Posted on 11/08/2024 10:53:22 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In December 2019, I traveled to Hong Kong, where a heavy unease hung in the air. For months, young people had taken to the streets to protest the encroachment of the Chinese Communist Party on what was supposed to be a self-governing, democratic system. On walls they’d scrawled: “Save Hong Kong! If we burn you burn with us!” All the protesters I spoke to knew their movement would fail; it was a last assertion of democratic identity before it was extinguished by a new order which saw democracy as the enemy within.
I met with a government official preparing to resign and told him I was writing a book about the rise of authoritarian nationalism. “The nationalism in the U.S. and Europe is somewhat different,” he told me. “Yours started with the financial crisis in 2008. That’s when liberalism started to lose its appeal, when people saw this wasn’t working. The narrative of liberalism and democracy collapsed. This spilled over into China, too. This is when China started to think — should we really follow a Western model?” We were sitting in a hotel lounge, the invisible forces he described surrounding us: capitalism, but not democracy; cultural elites cloistered away from the working class. “The nationalist movements in East and West were both a response to the collapse of the Western model,” he added.
Everything I’d experienced told me he was right. Eight years serving in the Obama White House after the financial crisis felt like swimming upstream, against the currents of global politics. A radicalized Republican Party rejected liberal democracy at home, mirroring far-right leaders like Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary who spoke about installing “illiberal democracy” (a polite term for “blood and soil” nationalism) across Europe. In Russia, Vladimir Putin set out to undermine — if not...
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As a party interested in competent technocracy, we lost touch with the anger people feel at government.
He drops the "democracy" mask and admits they want an authoritarian "technocracy."
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
“Ben Rhodes”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
Does this denizen of the DEI world in all aspects even hear what is coming out of his mouth?
Leftists, especially those like him, are the least competent people around.
Trump’s superpower in addition to never giving up is
that his platform is common sense
Technocracy: rule by elites.
They want to be the new hereditary aristocracy.
Oh he “studies”, typical elitist telling us how smart he is.
Yeah? And "DEI" is a polite term for "no whites need apply."
The playbook for transforming a democracy into a soft autocracy was clear: Win power with a populist message against elites.
Another unintended revelation by an elitist.
Populists believe in limited government of, by and for the people.
The opposite of populism is elitism.
Elitists believe in unlimited government of, by and for an entitled, hereditary, autocratic political/bureaucratic class.
This is another made up narcissistic lie.
The US Government under Biden, and to a lesser case under Obama, has been the most incompetent at everything it has ever been OTHER then weaponizing the government against people they dislike
Trump, Musk and Eric Adams are just 3 people Biden’s regime trying to persecute of being opposed to their agenda
Ben Rhodes. Still lying to himself. Wow.
They keep winning because they don't suck.
THE END
“Yeah? And “DEI” is a polite term for “no whites need apply.””
My take is they will take a share of the smartest in each race/sex segment and train them as the elite. By having each race/sex segment equally represented in the elite, they can claim the system is fair. The worse performing ones are just baggage.
Don’t change a thing Democrat party!
Keep your focus on: abortion, racism, LBGTQ, abortion, the US is on stolen land, abortion, misogyny, white people are the devil, and abortion.
Let’s be very happy that they haven’t figured out why they lost.
And global warming
Yup—look to be hearing less and less about “democracy” in future months.
That leftist talking point has outlived its usefulness.
They will move on to another one.
Established governments grow corruption like old ship hulls grow barnacles, and if the ones entrusted with hull maintenance can't or won't scrape it, the owners will. And corruption is very much an issue with the government of the United States in its present form. Nor is it restricted to any one political party. A very great deal of public money is ending up in the pockets of a very few under the guise of war, social justice, and any other scam a very creative criminal class has devised. And what Rhodes considers competent technocrats turns out to be just one more mask worn by that criminal class. We can do this the hard way or the harder one, there is no easy way, but it's going to be done.
That's why they don't get it.
Guys like Trump win because they are real men. Not tampon-vending self-effacing wussfaces.
Well said.
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