonstrations.
The latest is the Netherlands. In an electoral victory last month, Geert Wilders’ “Party for Freedom” doubled its previous seat total.
With 37 seats in the 150-seat lower house of parliament, Wilders will now have the chance to form a governing coalition with other centrist and right of center parties.
The media cast the win in the most negative possible terms, casting the election as a racist and xenophobic “anti-Islam” tantrum.
The Associated Press called the democratic win a “stunning lurch to the far right for a nation once famed as a beacon of tolerance.” (“Dutch election: Geert Wilders records massive shock win in Netherlands,” 22 Nov 2023.)
In fact, there’s nothing nefarious or extreme in Dutch citizens wanting to see their own long evolved traditions and social frameworks continue to exist and be perpetuated.
As Wilders put it, concerning the immigrant “asylum tsunami”: “Voters said, ‘We are sick of it. Sick to our stomachs.’ The Dutch will be No. 1 again. The people must get their nation back.”
Wilders has also promised to end that country’s military funding to Ukraine, and to stop radical “Net Zero” carbon reduction timetables that are destroying, among other things, the Netherland’s farm sector.
Bloomberg railed against that agenda with the headline, “Dutch Climate Goals at Risk After Success of Far-Right Party” (25 Nov 2023.)
The Dutch people are incredibly productive relative to their population size. Though geographically tiny, they are a leading historic trading, financial and even agricultural power. Their farmers, for example, as The Trends Journal has pointed out, are among the most efficient in the world:
“The Netherlands may be a small country in terms of geographic size and population (about the size of the state of Maryland). But its cutting-edge technology and superior farming knowledge have made it the second largest exporter of agricultural food products to the world, behind only the United States, as The Washington Post and others have acknowledged.” (“CARBON WAR DEGROWTH: DUTCH GOVERNMENT TRIES TO SWEETEN THE POT FOR FARM BUYOUTS,” 9 May 2023.)
The Netherlands also leads the world in some of the most advanced computer chip-making technology. (See “ASML IDENTIFIES CHINA IN IP THEFT OF ADVANCED CHIP FABRICATION TECHNOLOGY,” 28 Feb 2023.)
And the country retains tremendous strategic and economic importance as a shipping power and hub. As we have pointed out:
“The country once vied with England as the world’s dominant sea and shipping power. Despite its tiny size (population approximately 19 million), the port of Rotterdam remains the shipping epicenter of Europe, and the second largest shipping focal point in the world outside of Asia.”
With all those attributes, the Netherlands could be seen as representing an enviable example of a productive society.
But it’s precisely Netherland’s success that has made it a prime target for radical dismantling.
The tiny country has been flooded for a generation with tidal waves of immigrants from far away lands and alien cultures.
Those immigrants have little understanding, and no stake in what has allowed a relatively wide proportion of Dutch citizens to achieve prosperity and relative freedom.
And that’s exactly what elites driving immigration and “climate change” policies have banked on.
They are intent on grinding down opposition to their radical Degrowth, de-human agenda.
If you believe the world has billions of useless eaters, and that middle classes are the only politically effective class opposing your will, you could find few better targets on earth for your animus, than the people of the Netherlands.
Netherlands farmers, shipping industry and technology workers have just flexed a bit of their political power in opposition to radical elitist agenda.
And elites don’t like it one bit.
Ireland Erupts Over Immigrant Influx
Dublin exploded in frustration last month over immigration policies which have brought unrelenting crime and destruction of culture in that nation.
Citizens spontaneously protested after reports that a five-year-old Irish girl was seriously injured in a knife attack by an immigrant. A woman in her 30’s, and several other children also sustained injuries.
As ABC News euphemized it, “a man attacked a number of people on Parnell Square East.” (“Violent clashes break out in Dublin after knife attack that injured 3 children,” 23 Nov 2023.)
The man has been identified in other news reports as an Algerian immigrant.
Authorities were quick to paint the protest as a “violent” “far-right” riot.
ABC quoted Ireland’s top police officer Drew Harris, concerning the Dublin protests: “We have a complete lunatic hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology, and also then this disruptive tendency engaged in serious violence.”
In fact, Irish citizens have grown understandably frustrated by a sharp rise in violence and decimation of their society by unmitigated waves of immigration.
Increasingly, citizens and even celebrities have spoken out concerning socially destructive mass immigration policies.
MMA star Connor MacGregor has recently been a focal point, for his comments concerning crime and immigration. Media were quick to blame him for the violence in Dublin.
MacGregor, sounding more and more like a future political candidate, punched back on X, saying the Irish people were done, excusing and hiding the problems, or being cowed by epithets of “racism” or “xenophobia”:
“Isn’t that something. The absolute picture of weak and feeble. The most divisive of all is the weak man. One of the most horrific crimes this nation ever seen has occurred, we do not care anymore what you sad cases have got to say. In a war you are nothing. We are not backing down, we are only warming up. There will be no backing down until real change is implemented for the safety of our nation. We are not losing any more of our woman and children to sick and twisted people who should not even be in Ireland in the first place. Call it what you want. We do not care. May God help us all. Ireland for victory.”
MacGregor is resonating, because he is putting the blame where it belongs: with authorities importing massively destabilizing numbers of immigrants who have next to nothing in common with Irish people, society or traditions.
Again, the question becomes, why are elites who have been adding fuel to the fires of Middle East wars and impoverishment, been so intent on disrupting and displacing Euro populations with migrants driven out by those conflicts?
