Western Standard - July 04, 2024


'The world political pendulum is swinging & it's to the right'

Topics
woke politics exhaustion unrestricted immigration
Mentioned
Justin Trudeau Lori Lightfoot Brian Mulroney Javier Malay Donald Trump Thatcher Reagan Biden
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5 minutes

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196.1

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1,100

Sentence count

72

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3

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15

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6

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Summary

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People are sick of being told to disregard what they see with their own eyes, and that common sense conclusions they ve made are wrong. They know what's going on, and they're ready to stand up and finally say the emperor has no clothes.

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00:00:00.000 Something I see is good news. A trend around the world right now. Nations that have traditionally swung left wing are swinging back to the right in general elections. Media outlets, it's great to watch them in every nation and every elitist jerk is howling about the trend and they label every newly elected leader and party as far right while not realizing all they're doing is strengthening the resolve of the citizens to wipe the woke from their government halls.
00:00:25.320 Italy, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia and the Czech Republic. They have all elected global or conservative governments to the horror of global elites. 0.51
00:00:34.780 Now, establishment media outlets are aghast as France is about to democratically shed its left wing leadership. Argentina, they made the biggest swing from outright socialism to electing Javier Maile, who was active without hesitation to cut their massive civil service and reform the government.
00:00:50.740 Now, left-leaning pundits are terrified by the new leadership in Argentina. They're frightened that his policies are going to cause damage to Argentina.
00:00:58.860 They're afraid the policies will succeed because it'll be yet another one of those many, many examples that socialism doesn't work.
00:01:05.820 In the United States, well, Donald Trump is poised to return to power this fall and in Canada, the Trudeau government's poised to be crushed as soon as the citizens are given the chance to vote on it.
00:01:14.360 Now, President Biden's clear dementia and Justin Trudeau's ongoing incompetence certainly contributed to the dramatic decline in support for their respective parties, but it's more than that.
00:01:25.140 North Americans have had enough of the woke politics and they're pushing back.
00:01:29.540 I mean, we've been asking to embrace the absurd for too long.
00:01:32.480 Cancel culture has gagged people long enough and they're ready to stand up and finally say the emperor has no clothes.
00:01:37.800 Orwell's 1984 was prescient in so many ways. He predicted the bizarre state enforcement of linguistic nonsense when the dystopian world he created had the government declare war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
00:01:52.560 But even Orwell never predicted just how ridiculous it was going to get in the real world.
00:01:56.860 People are sick of being told to disregard what they see with their own eyes and that the common sense conclusions they've made are wrong. 0.98
00:02:02.880 Citizens are tired of being told that athletes with penises are actually women and it's fair to allow them to compete with real women in events. 0.72
00:02:10.840 The claims of systemic racism are exhausting. 0.99
00:02:13.040 In Chicago, a black lesbian extremist named Lori Lightfoot was elected as mayor. 0.98
00:02:17.360 It's surprising they didn't cut off one of her legs to fill another checkbox of the woke. 1.00
00:02:20.960 When she lost the next election, she blamed systemic racism. 0.92
00:02:24.580 She was replaced by a black guy, but we're supposed to suspend reality in light of the woke. 0.72
00:02:28.900 People can't cancel, they can't handle the economic abuse of green energy sources any longer.
00:02:34.240 They're calling it out.
00:02:34.960 They won't accept the myth that windmills can replace gasoline.
00:02:38.180 They see their energy bills.
00:02:39.500 They know what's going on. 0.98
00:02:41.280 Rather than addressing the deepening social issues in minority communities in North America, policing was blamed and the idiotic defund the police movement was embraced with catastrophic results in major cities in the United States and in Canada. 0.96
00:02:52.940 The woke, only the woke, can keep a straight face and tell us that reducing policing is the best way to dealing with rising crime rates. 0.93
00:02:59.380 Why don't we reduce teachers to help them teach students better?
00:03:02.420 Oh yeah, the union suddenly got a problem with that.
00:03:04.900 While an addiction epidemic is raging, though, the woke are telling us the solution is to give them more drugs.
00:03:09.180 I wish I was kidding.
00:03:10.600 The cities that have embraced this have created dystopian ghettos populated with zombie-like addicts who are dying in record numbers.
00:03:17.080 There's no such thing as a safe supply of meth.
00:03:19.620 And citizens know it.
00:03:20.600 In San Francisco, one of the most vibrant cities in North America has been gutted as the woke of decriminalized petty crimes.
00:03:26.640 Citizens and businesses alike are fleeing.
00:03:28.900 The biggest lie of all, though, is that mass immigration right now is sustainable and that it isn't causing the socioeconomic havoc that we are dealing with today. 0.87
00:03:38.420 People are capable of seeing what's happening on their streets and they understand that the economic havoc being caused through unrestrained immigration is a problem. 1.00
00:03:46.520 Particularly when most of the immigrants are coming from cultures that have serious issues with trying to integrate into nations with modern human rights practices. 1.00
00:03:54.040 So while supplies and housing, healthcare, education, and every social service decline, citizens have had it with ivory tower arseholes chiding them for showing their concerns and they're telling people that it has nothing to do with the floods of immigration.
00:04:06.640 It's not racist to ask the government to tap the brakes and slow the rate of immigration to what we can manage. 0.79
00:04:12.540 But that's what a person's accused of every time.
00:04:15.100 And people have had enough.
00:04:16.920 People, rather than trying to understand and address why citizens are democratically evicting woke administrations in their countries, the elitists in media and academia are scolding us.
00:04:25.900 They accuse people of everything, again, from racism, selfishness, extremism.
00:04:30.120 They spit out the word populism as if it's a terrible thing.
00:04:32.920 Well, that's another term for democracy, actually, guys.
00:04:34.760 They loathe the very idea that the unwashed masses can impose their will through elections.
00:04:39.740 They'd best be wary.
00:04:41.560 If the majority can't affect change democratically, they'll bring it about through less peaceful means.
00:04:45.900 So don't crap on the elections, guys.
00:04:48.780 It's the safest way to go and they won't be stopped.
00:04:51.040 Everything goes in cycles.
00:04:52.220 The world's on the brink of another heyday in conservative leadership like we saw in the 80s with Reagan, Thatcher, and even Brian Mulroney. 0.96
00:04:58.780 Hopefully, the democratic course correction goes as smoothly as possible and citizens shed the idiocy of woke socialism around the world.
00:05:06.660 The change in course will be a positive for us all as long as the establishment allows democracy to run its course. 0.59
00:05:11.820 If democracy is denied, well, the transition could be uglier.
00:05:14.860 But it's coming all the same. 0.99
00:05:16.460 And yeah, I know, give it two more generations and they'll swing the pendulum right back to stupidity, but that'll be their problem to deal with then. 0.98
00:05:21.720 I'm optimistic, though, for the next 10, 15 years, guys. 0.98
00:05:24.140 We're finally moving in the right direction.
00:05:28.780 We'll see you next time.
00:05:30.180 We'll be yourselves.
00:05:31.760 We'll be right back.
00:05:32.260 We'll be right back.
00:05:34.440 We'll be right back.