Enemies of the people

 

Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen's play

An Enemy of the People,

was written in 1882.

One of the most disturbing aspects of the last two years, during the COVID-19 pandemic, was not necessarily the way in which the political class commandeered the opportunity to chip away at the freedoms of tax-payers in the West by not allowing a good crisis to go to waste, but the sheer contempt they showed for them while doing so.

The political class has for some time been showing all the symptoms of a strange hybrid of psychological afflictions, seeming to be both quasi-autistic and psychopathic at the same time. The Venn diagram between these two conditions nests of course with one common element - empathy.

It is not difficult to imagine the majority of Western politicians quite happily pulling the wings off flies. Their feigned empathy is not convincing, particularly when you examine their ruinous policies. Ruinous, that is, for the peons, the serfs, the little people, not for their own cabals and fraternities.

Probably the most-quoted book over the past few years is George Orwell's 1984, which is becoming as central to dissident thinking as the Qu'ran is to the Islamic world. So we will leave it be, and turn our attention to Orwell's 1945 political essay about England, The Lion and the Unicorn. In that piece, Orwell writes that 'England is a family with the wrong members in control'. This maxim can now be extended to the world as a whole.

In passing, it is a great example of what the English 19th-century novelist Thomas Hardy called 'cosmic jokes' that the most malevolent British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, shares a surname with George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Blair. That may seem extraneous information, but by the same token it might win you a bar-room quiz one day, that fact. Every day is a schoolday.

And it certainly is if your chosen subject happens to be the political class. A combination of punitive and ever-increasing taxation, the increase in ideological control of what people can and cannot say, the neutering of Western police forces, quantitative easing (aka printing money) which will lead to inflation as surely as night follows day (see Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and the Weimar Republic), allied with a ruinously liberal approach to immigration both legal and illegal, and you will witness an attitude displayed by the political class to the rest of us which verges on hatred.

And of course it doesn't help to say that you can vote them out. There are two major parties in most civilized countries in the West, but they generally differ about as much as one brand of soap powder does from the one next to it on the supermarket shelf. Henry Ford famously said you could buy his cars in any colour as long as it's black, and now you can have your politics in any ideology as long as it is globalist, neo-socialist, high-tax-and-spend oligarchism.

What the West has now is a sort of hybrid between what Samuel T. Francis described as 'anarcho-tyranny' and the four-stages of the internal destruction of states described by the brilliant Russian defector Yuri Bezmenov in the 1980s. These men are absolutely worth your time, as chilling as their conclusions might be.

What is it that drives human beings to be so morally profligate with the people they are supposed, constitutionally and electorally, to represent and give a voice to? I will give you one instance of something happening in England which is so disturbing I wonder if the country of my birth is not trying deliberately to start a civil war.

A pretty village called Linton-on-Ouse (meaning that it sits on the river Ouse) has a population of 700 people. Until next week, when an RAF base (Britain's Royal Air Force, slowly being dismantled along with the rest of the Queen's armed forces) will be filled with 1,700 mostly young male Muslim immigrants awaiting the results of their asylum applications. They will be allowed to go into the town. This is so clearly a recipe for disaster that it is impossible that the British government cannot see what is coming.

When a government becomes the enemy of its own people, one of two things happen. You either have utterly repressive regimes, such as North Korea, Stalin's Russia and Mao's China, or you have civil war.

Pick one card. You can't have both.