Posted on 06/07/2018 5:42:35 PM PDT by Politically Correct
The 21st century is reminding of us of some uncomfortable truths. Abroad, recent controversies over the rise of Chinese mercantilism, the specter of Iranian and North Korean nuclear weapons, tensions in the European Union, the calcified Palestinian question, mass migrations, and the resurgence of Islamic terrorism all offer a number of lessons. At home, just as instructive is the strange juxtaposition between Obamas suave progressivism and Trumps coarse conservatism. Here are 10 takeaways from our current controversies.
The Western world is in turmoil largely because of the widening gap between what the people see as true and the truth that their governing classes impose on them for the purported greater moral good. The result is a schizophrenia like that seen before the collapse of the Soviet Empire, in which no one believed that the reality they lived had anything to do with the reality delivered by the media and the state. Trumpism and popular movements in Europe are simply symptoms of another problemthat what the ruling elite said was true was often a lie.
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“The Western world is in turmoil largely because of the widening gap between what the people see as true and the truth that their governing classes impose on them for the purported greater moral good. The result is a schizophrenia like that seen before the collapse of the Soviet Empire, in which no one believed that the reality they lived had anything to do with the reality delivered by the media and the state. Trumpism and popular movements in Europe are simply symptoms of another problemthat what the ruling elite said was true was often a lie.”
30 years in the future historians will say that Fake News became the norm. Real news ceased to be reported because no organization had the guts to buck the liberal media complex.
I like VDH. I know he's not entirely on the Trump Train, but he's a true intellectual (in the best sense.)
For later.
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Muslims are the perfect population for a dystopian state because Muslims are naturally suited to submit to non-elected authority, and if there's an election they can be counted on to vote as a block.
If you're a true European with no third-world heritage, your rulers just want you to hurry up and DIE, because they've already selected your replacements and are in a hurry to complete their "upgrade".
Dead - emphasis on dead - right.
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