A post by Pat
Millions of Europeans are yearning for a strong leader. Old habits die hard.
Last week there was a huge general strike. A BBC reporter paints a picture that resembles the 1930′s when hyperinflation and mass unemployment created the age of the dictators. There is an emotional climate of anger and frustration with governments. He assures us the “old ideological certainties” are not the motivation. The crowds are yearning for a government that cares, a leader who has a clear plan that has a chance of working. Europeans don’t have a good track record when it comes to picking leaders with a plan.
Angry Europeans Look For Direction
Red flags fluttered over France in their thousands as more than a million people – three million if you believe the organisers – took to the streets in Thursday’s general strike.
A little later, in Brussels, the most important politicians in Europe gathered to discuss the economic upheaval that provoked the street protests, the crisis they themselves have labelled “one of the most important challenges ever to face the European Union”.
Inside the Left party office there’s a poster on the wall, a cartoon of a cheerful and determined-looking Karl Marx tipping his top hat – that top hat again – and saying “Good day, I am back.”
But the voices I hear on the streets are not calling for old ideological certainties.
At each protest there is a different language, different details – but the same emotions. In the past politicians were seen as irrelevant, now they are perceived as crucial. …
All the people I talk to perched on their tractors, waving their banners – done out in fancy dress that makes one point or another – are looking to their governments for solutions. They expect men and women wiser than themselves to come up with answers, but feel those on offer are not up to the job. They mourn the fact that there is no leader with a map, a compass and a purpose, who can offer some hope that there is a way out of the swamp.
These are times ripe for political exploitation by the old ideological certainties no matter how cleverly disguised. Leftwing groups which are well-schooled in the art of street agitation have never had a better opportunity in our country. People are stressed, worried and angry. Government is irresponsible. I pray our old habits have not died. The American solution is not a strong leader. It is a nation of strong individuals.
America, Behold the European scene! Look at the benefits of nationalized democratic socialism.
Look at the benefits of the womb to tomb welfare state; especially the Welfare Welcome Wagons that greeted the illegal and temporary immigration. Look at the collosal cloud of identity confusion provided by the bureaucrats of the European Union.
American, Behold our historical struggles to guarantee an integrated society. Now, behold the ethnic enclaves that have gained exclusiveness within national boundaries. Look at just Denmark, Holland, Belgium; the toy and storied lands who pay more than 40% on immigrant or non-native welfare. (Yes, I said non-native. Those who are ethnically ‘apart’ Dane-born go directly onto welfare without day one of industry to pay for themselves.)
Yes, America. Behold the merits of democratic socialism and think about them.
As they strain for memories to save themselves, and are questioning the blunders of cultural surrender, we, my fellow Americans are blindly being lured, with eyes wide-shut, twitters running up our legs, indulging in the intoxication of lies, fearful of the nightmares from thought, fearful of individual courage, we march into the same morass.
To be kind to those who are not quite as dumbed-down as the majority of America’s voting public, take and use the examples in every effort to secure freedom and rights in this country. Whether it be racial equity, gay rights, employment safety, conservation, or fair-pricing, wages and tariffs; the left, those who would advocate for Europe’s democratic socialism, always came late to the table.
The model that American “Statists” (new term I heard form Levine) has created the greatest unrest in Europe since WWII, has marginalized more people since the Inquisition, and destroyed landed wealth at a greater pace than the United States wastes on foreign oil (and we know how happy we are to do that , don’t we.).
Well, Pat, to follow up, you see now how both the EU and NATO are all quivering. I will follow with your quote.
But first, look at what’s happened in Europe when individuals defer to the socialist state and the state morphs into a blender called the European Union. Unpopular in the eyes of countries’ citizens, but pushed by their socialist governments.
For us, I join you, “I pray our old habits have not died. The American solution is not a strong leader. It is a nation of strong individuals.”
Pat, thank you. I will remember and say that prayer.