Let Me Translate the Latest War Cry

Are we losing our democracy?

The political circus is gripping, the play before us hypnotic. Audience members drop in, forswear the brutalism of it and go back to their lives, refusing engagement, refusing to look. That’s what it’s for, to alienate you from the real stuff that goes on in the middle of nowhere, where I live.

Just before last week’s primaries, where MAGA candidates won every primary race against the old-style Republican party, despite being outspent by a factor of 10, The Guardian weighed in with a front page story.

Let me paraphrase:  FASCISM ISN’T COMING!  IT’S HERE!

Ok, so it was more complex than that with a great deal of verbiage saying that these awful pencil necked turkey farmers HAD NO RIGHT to exercise their vote because they were IGNORANT FASCISTS WITH GUNS AND THEREFORE DANGEROUS. Plus racist and homophobic.

And finally:

WE ARE LOSING OUR DEMOCRACY.

This is a slogan that has been picked up by every operative in every western democracy. State legislators appear on MSNBC frantic with fear, wall-eyed, saying the right is stealing democracy.

Expect to hear this ceaselessly for the next three years. Every hour of every day.

This is what they really mean:

When I moved to the middle of nowhere twenty years ago, I became fascinated with local politics. It seemed that there were a lot of little groups, attached like sucker fish to the giant tax eating behemoth that slid through our lives. Their aims were simple and seemingly good hearted, more waterbird protection, more water protection, more tree protection, more protection of the other sexed, more goodness towards and immigration of the huddled masses in South and Central America, more legislated feminist demands, endless demands of the schools by advocacy groups funded by teachers unions, and of course, stopping all development and industrial production because of climate change. They all had groups, they all lived on little bits of money, they were always harried and despairing. They fought a tight game. Small advances, lots of setbacks. Mostly innocent, though the enviro people had deep-buried terrorist groups who created lovely fires for any developer who particularly crossed them. But otherwise, you could invite them to tea with the Queen.

Twenty years on, they flourish with budgets of seven or eight figures, most of which they receive from the various governments they lobby, but also from the world’s greatest foundations, not to mention substantial funding from the EU, the WEF and the UN. And they are in every capital, waking up every morning for one reason: to force the government to cave to their needs. They are always attached to the bigger of the left-wing parties, who fund them big time. In the US it is the Democrats. In Canada, the Liberal Party. They are paid to act as political action committees, while posturing as neutral advocacy groups. They write legislation. And boy, have they written legislation. They developed a thousand, thousand committees which have methodically re-written laws from the extreme local to national.

No one else was present. The electorate were asleep. No one cared but them.

The ones I met were upper-middle-class, from nominally Christian households, who had been captured by the socialist dream. They called what they did a new iteration: participatory democracy. Leaders were from Britain or the US. Those seemed the most aggressive. More connected. Very little work has been done on their unnerving connectedness. Most reporters agree with their task, don’t want to dig.

The reason they called it participatory democracy was because they were participating. It seemed no one else was, other than business needing a rule change or permit, so they had free rein.  And, to give them credit, they did change the culture. It is rare to find a soul who does not support equality of the sexes, the protection of the environment, acceptance of the other-sexed, pity for the huddled masses in the south and an anxious wish for people of colour to do well.

But then….. the German Malthusian Eugenicists at the WEF realized they could fund them and bend them to their purpose.  With 100x the power, the good kids went rogue. The goal was to break the power of the American middle class in order to save the climate. To disenfranchise them, to de-legitimize them, to identify them as racist, sexist, homophobic and patriarchal. To de-pluralize them. To drive them to the margins. It was, frankly, an adoption of evil, an adoption of kill-to-save.

These good kids had been training for this. They knew how to shut down growth. All growth now comes from borrowed money. Most every corporation, middle class family and government is awash in insane levels of debt. Governments are collectively carrying $300 Trillion in unfunded liabilities. Debt is now an asset that fuels corporate takeovers.

The problem is, of course, that the world’s prosperity largely comes from the (formerly) legislated and protected freedom of the American masses. As holds true of all pluralist cultures, they became infinitely creative, they came up with 90% of the inventions that pushed prosperity to unimagined heights during the latter half of the 20th Century. The people pouring through our borders are coming for opportunity, not a socialist super-state. What they are coming for, however, has been put to sleep.

It’s weird what happens when you choke off people’s ability to make a living.

People on the right - though they are the new populist right, not the country club right - are saying that’s enough. The party is over.

This is what they mean when they say ‘we’re losing our democracy.” It means that the School Moms, the Precinct Captains, the Life People, the Anti-Vax people, the Anti-Human Trafficking People, have taken over the public interest. They are doorstepping legislators. Their followers are activated and excited, their followers turn up at the polls 2 to 1. Two to one. They are taking ownership of the system.

They have the energy of the North Wind. They are cold and furious. They are attacking the schools, the school boards, the precinct captains, the election committees, the abortion mills, the gender ideologists and the human traffickers. They don’t have the Rockefeller’s who fund every anti-American activist group in the world, they don’t have the Gates/Buffet gang, they are supported by people who live down the block and who are as distressed as they are.

If that’s not real democracy, I don’t know what is.

If they win, expect a surge of prosperity that will outclass the 20th Century, a surge so magnetic and overwhelming, it will liberate the world. Let me make this clear. We have every possible tool to mitigate environmental damage, even the fantasy ones. All we need is the political will to dig out of this mess.

It’s there: two to one.