Right now, we are in an authoritarian state.
You cannot say words that are contrary to the government narrative, lest you be locked up for several years.
God (or is it Allah?) forbid you mention anything disparaging against our wonderful Muslim life-enrichers, bringing us blessing from abroad and a new way of understanding how the world outside the relatively safe Western countries behaves.
If you get any traction and generate a following, if you get popular, you are instantly attacked. Several people have risen in prominence and then been vehemently attacked in the media. All the media, all towing the same line, spouting the same rhetoric in order to silence you.
And if that doesn't work, then the next step is lawfare, employing activist judges that will do the bidding of the government and the various attack-dog agencies to first scare you into submission and then to actually jail you.
You can't deny there are now a number of people that have gone through the process above. It's no longer random, it's quite obviously a playbook used to silence the effective communicators that dare to speak against the sate-controlled narrative.
I said to start that we are in an authoritarian state, but where is this leading? I've already mentioned that I think the Woke ideology has it's roots in Marxism, but what's the next step?
Well, Marxism begets Communism. And we are damn close to that.
Paul Hitchens already mentioned he knows Kier Starmer and his ilk and that Starmer is even further left than Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn is a genuine Socialist old Duffer, well-meaning but ideologically left of Socialist. You might say Marxist.
But Starmer is another creature entirely. He's a committed Marxist, that we know. So was Tony Blair. But how deep does the Marxist ideology run with Starmer? Well, I'm beginning to think Starmer is a Communist.
Just his mannerisms, the way he speaks and the way he forms policy. Does anyone believe that the Cabinet is consulted when Starmer makes speeches? Does he consult Parliament at large?
Of course he doesn't. He's a dictator. He's an authoritarian, committed to the use of the full force of the law towards his perceived enemies. Hence the crack-down on the Southport protesters.
Starmer just couldn't comprehend that the working class should have a grievance against government policy, or even less that they should air that grievance in public.
Starmer is a Stalinist: his first instinct is to remove the resistance to his ideology. He'd shoot the protesters if he could get away with it, he'd eradicate them from existence. As it is, sending them down for a decade is as good as he can do.... at the moment. Due to the limitations of the law, there are limits on the power of the activist judiciary to follow his lead.
But don't think that will be the case forever.
Freedoms will be eroded and catastrophes will be exploited to bring in even tighter laws.
We will sleepwalk into Communism.
I feel that the leaders of Western Europe are captured by Communist ideology. As I said, they may not think they are Communist and they certainly won't call themselves Communist. But it plain to see that the crackdowns on freedom in Europe, the restrictions on criticism of the sate and the superstate of the EU are indicators we are heading that way.
I long suspected that the unification of Germany was like a Trojan horse, in that we let ex-Communist East- Germans into leading positions. Their ideology has poisoned the well of European freedom and fraternity.
We are now governed and edicts come from on high to serve external masters. The requests do not come from the people, they are instead imposed from above.
The only requests from the proles that get accepted are those that lead to more restrictions. Have you noticed that? Not one request from the people to be more free or for less government intrusion has been accepted or ratified into legislation by our government., for a very long time; Decades possibly I'd like to make that broader by saying Western European governments, but I'd hope that somewhere there's a request for more freedom from the common people that was acceded to by one government in Western Europe at some point in the past 30 years...
Yeah, I can't think of one either. Which is extremely worrying.