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How Much Longer Can Western Governments Spit on Their People?
American Thinker ^ | 30 Mar, 2023 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 03/30/2023 4:41:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber

From COVID to currency collapse, Western powers insist on escaping blame. It can't last forever.

Labor strikes and fiery riots dominate French news after King Macron's imperial decision to raise the nation's retirement age without any vote from parliament. In reaction to spiraling inflation, German transportation workers shut down the country on Monday in one of the largest European walkouts in decades. In the Netherlands, a new anti-globalist, pro-farmer political party fighting back against the World Economic Forum's climate change–obsessed "Great Reset" agenda just dominated Dutch elections. In "defiance of establishment elites," Italians chose Giorgia Meloni to free the nation from subjugation to Brussels and "defend God, country, and family." And as left-wing protesters in Israel threaten civil war, Prime Minister Netanyahu has been forced to temporarily suspend his efforts to reform the nation's powerful Judiciary, which operates largely free from competing checks and balances. Clearly, revolution is in the air.

If you thought incendiary political turmoil threatened to combust only in the United States these days, then you have missed the growing protest movements throughout the collective West. From belated pushback against government COVID tyranny in New Zealand and Australia to percolating hostility across the European continent stemming from the ruling class's "Build Back Better" pipe dreams, State-sanctioned illegal immigration, and costly "green" energy–induced inflation, there is a powder keg of popular resentment against governing authorities just one spark away from a history-altering explosion.

If one were to diagnose the source of this amalgamating revolutionary fervor as succinctly as possible, two words come to mind: government haughtiness. Western governments today have committed themselves to expanding centralized authority and global institutions, while dismissing individual nations' concerns and the public's cries to have their wants and needs be heard. Rather than recalling the lessons from two disastrous world wars that demonstrated...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: despotism; dissent; leftism; tyranny; west
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1 posted on 03/30/2023 4:41:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The US needs to follow the path that the Netherlands just took.


2 posted on 03/30/2023 4:41:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Elections are corrupt.

Republican politicians are cowards.


3 posted on 03/30/2023 4:48:45 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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Multiculturalism creates a “low trust” society which allows elites to roll over the will of the people


4 posted on 03/30/2023 4:52:30 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: MtnClimber

A nice thought. But I’ll betcha dollars to donuts that the Netherlands has fair and fraud free elections. And if they don’t it’s nowhere near the scale we are seeing in the US.


5 posted on 03/30/2023 4:53:17 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (You can never have enough clamps. Thanks Ben.)
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To: MtnClimber

Maybe it’s been this way forever, but all those school board videos seem like symbols of “government haughtiness”…with poor parents pleading their causes to cold, bored patricians.


6 posted on 03/30/2023 4:53:38 AM PDT by avenir ("They sang His praise...they soon forgot His works")
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To: MtnClimber

The ultimate move by Governments around the world especially in the USA would be start a war that would reset things.


7 posted on 03/30/2023 5:06:39 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: MtnClimber

“How much longer can governments of Western cultures spit on their people?”
As long as we let them.


8 posted on 03/30/2023 5:08:57 AM PDT by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars. A Man, and proud of it!)
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How Much Longer Can Western Governments Spit on Their People?

As long as the people are resisting only in the "Arena Of Ideas"

9 posted on 03/30/2023 5:11:14 AM PDT by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)
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To: escapefromboston

You got it.

These communists never “won” any elections. They simply diluted the people’s votes that they couldn’t win with “immigrants” who voted in lock step for communist handouts. And none dared call it treason.


10 posted on 03/30/2023 5:26:30 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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How Much Longer Can Western Governments Spit on Their People?

Until the people have had enough and fight back. 'Fight back' meaning ... whatever you want it to mean.

11 posted on 03/30/2023 5:33:52 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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there is a powder keg of popular resentment against governing authorities just one spark away from a history-altering explosion.

And there are a whole bunch of people who deserve to have that proverbial powder keg blow up in their arrogant, corrupt, tyrannical faces.

12 posted on 03/30/2023 5:41:26 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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The US needs to follow the path that the Netherlands just took.

Most of Europe doesn't allow mail in ballots, except in very rare circumstances

13 posted on 03/30/2023 5:50:07 AM PDT by 11th_VA (XX < > XY)
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To: stinkerpot65

“Elections are corrupt.

Republican politicians are cowards.”

Two simple sentences speaking the absolute truth.


14 posted on 03/30/2023 6:04:19 AM PDT by redfreedom (You can vote your way into socialism, but you may have to shoot your way out.)
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To: 11th_VA

For as long as it takes to bring about the new world order. The future will look like China under Mao.


15 posted on 03/30/2023 6:05:28 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: MtnClimber

As long as THEY have the power to control our finances and maintain more fire-power than us, they’re gonna continue and increase the spit with every new day..


16 posted on 03/30/2023 6:25:55 AM PDT by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: stinkerpot65

“Elections are corrupt.” - YES

“Republican politicians are cowards.“ - nahh, they’re just as corrupt as their democrat counterparts. They don’t mind being 2nd place ‘winners’. They STILL get their share of the spoils and can claim no responsibility…”we tried, but just don’t have a majority..aww, shucks people.. I guess you’re screwed - again…”
(We citizens are the only ‘losers’)


17 posted on 03/30/2023 6:30:52 AM PDT by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: MtnClimber

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18 posted on 03/30/2023 7:26:24 AM PDT by gattaca (Either you will control your government, or government will control you. Ronald Reagan)
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To: MtnClimber

As long as 51% of the idiots call it “rain” while collecting their welfare.


19 posted on 03/30/2023 7:31:14 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: MtnClimber
To quote Aimee Mann (an unabashed leftist, but occasionally and accidentally insightful), It's not going to stop, until you wise up.

And there are a lot of people who are oblivious to what is going on around them because they have their marijuana and are allowed to indulge sexual desires. For many people, that is the red line. That's why the Democrats have gone all in on abortion rights and all the LGBT silliness.

20 posted on 03/30/2023 7:40:15 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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