SteynPost #26: Post-Democracy and the Populists
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Welcome to a brand new SteynPost in which Mark expounds on some recent examples of a phenomenon John O'Sullivan, Mrs Thatcher's former speechwriter, noted some years ago: the ever more open contempt for the will of the people by the west's ruling class.
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The genius of Mr. Steyn is making me crack, while discussing very serious issues.
I better enjoy these laughters while I still can! The EUSSR is coming for the fun at an accelerated pace, we soon be hiding material like this as the unfortunate soviet lads did with Solzhenitsyn's work.
Good luck to you Hunorion. It is the EU-SSR, and hopefully there will be millions of Solzhenitsyns across Europe releasing a million Gulag Archepeligos.
The EUSSR. THAT is very clever! 😁🇺🇸
Politbureau in Brussels unanimously votes for the only united opinion LOL
I watch a great deal of political RUclipsrs...Mark is on another level.
Adrian J
Have you watched Styx’s channel? He’s going off at the moment
Styx is good but Mark Steyn is something else as far as I'm concerned.
Dr. Steve Turley. Your welcome guys.
Bluudclaat I know of him, and have watched some of his content, but he is not for me. He’s done a few videos on certain topics where he was way off the mark, and since then I haven’t gone back. Computing forever is another fav of mine
Yeah agree, this guy is well grounded/down to earth and can speak to a wide audience (Styx et al are not very accessible), just throwing it out there that there is some quality material, when taken as a whole - good to see everyone with a diverse source of information 👏🏻🍻
Marc steyn is as always spot on🤘🤘
Respect to you Steyn!
Outstanding analysis. Enlightening. ❤ from Ontario.
Yes, right on point Mark, as usual. And as we move along in this, the populace becomes more vocal, which then leads to bullying, and harsh admonishment and eventually violence. I wrote a single sentence at the end of one of my books (a training manual in my industry) where I mentioned being a person of faith who had been taught the value of tithing. It was my wish to encourage everyone to give a percentage of their incoming revenue to help those less fortunate and I went on to encourage readers to save an equal amount for investment, another equal amount for emergencies, another equal amount for relaxation and so on as part of an overall monetary management strategy. Recently I've been excoriated by an atheist, claiming my book is extremely boring (though she read all of it cover to cover) and that, essentially I should be run out of town for making HER feel less of a giving person because I mentioned my Christian upbringing. I have to leave the review in place, without comment, in case a flood of more like thinking people emerge to take my book down. Amazon's rules prohibit attacking any author personally but it's not enforced at all. And so more and more people are emboldened to attack authors who disagree with their worldview, their political view, their economic view, their religious view and every other conceivable view.
Thank you for your video regarding state islamophilia in the world.
We need more people like you Mark. When's your next book going to be published?
I totally agree with your phrase "the post democratic" age. Commissars and Princelings indeed. As for the Marine Le Pen, that is simply something out of the Stalinist Soviet Union. Dark times.
Also the way Tommy Robinson is completely misrepresented by journalists who consider themselves meritocratic.
Mark Steyn has to be my most favorite political commentator ever
Essential. Every video.
Wow, very insightful commentary. Really explains a lot of the anger against Donald Trump which seems even worse than if we had a caste system of government.
I really admire Hungary, Poland and Italy.
Macron and Trudeau both are too immature to be leaders of any country.
Marine lePenn is more competent than Macron is. I used to want to visit France and England, but not any more
Brilliant Mark ! Thank you for sharing your pincer intellect to clarify our historic predicament
The days when SteynPost arrives are fantastic. Love listening you while drinking my black tea. Keep these coming!
Well spoken Mark Steyn. You took the words right out of my mouth.
The problem is not with a ruling class, it's with a ruling ideology. Whether they are from grand families or not, our rulers for the most part can only wield power if they bow to progressivism. That's how you get the UK's "Conservative" party seriously considering allowing men to become women simply by uttering an incantation, and ordering companies to report completely meaningless statistics on gender and pay.
That's why the rule of law is better than the rule of man. Because you never know what kind of ruler you might end up with, but with the rule of law, they all have to follow that same law.
Yes the rule of law is better and must be guarded by the people against those with the power to legislate it doing so for their own interests against the will of the people.Which is not the way the EU designed to operate
Why is a ruling class not a problem? What gives one person the right to rule over another?
