Posted on 01/10/2024 5:26:28 AM PST by Twotone
I don’t typically go where I’m not wanted, but I do tend to go where I’m needed.
So I was intrigued by the invitation to attend a globalist sleepaway camp in the beautiful Swiss Alps — some pop-up utopia called Davos. At first, it sounded as dreadful as a road trip with the New York Times editorial board.
The infamous hypocritical self-avowed Marxists, private-jet environmentalists, and genocide-adjacent humanitarians want to hear from the Heritage Foundation how they can “rebuild trust” with everyday Americans against whom they have weaponized their institutions.
The biblical principle “cast not your pearls before swine” came to mind. But a deeply meaningful part of my role at Heritage is to represent the voice of millions of forgotten men and women across this country. We are the everyday American’s outpost in Washington, D.C. So I could happily — while admittedly dreadingly — hop across the Atlantic to the land where leftist elites indulge fellow insufferable elites and be a voice on the world stage sharing inconvenient truths.
And here is what I’m going to tell them.
First, trust must be earned. Global elites have not merely failed on that score. They have squandered the vast reserves of credibility they inherited from their institutional predecessors. The media, the academy, government agencies, international organizations, corporations, and the arts have traded in centuries’ worth of public trust in exchange for unaccountable, ideological exploitation of the people they claim to serve.
Sooner or later, the everyday citizens, workers, and families who shoulder the burdens of Davos-style global elitism will reclaim their individual rights and national sovereignty.
National leaders at this conference openly reject the nation-state. They refuse to secure their own besieged borders. Scholars and journalists openly subordinate facts to serve partisan ends that undermine transparency and choice for their citizens. Generals promote woke politics over military readiness. Corporate executives ship jobs overseas to tyrants like China’s Xi Jinping while lecturing their own countrymen about “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” Artists and entertainers celebrate each other's sneering contempt for the people and values that fuel their privileged lives.
There is no mystery here. Around the world, people distrust global elites because they hate us. They use their power to disempower us and their cultural influence to smear anyone who questions their self-serving corruption.
This is the common virtue of constitutionalism, republicanism, nationalism, and free enterprise, as they are traditionally practiced in the United States. They subject elites’ ambitions to the authority of the people instead of the other way around. This arrangement is good for the world and for every person who has ever embraced it. But it is uniquely frustrating to elites, who resist checks on their power and resent accountability to “the unwashed masses” — which, of course, is the point.
Unchecked, centralized power leads to tyranny. And the disasters compound the farther the power drifts (or is untethered) from the people.
To regain trust, then, Davos must accept the moral virtues, practical benefits, and natural rights of individual nations (and, ultimately families and individuals) to govern themselves. No serious person believes that the global elites' grand moral stands over the last generation — bowing to China, erasing borders, worshipping climate extremism — just so happened to serve their class interests at the direct expense of ordinary people’s democratic sovereignty and economic opportunity.
Our fractured and fractious world doesn’t need any more lectures about “openness” from the people who covered up COVID-19’s origins and then locked down people’s lives for a year. Or about “disinformation” from people who spent weeks defending Harvard University’s plagiarist president. Or about diversity from a hermetically insulated claque of race-hustling, anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic bigots.
What we need is nothing more than the freedom to govern ourselves.
That is what Brexit, Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, Javier Milei, Geert Wilders, and the rising global tide of populist, patriotic conservatism represents. Nationalism — love of one’s own nation and culture and a policymaking preference for one’s own people and customs — cannot be erased and will not be trampled. It must be respected.
Trust is a choice.
Sooner or later, the everyday citizens, workers, and families who shoulder the burdens of Davos-style global elitism will reclaim their individual rights and national sovereignty. The only question is whether our elites can pivot their corrupt institutions back toward trust and trustworthiness before “We, the People” take matters into our own hands.
Those attending the World Economic Forum need to hear this message. And that’s why I’m going to Davos.
At Davos last year Manchin and Sinema high-fived each other then Sinema left the Democrats to go Independent and now Manchin is leaving the Senate.