If elites see the political power of the middle class as the problem, whether in Ireland, the U.K., or the Netherlands or Germany or Italy, then using waves of immigration and draconian climate measures can serve as useful virtue masks to gut and hobble that power.
And make no mistake, the virtue is as thin as a dollar store Halloween get-up. Concerning their climate preaching and dictates, for example, a new study by non-profit Oxfam International compiled data that shows a small fraction of the wealthiest elites, 77 million, have contributed as much carbon “pollution” as the 5 billion human beings that make up the bottom 66 percent.
The study was highlighted by The Epoch Times.
The rich have enough power to live sequestered from the problems, enjoying the lifestyles they choose. It’s the rest that are suffering.
Spain and Argentina Rebel Against Economic Devastation
In both Spain and Argentina, recent electoral politics have revolved around economic devastation fueled by disastrous financial, monetary and economic policies.
The unprecedented upheavals in these countries are just as tied to elitist policies and dictates.
In Argentina, Javier Milei, fresh off an astounding landslide victory, is already vowing to make good on one of his biggest campaign promises: ending Argentina’s Central Bank.
Under socialist rule, the country has endured spiraling inflation in the ballpark of a hundred percent per annum, which has meant goods and services doubling in price in the course of a year.
Reuter’s noted that Milei will face significant obstacles in implementing his plans, even from mainline conservatives that helped his electoral victory.
Melei’s general push will be to:
stem inflation by tying Argentina more closely to the U.S. dollar (ie. “dollarization”)
end central bank currency inflation
adopt a friendly regulatory stance toward the use of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
Privatize badly performing state owned industrial and business entities
In Spain, recent massive protests have mostly focused on political maneuvering involving Catalan, which attempted a violent breakaway in 2019.
Socialists, who were outdone in this year’s election by right-of-center parties, drew outrage after offering Catalan “amnesty” to gain their support to form a governing coalition.
But the protests also displayed frustrations of Spaniards over immigration.
As Breitbart reported, many who turned out to protest against the Catalonia amnesty offer, also were vocal in condemning the waves of immigration from the Middle East and Africa Muslim controlled regions.
Chants of “Spain is Christian, not Muslim,” underscored their frustration with policies that have frayed social cohesion in that country.
Next Up: the U.S. Election 2024
The upcoming U.S. election is just as connected to these various events, as they are to each other.
The New York Times certainly recognizes this. A recent Times article concerning Milei’s victory in Argentina noted: “it is Donald Trump’s moment.”
Trump himself promised to visit Milei in Argentina, following Milei’s insurgent victory.
Trump, during his first go-around as President, certainly exhibited all the failings of a political neophyte.
But his policies were aimed squarely at making Nationalism, rather than Globalism, a driver of decision-making.
Despite opposition from his own party as well as Democrats, he fought to build hundreds of miles of new wall along the southern U.S. border, and kept the country out of any new major wars or foreign war funding.
He also held China more to account than previous Presidents, for skirting reciprocal trade agreements that were part of China’s c. 2001 entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO).
After four years of Biden era destabilizing immigration levels that have Democrat controlled cities crying uncle, mind-boggling war spending, runaway inflation and mega billion, badly failing “green energy” transition policies, Trump is polling higher and higher with a simple message: was 2016 to 2019 better than 2021 to 2023?
He has promised to aggressively stem the tide of illegal immigration, and to nix radical climate agenda targets laid out in the recent COP28 climate conference.
Elites certainly don’t believe that there’s no difference between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, or between Javier Milei and Sergio Massa.
They’ve spent, and will continue to spend mega billions to oppose candidates that threaten their prerogatives, which consistently lead back to grinding down the middle classes of the west to a pulp.
The question is, will those middle classes see the enemy clearly, and effectively use their power to thwart a deceptive and de-human-ly destructive elitist agenda?
The decimation of long held political traditions and hard-fought freedoms that extend back to the Magna Carta, and further, back to the roots of democracy in Greek and Roman traditions, is without question the practical result of elitist immigration and climate policies.
It’s past time to more consciously see the connection between these policies, and the decimation of western middle classes.
In what the late Saddam Hussein once dubbed “the great Satan,” roughly two-thirds of the United States enlisted military corps is white . . . The fat, bulbous curry nigger, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin once confirmed in a 93-2 vote of the U.S. Senate, immediately embarked on a whirlwind media tour of duty, telling the pseudo-secular sycophants in the state-controlled tabloid press and state-controlled television talk show circuit about how the U.S. Army is full of bad racist white men.
And now the U.S. Army is doing ads begging for more young white males? What happened?
Even with a full-on declaration of war from Congress, and even if Gavin Newsome could be cheated into the Oval Office by ZOG somehow, with Globohomo diversity brigades going door-to-door looking to impress American children into military service, they will be met with armed, well-trained opposition, the invasion at the Southern border is going full tilt, and the drugs are flowing in like never before . . .
People are done fighting wars for these psychotic kikesucking Zionist ass-whores . . . With the borders of Europe and the USA wide open, civil warfare within the USA, Britain, and most of Europe is a certainty if foreign wars are initiated. Nobody is going to fight a war for Biden, he is dumber than Bush . . . Nobody is going to fight a war for that kikesucking Zionist ass-whore Nikki Haley, and I mean nobody.
Get ready for it . . . the fat old devil worshipping fags on Capitol Hill, on Wall Street, in Whitehall, and in Brussels are in no shape to fight a war themselves, and most Americans are armed to the teeth with their own guns . . . https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/satanism-is-a-jewish-cult
Love you Gerald