@@bartbarry2662 well, in the US they had this thing. You know, "we the people", the constitutiom, all those words about "liberty"...look what they've got now. Democracy inevitably degenerates.
@@woodrow6155 well, nothing. But I think we'll always have powerful people dominating weaker people. What gives to a parent the right to give orders to hos children?
The question should be: how to align the interest pf the governed with that of the government? How to spread virtue and civilization and reduce degeneracy and violence?
"the public will figure it out and look elsewhere", well put sir
Geert Wilders is my absolute hero. He is a man above all others. I would live in a jail cell for such an honorable man!
My biggest fear is that there is going to be revolution. I also feel that apathy towards the staus quo (It is out of my control) has led to the coming disastor. The only way to stop the oncoming disastor is to move towards the populist movement and take control of our governments once again. We are still a democracy and have the rights to kick out the trash and take back our countries.
Such an enlightening pleasure! No dumbing down, no histrionics.Thank you mark
I love the expression “the commissars of Europe” 👍
Thank you, brilliant commentary on the present state of affairs.
To have this sane voice at this present time in history is a precious thing.
Marine Le Pen is too attractive to be crazy.
Maxime Bernier is the only politician in Canada who is simply asking for a discussion about immigration. It may be an accident of birth that we grow up in western or eastern parts of the globe. However, the world has watched the west develop over hundreds of years; adopting a western cultural model, or aspects thereof, would no doubt go a long way to improving the lives of those in many eastern cultures.
Exactly...the more you tell me to STFU the more I'll fight you for my Freedom to Speak!!
One of your best podcasts!
"Hotel Brexifornia". Spot on. Brilliant.
We're living in Weimar like times and we all know how that played out. Personally I can't wait and am looking forward to see the change in the coming years. (I mean real change, not Obama's kind.)
The first 10 minutes on the nature of our permanent ruling classes and their view of ordinary citizens is profound. GO MARK!
Thank you, Mr.Steyn, from misbehaving Poland.
Always great commentary. Thanks Mark.
I love hearing what you have to say about politics overseas. My plate is full here in the US dealing with myriad issues; therefore, glad to get your perspective on the rest of the world
Love the analogy of Brexit and Hotel California - "You can check out any time but you can never leave."
starve the beast. it has broken the chain that restrained it.
George Orwell saw only the tip of the stinkin' iceberg!
No day is right without Mark's words
Beautiful, brilliant, well-reasoned, Churchillian truths. I love it.
I enjoy your break down. I'm not articulate to put it into words , but we think the same on some issues. Thanks
Well said Mark.Hit the nail on the proverbial head.
Like they created America's Obama. A non-American Muslim came out of now where and became a American President. Very interesting post You tied a lot of strings together for me. So many things are now making sense. Thank you Mark. I love your work.
mark i wish you had more videos always very informative, we need to learn more, thank you so much. God bless you and your family and all the families of the world.
Great Mark. You are valuable because you articulate for people like myself concepts that we need help in articulating and clarifying in a tsunami of post modernist confuision.
Thank you, Mark! Brilliant analysis. I have escaped from the Soviet GULAG in 1980, and am horrified to watch it coming here
I learn so much from Mark Steyn!
Great talk as per usual.... and yes Mark.. I’ve taken to quoting you... hope you don’t mind...
Love Mark's wit and intelligence.
Best political commentator by a mile! Long may it continue.
So refreshing to listen to Mark Steyn. You know the saying, "You can tell an intelligent person(They Think Just Like You Do").
Absolutely Brilliant, Mark! Thanks!
.... "they put him /it in a laboratory...." and voila! Mr Macron!.... Always right Mr S. Continue like this!
You're the best! You and the good Doctor, JBPeterson, what a glorious chat that would be! Just a thought. From your adoring fan, far west of New Hampshire, saving up to join The Club!!! Fondly, France
The Cabal will not give up. Watch your back and prepare
"A riot is the language of the unheard"--Martin Luther King, Jr.
I also heard someone quote MLK as saying "revolution is the language of those without a voice".
Very much in the vein of Mr. Steyn at 25:44.
Excellent! Thanks so much, Mark.
thanks for keeping track of all this bs and letting us know...well done brother
Brilliant! as ever; always look forward to your posts.
