Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the best test of a national executive is, how has the nation done under his or her leadership? That is the test a self interested People would use. Propaganda can move the needle some, in a relatively liberal country, and much more in a closed society, but the People themselves, we judge our representatives by how our own lives are going. Of course many are ideological, they wouldn’t change affiliations no matter how solidly their faction’s philosophy is proven wrong, but there is a large majority of people who care nothing for party… only in results. Which is why I am so surprised many world leaders are still in power, when their rule has demonstrably lowered, not only the economic well being of their citizens, but their personal safety as well?
Fortunately for politicians, people’s memories are short, we forget how things were even a decade ago, and so can be manipulated by propaganda. Goebbels said. tell a lie often enough and people will consider it the truth. That is the way much of the erosion of the economic standard of living has been hidden from the public. Why is it that so many youths have to live at home? Perhaps some are lazy, but certainly not all, the reason is economic. The wage earner has seen a steady erosion in her real wages after inflation for decades. In the 1980s, someone making ten bucks an hour could support a family, where today ten bucks isn’t enough to support oneself. People forget how it was, or deny it, and others were not involved in the marketplace then. Our short memories make us easy to manipulate.
It is easier to take the word of a known liar who swears he is telling the truth than to look it up. Take the example of Europe, the collapse of the standard of living in every measurable way in Europe turns that truth, the People judge their leaders by their own lives, on it’s head. It is like Nietzsche’s slave mindset is the norm in Europe. In Sweden, the People are cowed by the power of shame and societal intimidation, into staying quiescent to the rapes. In Germany, Christian native Germans are sending their little girls to school in Hajabs, and told to stay quiet about their being Germanic. In much of Europe today there are no go zones, where the police just don’t go… unless someone with a great deal of political favor needs rescuing. All based on people believing lies and telling themselves lies.
A decade ago, Paris, London, Stockholm, etc… were safe cities. Today… not so much. That is a demonstrable diminishment in the standard of living of the people in those cities and their nations. That was a decade ago, and the same basic leadership is in power. Oh, a few seats have changed, but the hegemonic power structure is firmly in place. Merkel has ushered in the destruction of Germany itself, openly and for all to see, yet she remains in power. In Japan the two parties firmly believe in the same policies, polices that took Japan from the second largest economy in the world, to a stagnant one mired in government debt. The People of Eastern Europe are pushing back, against EU idiotic globalist policies, even as the People of Britain voted to exit the EU, and their rulers refuse.
Judging by the standard of living, the leaders, not only of the EU but much of the world, are not doing their jobs. In a few places, where the leadership has embraced free markets, despite huge handicaps their economies are flourishing, their people are more safe every day, and therefore the standard of living is incontrovertibly improved. The places where the leaders are failing, and failing miserably, Europe, much of South America and Australia, are also taking the path to socialism via the welfare state, and the destruction of the nation state by mass immigration. Let’s see how Brazil does with it’s new “free enterprise” leader, if he survives long enough. Maybe that is why the globalists seek the elimination of the nation state, so people will have no other outcome… to judge theirs by?
Sincerely,
John Pepin
