Far-right populist like Wilders and Trump are just one of the final symptoms of political decay in the western hemisphere. The decease we see consuming the moral base, the economic power base and finally the military power of the west is not caused by them, but by the utter failure of those whose job it is to safeguard democracy and its …
Far-right populist like Wilders and Trump are just one of the final symptoms of political decay in the western hemisphere. The decease we see consuming the moral base, the economic power base and finally the military power of the west is not caused by them, but by the utter failure of those whose job it is to safeguard democracy and its values to do this job. What's needed is politicians like Kennedy or Roosevelt, but none of those are anywhere in sight, neither in the US nor in Europe, so we just see the likes of Biden and Scholz in Germany helplessly watching the likes of Trump, the AfD in Germany or Wilders in Holland destroying democracy to create a new form of fascism, this time with muslims instead of jews as scapegoats for their failure to secure wealth ans stability in their countries. We can see it even in this blog how powerful a force scapegoating ethnic/religious minorities can be once it is allowed to spread in society like cancer.
Maybe after that new fascism fully unfolds and fails we can see a new just and fair order like the one we are throwing away right now emerging from the ashes of the big fire in which all fascist systems inevitably end. But that's the stuff of another lifetime. I'm already too old to live long enough to see that unfolding. I'll just have to finish what's left of my lifespan and try to keep my hay dry for another one or two decades and help keeping the light of democracy and humanism alive in the darkness so that the young ones to find and rekindle to restore its old glory.
Far-right populist like Wilders and Trump are just one of the final symptoms of political decay in the western hemisphere. The decease we see consuming the moral base, the economic power base and finally the military power of the west is not caused by them, but by the utter failure of those whose job it is to safeguard democracy and its values to do this job. What's needed is politicians like Kennedy or Roosevelt, but none of those are anywhere in sight, neither in the US nor in Europe, so we just see the likes of Biden and Scholz in Germany helplessly watching the likes of Trump, the AfD in Germany or Wilders in Holland destroying democracy to create a new form of fascism, this time with muslims instead of jews as scapegoats for their failure to secure wealth ans stability in their countries. We can see it even in this blog how powerful a force scapegoating ethnic/religious minorities can be once it is allowed to spread in society like cancer.
Maybe after that new fascism fully unfolds and fails we can see a new just and fair order like the one we are throwing away right now emerging from the ashes of the big fire in which all fascist systems inevitably end. But that's the stuff of another lifetime. I'm already too old to live long enough to see that unfolding. I'll just have to finish what's left of my lifespan and try to keep my hay dry for another one or two decades and help keeping the light of democracy and humanism alive in the darkness so that the young ones to find and rekindle to restore its old glory.