Mark, you are the greatest iterator of diatribes of anyone I've ever heard. You make me laugh so freaking hard.
"There's Something Happening Here'
What It is Ain't Exactly Clear."
Stephen Stills For What Its Worth.
Thank God for Mark Steyn in this age of runaway progressivism...
Listen to everything you say and love it
This guy is the best. 🇺🇸
I think Mark Steyn is fabulous
Thank you for speaking. I heard today you were taken off a list of acceptable guests for 640 am talk radio by Global Inc. in Canada, along with other common sense logical rational Conservative voices. I am frightened for the world.
another gem from Mark ,,,thanks budd .
Mark I do hope that you can put your show on line, happy to buy it as here in Rural Australia and octogenarians, we cannot get to travel to theatres
I didn't know you had a show I was like where's mark steyn? We live in the same state my friend. Keep up the good work.
Excellent analysis, too 👍🇺🇸
Excellent conclusions. And we are now facing this inevitable conclusion on a number of fronts. Quebec just elected a more Conservative Government (first time in 50yrs) and Alberta will be turning over the NDP to the newly merged United Conservatives in May 2019.
Great analysis, but it's also really helpful to the enemies of the people to warn them!
The k you for speaking the truth sir!
Gotta Love Mark👍👍
yes soviet techniques are in play
Brilliant, Mark Steyn. Here's my take on Brexit from Mrs May viewpoint. My open letter to her.
2 Sep 2018
Dear Mrs May,
Thank you so much for writing to me via The Telegraph. I have read your letter with great interest.
I sympathise with you as a true technocratic supra-nationalist you are in an extremely difficult position. Although formally the Prime Minister of UK you are also a member of the European Council and as such you are duty bound to give precedence to the EU where there is a conflict of interest with UK's national interest. In effect you are the Governor of the EU provinces of England Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Enscowalni. You are faced with an English led rebellion - it's always the pesky English who just will not be told. The continent has put up with this for almost a thousand years. It really cannot go on.
Nevertheless, being as stubborn as you are you have to your credit some very great achievements:
1. Gained an ex-gratia payment to the EU of approx £39 billion without any legal basis whatsoever, unconditionally and for nothing in return.
2. With your colleague Philip, you have successfully prevented funding of any concrete preparations for UK’s exit on WTO terms.
3. You have manoeuvred UK to shoulder all responsibility to establish and police the EU’s border in Ireland on the EU’s behalf, and to insure against UK’s failure you have secured for the EU an unconditional veto on any proposal UK might make.
4. You have in a quite theatrical manner at Chequers persuaded UK to accept continuing compliance with existing and new EU law for at least two and perhaps five or more years after UK leaves the EU.
5. You have ended all British representation in EU institutions from 29 March 2019 thus ensuring free reign for the EU without the English interference that has bedevilled Europe for centuries.
6. Most cleverly, and right under the noses of the rebels, you established your own personal executive arm within the UK government headed by the USSR admiring Ollie Robbins, with its own secret channels to the EU and selected heads of government in the EU, thus enabling you to completely undermine and circumvent the UK government. Using this you have successfully removed all rebels from power and forced the entirety of the remaining government to swear allegiance to a foreign power rather than UK. And nobody has been locked up in the Tower of London. Peace in our time, Theresa!
Obviously victory is not yet secure but it is in sight. At the EU summit in October you will sign the armistice and UK will formally become a vassal of the EU. It will take time but during the peaceful years to follow the English, as they did under William I, will learn to accept their new rulers with stoic, if surly, fortitude. Technocratic supra-national government will prevail and the post war experiment will be proven superior in practice having vanquished the world's oldest national democracy. Well, it will be superior at least until the EU transforms itself some time around 2025-2030 into a new nation state, The Federal State of Europe. But it will not make the mistake of allowing rampant democratic freedom to run riot over its perfect technocracy.
So Mrs May, you will go down in history as the woman who triumphed over the English after centuries of continental defeats occasioned by the Englishers' thirst for freedom from state oppression and control and you will have united this fractious continent in the face of their common enemy.
Bravo, Governor May.
I remain, ma'am,
Your obedient servant,
8:48. Indeed, embarrassing. I couldn't agree more on Brexit. It's a complete spectacle.
