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What Europeans and Americans Really Want
American Greatness ^ | 17 Jun, 2024 | Laura Hollis

Posted on 06/17/2024 5:19:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber

None of these demands are "far right" or unreasonable. What's shocking is that ordinary people are having to fight their own governments to reestablish rights and standards of living.

In last week’s European Parliamentary elections, citizens in country after country rejected left-wing policies. Predictably, left-leaning major media outlets across the globe—the Associated Press, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vox, Politico, the Guardian—decried these results as Europe “lurching” to the “far right.” Vox warned that the success of right-wing parties was the result of “increasing authoritarianism and non-democratic trends” throughout the world and warned that these trends were “deeply associated with fascism and Nazism.”

Talk about gaslighting and projection.

Oh, yeah—there’s plenty of “authoritarianism and non-democratic” activity going on in Europe (and in the United States). But it’s not coming from the political right.

So, what do these election results mean? What do Europeans really want?

1. Self-determination and responsive elected officials. British voters voted to leave the European Union in 2016 not because they don’t consider themselves part of Europe but because they were (and are) sick and tired of having policies crammed down their throats by unelected Eurocrats. The rest of Europe is now sending a similar message: do what European citizens want or be defeated.

2. An end to the rampant migration of people from non-European nations. Much more so than America, European countries have distinct cultures tied to ethnicity and history. The influx of millions of people from countries with vastly different cultures—many of which are inconsistent with western European values—has impacted their cultural identity, compromised the safety of their citizens, created “no-go” zones of crime and violence, and strained their coffers to the breaking point.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: eu; euelections; farrightwins; uselections

1 posted on 06/17/2024 5:19:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Why do citizens have to fight their own governments for this?


2 posted on 06/17/2024 5:19:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

I can’t get to the continuation of the article, just get a bunch of pop up advertising.


3 posted on 06/17/2024 5:32:39 AM PDT by yldstrk ( )
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To: MtnClimber

“What’s shocking is that ordinary people are having to fight their own governments to reestablish rights and standards of living.”

Really? It’s what the American revolution was about. Then the wealth sovereigns were the monarchy.

Wealth sovereigns should be prohibited from government and politics. They’re too disconnected from the common man to be involved in their governance.


4 posted on 06/17/2024 5:32:41 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: MtnClimber

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.”

Lord Acton.

Trump, like George Washington, is an all too rare exception.


5 posted on 06/17/2024 5:34:08 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: MtnClimber

Diversity is extremely overrated. Woke is a deception to tear apart functioning societies. Make the “public servants” just that. Enough of this arrogant, no-integrity, condescending BS. Most clear-thinking people have had enough of this modern/woke/globalist corruption and societal rot.


6 posted on 06/17/2024 5:34:09 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: MtnClimber

https://www.arcamax.com/politics/fromtheright/laurahollis/s-3285981


7 posted on 06/17/2024 5:42:37 AM PDT by yldstrk ( )
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To: yldstrk

It is a Creators Syndicate copyright article so I could not post the entire article. Some browsers have problems with popups on this site. I don’t have any popups there.


8 posted on 06/17/2024 5:42:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s fine, I posted a link to another place to read it.


9 posted on 06/17/2024 5:43:56 AM PDT by yldstrk ( )
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To: yldstrk

See the link in post #7. It is the same article on a different site.


10 posted on 06/17/2024 5:45:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: yldstrk

OK, sorry, I sent you a message about the link, but I did not see that it was also you that posted the link.


11 posted on 06/17/2024 5:46:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Thank you.


12 posted on 06/17/2024 5:47:15 AM PDT by yldstrk ( )
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To: MtnClimber

No problem, you were being nice and I appreciate that.


13 posted on 06/17/2024 5:47:52 AM PDT by yldstrk ( )
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To: yldstrk

In last week’s European Parliamentary elections, citizens in country after country rejected left-wing policies. Predictably, left-leaning major media outlets across the globe—the Associated Press, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vox, Politico, the Guardian—decried these results as Europe “lurching” to the “far right.” Vox warned that the success of right-wing parties was the result of “increasing authoritarianism and non-democratic trends” throughout the world and warned that these trends were “deeply associated with fascism and Nazism.”

Talk about gaslighting and projection.

Oh, yeah—there’s plenty of “authoritarianism and non-democratic” activity going on in Europe (and in the United States). But it’s not coming from the political right.

So, what do these election results mean? What do Europeans really want?

1. Self-determination and responsive elected officials. British voters voted to leave the European Union in 2016 not because they don’t consider themselves part of Europe but because they were (and are) sick and tired of having policies crammed down their throats by unelected Eurocrats. The rest of Europe is now sending a similar message: do what European citizens want or be defeated.

2. An end to the rampant migration of people from non-European nations. Much more so than America, European countries have distinct cultures tied to ethnicity and history. The influx of millions of people from countries with vastly different cultures—many of which are inconsistent with western European values—has impacted their cultural identity, compromised the safety of their citizens, created “no-go” zones of crime and violence, and strained their coffers to the breaking point. Europeans are tired of being told that people from other regions are entitled to be proud of their cultures but wanting to preserve their own culture is racist.

