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.
“They have had to bring the Army in to help because the police are overwelmend.”
States had militias back in 1776.
“libertarian”
Flooding the US with low-skilled people who will typically vote leftist is a very bad idea.
“States had militias back in 1776.”
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What does 1776 and militias have to do with the country of ECUADOR ?
If I lived in a big white house in DC, I’d be a bit more careful about letting young men of gang age enter the US.
“What does 1776 and militias have to do with the country of ECUADOR ?”
The comment I was responding to implied the US needed standing armies because it might have a drug gang problem of the same magnitude as Ecuador.
All of them still want us dead.
If I werethe bastard son of a communist dictator leading a big cold country where they talk funny, I’d be reluctant to allow in refugees from a place where people are taught from the youngest age to viscerally hate, and yearn to kill, their enemies, yet that’s happening, too
A big mistake.
These people are willing to destroy the USA to promote an agenda.
I suspect this is how they subverted key GOP Senators.
The Ruling Class doesn’t share power.
The OP left off the other half of that statement: they not only hate us, they want most of us dead and the rest of us in chains.
Reminds me of Columbia in the 1980s-90s.
In regards to letting in young men from around the world into the southern border even the Liberals/Dems now realize this is a bad idea. This uncontrolled immigration of illegal aliens has been a disaster this past few years.
When you have the mayors of a dozen major cities all complaining about it, think how bad it is for the working class people in those cities.
There is a Trump radio ad running on the Boston drive time sports radio stations I listen to on the way to work. It specifically says the Trump will stop this uncontrolled illegal immigration. That Trump will build more border wall.
If this add is running in Boston/NH market they have done the polling that this is a WINNING ISSUE that even Independents and Democrats support. That is because anyone who is not an extreme crazy nutcase leftist does not support unrestricted immigration through our southern border.
All human beings...of every race/ethnicity/nationality...prefer their own kind. The only reason why non Europeans want to settle here...and in Europe...is prosperity. They have no desire to become Americans...Canadians...Brits...Germans,etc.
Manchin is leaving the Senate under his own power to avoid the indignity of being fired. He "won" his last election with a plurality of the vote.
I don’t have trust, but I do have disgust.
“I was me who suggested that Belgrade be bombed. It was me, who suggested sending American pilots and blowing up all the bridges on the Danube.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bombing_of_the_Chinese_embassy_in_Belgrade
Guess what the Serbs did after the bridges were bombed?
They stopped foreign ships from transiting the Danube in Serbia.
Destroying the United States is part of their agenda, not just a step in promoting it.
Bring a food tester.
Twirl your bowtie harder, Kevin.
Now, THAT's a great line. I hope I remember it.
Oh, so the Ecuadoreans trying to maintain civil order are using the military. Nazis! [/sarc]
Did Kevin Robets forget that they want 90-95% of us dead?
Ethnically pure nation states are a fairly recent development in Europe.
Up until 1918, Europe was largely comprised of multi-ethnic states, including the British, French, German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Ottoman Empires. Even Italy can be considered multi-ethnic, with Lombardy and Sicily being quite different.
Nationalism was an outcome of the degenerating Austro-Hungarian Empire with the various ethnic populations from Czechs to Serbs developing their identities during the last half of the 19th Century. Zionism as a Jewish nationalism was one component of this movement.
Nationalism was brought to full flower by the idiot Woodrow Wilson and his insistence on self-determination by ethnic groups.
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