"Elections have consequences," someone said. The main consequence now seems to be the strengthening of the establishment's resolve to ignore the result.
Brilliant!
Apologies for my verbosity but I get passionate about Brexit. Mark Steyn, technocratic supra-nationalism fits your concept of 'Post Democracy' perfectly. Mrs May - if she sincerely believes in anything at all relevant to the future of any country let alone UK - believes supra-national government to be superior to national democracy. It has always been her intention to keep UK as much in the EU as possible for this reason. Economics is incidental. It is not just limiting the damage caused by Brexit (post war declinism resurrected) - it is a positive desire to keep UK inside to maintain and deepen supra-national government. She has been able to hide her ambition behind ambiguous words. Thus she can say she wants a deep and comprehensive special partnership. We Brexiteers wanted to believe that meant a good trade deal, defence and security co-operation and so on. It did not. It meant being as much a subject (vassal) of the EU as she could possibly manage. There never was any vision of the world's fifth largest economy becoming sovereign and freely forming a mutually beneficial co-operative partnership whilst retaining its sovereignty. Sovereignty was never the goal, not even a significant consideration.
So now we have the Irish border 'problem'. Mrs May needs it to beat off Brexiteers as much as the EU needs it to beat down UK as a whole (The EU's strategy is entirely logical. A successful independent UK would be an existential threat so its independence must be strangled at birth.) That is why it has not been solved. Mrs May needs it to be a problem. In truth it is a non-problem. All it would take is to tell everyone there will be electronic systems put in place, there may be a need to make more physical checks depending on how well the system works but not at first. If Ireland and the EU want it to work it will work but they do have the capacity to make it fail. Up to them. As for UK, that is what we are going to do and it's off the table for further negotiations.
But Mrs May will not defuse the Irish border and will go on conceding to the EU in order to fulfil her real aim of supra-national government of UK.
Her long term goal is, no doubt , to position UK to join the final stages of EU economic and monetary union before the founding of the Federal State of Europe as outlined in the Five Presidents' Report (June 2015) and the follow up white paper, with treaty changes coming into effect around 2025. One year extensions of the transition period, just one at a time so as not to give the game away, will do nicely.
That is where Mrs May and her Remainers are taking us.
Why expect transparency and clarity from a technocratic supra-nationalist? The European Project is run with secrecy, stealth and deceit built into it at its foundation because its founders understood it could not be democratic and would be rejected by voters.
Spot on, as per usual.
Great analysis...love your show!
Put like that - everyone should be bricking it!
Spot on, keep up the good work 👍
Commonwealth understatement (paraphrase): "The fact that beheading is c onsidered routine is a bit troubling...."
"The fact that decapitation has become routine is a bit worrying."
-Mark Steyn 2018.
Storm the barricades! “Figuratively speaking”, of course.
Madame Pen's ordeal reminded me of the film Clockwork Orange.
Very well put and spoken
There should be no taxation without representation.
Geert should invest in a DVD player.
hahaha
In relation to the truth being illegal - Andrew Klavan said, in referring to Trump's characteristics: "When they Outlaw Truth, only Outlaws will speak the Truth..."
They should get rid of the house of Lord's, £300+ a day plus expenses, and all they do is sleep all day, some just sign in but don't bother to attend, get rid of it!!
so right BRAVO!!
Brilliant as usual
@25:42 If the political culture forbids respectable politicians from raising certain topics, then the electorate will turn to unrespectable ones.
MARK: Here, in the UK, we are ruled by some of the 'thickest' people on the planet! Our Media is also peopled with journalists of the same calibre. They know nothing about philosophies, or religions; and - yet - they are hyper-confident in pontificating on such subjects. They do not even undertake the academic work which is essential, BEFORE, you pontificate on some topic. Female LABOUR politicians are, especially, good at this. Dim as Toc-H Lamps!
The word "Sabotage" isn't used enough when defining todays left
“And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.”
Daniel 12:1
I’d add that the historian Arnold J Toynbee said that civilisations fall when the internal proletariat loses confidence in the dominant minority, allowing the external proletariat to lay waste to the civilisation in question. Writing in the 40 s Toynbee was thinking largely of ancient civilisations, but I think it applies to the current situation in Western civilisation. I’ll leave it to y’all to assign the role of internal and external proletariat appropriately.