Both moves help the Mitch McConnell led Republicans in the Senate.
Davos helped the RINOs IMHO.
Is that what the speaker will *really* tell them?
Livestream the presentation and have cameras pan the audience so we can see attends and stays through the entire presentation.
I could have saved them a lot of time. My presentation would have consisted of two words.
Mine would be three that describe an anatomically impossible act.
Someone, tell Kevin Robets, “Never hobnob with the enemy or give them advice on how veil their true intentions.”
There is nothing about the ends and means of WEF that is compatible with the western values that have brought the world from Europe across North America and to many of our Western Pacific allies to the level of prosperity we have attained. Now that prosperity has certainly provided fertile ground for the seeds of our own destruction because with prosperity comes a disinclination for the hard work and rededication to values needed to sustain it you know like learning the technology and tradecraft needed to fix things and invent things.
Tell them we are coming with our pitch forks, torches, boiling tar and feathers guillotines, etc.
These people need to understand that a man adding a woman to his place can double his household income.
A man is most like to find a mate when most of the women he meets are culturally compatible.
DEI is just slow-motion genocide for the traditional residents of the West.
Reducing the price of lettuce by 10 cents a head will not compensate for not having a second income to help pay the bills.
“Prosperity”
What am I doing now?
Using the Free Republic blog.
That can be done from Honduras too.
Nail guns work in Honduras too. And so do cement mixers and trowels for masons. They have trees and stone in Honduras. Mahogany can be made into beautiful furniture.
The WEF should work to make the entire world prosperous and not try to turn Western cities into colder versions of Lagos and Ciudad Juarez.
They will listen with plugged ears!
Does the writer really believe the elites will listen to him and reverse their course? Naw...won’t happen. And we, the people will never trust these institutions again. Not for a long time. Bridges were burnt and steel/wood is too expensive these days to rebuild those bridges.
“To regain trust, then, Davos must accept the moral virtues, practical benefits, and natural rights of individual nations (and, ultimately families and individuals) to govern themselves”
You already blow it Davos regaining trust? They never had it before. That unelected group of self appointed schemers has no place in how our lives should unfold.
By attending, you are a well out. You are a sell out for even being invited.
The Taliban did not use any of those, but they still beat the US military.
The governments of Afghan cities all folded upon Taliban demand.
Is this The head of the Heritage Foundation? That place is invited to Davos? As long as assclowns like him attend, heritage is trash. He’s dignifying the very existence of Davos.
Davos was organized by the son of a Nazi and is attended by power mad globalists and billionaires…. And zippy it’s going to soak and set them straight over prime beef steaks and wine.
Idiot
I’m strongly opposed to the continued massive funding of the US military.
The Founding Fathers knew the dangers of standing armies.
I recall after the Great Recession there were quite a few Americans and others that moved to Ecuador. It was featured several times on House Hunters International. Lots of gringos moved there to the pacific coastal towns because you could buy an oceanfront condo for $150K or less.
“There is no mystery here. Around the world, people distrust global elites because they hate us. ”
You’re attending Davos…. You are talking about “elites”. Think that all the way through. You won’t be changing them. You got seduced like an idiot picked up in a bar. When you’re biting the pillow you gonna stop and think about how you wound up in their globalist bed?
This is just another NGO funded by rich guys located in the swamp, the directors and employees of whom get lulled into thinking that sitting around talking over catered dinners and wine in nice swampy places they will advance the cause of libertarianism or it's constitutional conservative cousins.
Just by showing up at these things and recognizing the power and influence of extraconstitutional governance organizations you are drowning the casuse in swamp water.
“If the elevation doesn’t take your breath away, the cost of attending WEF will. As Amex says, membership has its privileges. And before you can buy a ticket for 19 grand, you must be a member of the Economic Forum which costs a mere 52,000. And remember, that’s only if you’re invited.”
So basically, this story is that the Heritage Foundation squanders donations on WEF membership and attendance.
The fool
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