Posted on 01/14/2024 4:11:02 AM PST by MtnClimber
And we are doing the same sort of thing to please those who want to see us destroyed.
No...not really.
The German farmer protest is completely about the diesel fuel subsidy that ‘existed’ and was wiped out when the Constitutional Court said the supplemental budget of 2021 (for Covid stuff)...could not be used for farmer subsidy situations.
One the government figures out how much support that the public offers to the farmer agenda (running around 60 to 65 percent in public opinion)....the subsidy will be reinvented in some fashion...by screwing over some group or agenda.
> a massive shift to conservativism in the Dutch government during the last election <
True that. But it’s worth noting that the center-left parties are trying to deny the prime ministership to conservative candidate Geert Wilders. And it looks like they will be successful.
Perhaps the next election will put Wilders over the top. But that election is long off.
Part of me would like to see the farmers just sit out a season or two and let the liberal cities starve to death. Let the, oh so wise liberals, in big cities who know best how to rule the food supply grow their own food in their luxury apartments in New York, Copenhagen, Berlin, and Seattle.
“They are, in many ways, a very self-apologetic, self-loathing people.”
Japan took the opposite approach, which was to ignore their WW2 past.
But who comes out ahead? Germany’s guilt has become suicidal-level where, in 30 years, they will either be a Muslim country, or they will have another bloodbath in their history to deal with. Japan’s only probably is their low birthrate - and no, it doesn’t take a civil war to solve it - it only takes turning back the clock so women can better be ‘encouraged’ to play their proper role in society.
We also allowed Japan to keep their emperor.
If we had done the same with The Kaiser after WWI, there would have been no Hitler.
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