Ping. Very good stuff from VDH.
Hence Brexit, Trump, Morrison, etc.
The elites assert that Farage, Trump, Morrison, et al are _causing_ the “uprising”. They’re not of course: they are the results of an uprising...
Federal agencies here. Exactly the same.
Great article! Exactly what is happening here. Exactly. We’re upset because, basically, the ultra-rich elite are trying to get rid of us and bring in the millions of poor from other countries who have made better slaves.
“If Western nations were really so bad, and so flawed at their founding, why were millions of non-Westerners risking their lives to reach Western soil?”
no, we are not resentful of the wealthy, we are resentful that the elites are so smug and so stupid.
‘Western middle classes’ as the author calls them, are so tired of picking up the tab for all the social debris who refuse to take responsibility for themselves
The virtue signaling global socialist Gaia worshipers will never give up. They will have to be beaten back every step of the way.
Gov workers are immune from layoffs, firings, declining wages that their policies beget.
He gets it.
Excellent! Everyone should read this.
In many of these cases -- the "Yellow Jacket" movement in France, for example -- the popular uprising isn't being carried out by people who are tired of government bureaucrats running their lives. Most of these people actually want their government to do MORE ... but for THEM, not for the elites or the immigrants.
"Freedom" sailed away from these people a long time ago. They never even noticed that it was gone.
“the anger directed at them will only increase until they give up — or finally succeed in their grand agenda of a non-democratic, all-powerful Orwellian state.”
There’s a third possibility but Mr. Hansen is too polite to say it.
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Never forget when Charles Rangel let the cat out of the bag in a discussion with Robert Reich over what to do with the “stimulus” money.
Reich, speaking of “shovel ready” projects:
“I am concerned, as I’m sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers…I have nothing against white male construction workers, I’m just saying there are other people who have needs as well.”
To which Rangel replied:
“And one thing you can depend on, you don’t have to be worried about what the middle-class is gonna do. Things are so bad. They have to put food on their tables. Clothes for their kids. Get them in school. I think this is a tremendous opportunity for a stronger America.”
This is what POLITICIANS...ALL OF THEM.....think of us.
Perhaps the worm is finally turning. Only time will tell.
The collectivist scum that seem to hold all the microphones these days never stop denigrating the normals, falsely advising the of racism, sexism, etc. ad nauseum, and falsely stealing credit for what they've achieved (you didn't build that), so why wouldn't they be angry?
That anger coexists with a feeling that those leftists are too stupid to count, almost too stupid to exist, and not worthy of notice.
A few years ago, Thomas Jefferson described this perfectly and more eloquently and succinctly:
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
There is a HUGE flaw in VDH’s otherwise fine article. He constantly says “The ELITES did this or that to their own benefit.” What he fails to explain is ELITES, by and large, means DEMOCRATS (at least in the U.S.) and leftists. I don’t know if VDH is still a Democrat, but perhaps this is a blind spot in his thinking.
He is taking a global view in this essay, so perhaps the word “elitists” is more apt on the word stage. But, throughout the world, “elitists” generally means “far left utopian kooks” which, in the U.S. is the province of Democrats.
Well, being spat on, taken advantage of, and ignored for decades do that people...
For liberals, fair is everyone having an equal share. For conservatives, it is proportionality.
For liberals, exclusion via nationality is oppression and unfair. To conservatives, saying take care of your own poor first is loyalty to the group and fair.
The perfect dichotomy is California saying we’ll charge native born middle class Americans the Obamacare fee so we can provide healthcare to illegal immigrants.
To liberals, this is taking care of poor, helpless and oppressed undocumented Americans. To conservatives, you’re stealing from the middle class to subsidize lawbreakers.