3. An end to bogus “climate change” policies that are thinly veiled justifications to return Europe to feudalism. Environmental regulations are strangling agriculture, and protests by farmers in Ireland, the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Germany have made the public’s viewpoints clear. Clean air and water are fine; “carbon-neutral” aspirations will thrust the continent into famine, while those who spout this nonsense at tony conferences in Davos will continue to enjoy their Wagyu beef, private jets, yachts and “sustainably sourced” diamonds.

4. An end to the war in Ukraine and the irresponsible saber-rattling at Russia, which is intended to provoke yet another world war that will kill tens of millions of Europeans while enriching international financiers and multinational defense contractors. Europeans don’t want war with Russia. Russia doesn’t want war with Europe.

Just as Brexit was a preview of the 2016 presidential election in America, the 2024 European Parliamentary elections seem to mirror America’s political mood this year.

So, what do Americans want?

1. Americans want a return to constitutional governance, law enforcement policies that reflect legitimate respect for the rule of law, and limits to federal power—particularly the unelected bureaucrats in the three-letter agencies (part of what is referred to as the “Deep State”).

2. We want national sovereignty on internal matters—including public health—and the elimination of any control globalist organizations like the United Nations or the World Economic Forum seek to impose. That means no absurd treaties ceding control to the World Health Organization for the next “pandemic” cooked up in China, Ukraine or anywhere else.

3. We want an immediate end to illegal immigration and an indefinite hiatus to legal immigration. All the blather about “climate-induced migration” is obfuscation; “open borders” is a fundamentally Marxist policy driven by a deep resentment of what Americans—including millions of Americans whose families arrived here from someplace else—have successfully created. (Remember former President Barack Obama’s infamous message to entrepreneurs and business owners in America? “You didn’t build that.”) The Biden administration is actually doubling down on Obama’s ideology vis-a-vis immigration; allowing unlimited numbers of the world’s poor to enter the United States and handing them benefits is just wealth redistribution writ large.

Americans see it, and they are fed up. America’s veterans, our elderly, our homeless, our own poor and those suffering with addiction and mental illness go without, while this administration hands billions of taxpayer dollars to foreigners who pour across the border. How serious are Americans on this issue? Poll after poll shows that immigration—not abortion or climate change—is the No. 1 issue for Americans going into the 2024 elections. And a recent CBS poll showed that 62% of registered voters support deporting all illegal immigrants.

4. Americans want policies that punish criminals and protect the innocent. While the Justice Department has been investigating Catholics who attend the Latin Mass, incarcerating J6 protesters without due process, and sending 75-year-old grannies praying outside abortion clinics to prison, violent criminals (including the ones pouring across the border) are allowed back out on the streets, often without bail.

5. Americans also want an end to the “climate change” power grabs, including the elimination of federal and state regulations mandating electric vehicles and banning gas-powered appliances; avoidance of the failed agricultural policies being imposed in Europe (and that destroyed the agricultural production of Sri Lanka); and control over our own energy production and consumption. Like Europeans, Americans want a clean environment but refuse to believe we must destroy our economy, starve to death or hand control over every aspect of our lives to a bunch of aspiring dictators to get it.

None of these demands are “far right” or unreasonable. What’s shocking is that ordinary people are having to fight their own governments to reestablish rights and standards of living that were once considered cornerstones of Western civilization.

The 2024 elections are just the beginning. Authoritarians who have managed to entrench their control over the United States and countries in Europe need to be defeated once and for all, and the ideologies motivating them need to be ripped out of our politics and our educational systems root and branch.


14 posted on 06/17/2024 5:52:39 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: MtnClimber
"Why do citizens have to fight their own governments for this?"

Simple analogy:

While the idea behind an HOA may be rooted in the best of intentions, and indeed some may be decent and benign, there are plenty of horror stories of HOAs being run by people who are capricious, vindictive, and have managed to weasel their way into those positions for wielding power over others.

Its human nature.
Plenty of writings by the founding fathers regarding separation of powers, checks and balances, etc., because they knew the tendency of the more rapacious among humanity to gravitate towards power.

I'll posit another theory: what we're seeing is a manifestation of Woodrow Wilson's vision of an administrative State, accountable to no one but itself. At its head is what is nicknamed the 'Deep State'--a conglomeration of certain 'private sector' individuals (Gates, Zuckerberg, Soros), the IC, and polticians who are 'on board' with the program (or so thoroughly compromised they 'do what they're told or else).

I've been thinking of the pearl clutching if Trump were to publically state he is not interested in debating Joe Biden, but rather Biden's puppet masters hiding in the shadows. Framed correctly, it would put those scumbags in a quandary on how to respind, if they did at all.

But back to the subject of fighting government--we have to because of decades of apathy, cowardice, and honestly, a lack of principles.

15 posted on 06/17/2024 5:55:34 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: Carriage Hill

Bless you.


16 posted on 06/17/2024 6:00:32 AM PDT by yldstrk ( )
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To: Carriage Hill
What’s shocking is that ordinary people are having to fight their own governments to reestablish rights and standards of living that were once considered cornerstones of Western civilization.

Exactly!

17 posted on 06/17/2024 7:19:52 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: MtnClimber

“Why do citizens have to fight their own governments for this?”

Because guillotines are outlawed?


18 posted on 06/17/2024 9:57:08 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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