DEMAGOGUERY

PART 3 (FINAL PART)

Someone once said: "Let us not write-off sections of society as being stupid or ignorant. Let us be compassionate and recognise that it is human fear and gullibility that is at play here."

It is the fashionable belief that an idea is wrong in proportion to its "extremism" and right in proportion as it is a chaotic muddle of contradictory doctrines. To the professional middle-of-the-roader, a species that is always found in abundance, the demagogue invariable comes as a nasty shock. For it is one of the most admirable qualities of the demagogue that he forces the human race to think, some for the first time in their lives.

Out of the muddle of the current ideas, both fashionable and unfashionable, he extracts some and pushes them to their logical conclusions. He thereby forces people either to reject their loosely held views as unsound, or to find them sound and to pursue them to their logical consequences. Far from being an irrational force, then, the silliest of demagogues is a great servant of Reason, even when he is mostly in the wrong.

It is true that, in the long run, we will never be free until the intellectuals, the natural moulders of public opinions, have been converted to the side of freedom. In the short run, however, the only route to liberty is by an appeal to the masses by a demagogue, the rough unpolished man of the people, who can present the truth in simple, effective, yes emotional, language. The intellectual sees this clearly, and this why they constantly attack every indication of libertarian demagoguery as part of a "rising tide of anti-intellectualism". Of course, it is not anti-intellectualism; it is the saving of mankind from those intellectuals who have betrayed the intellect itself.

Obvious, many times, disgraceful demagoguery is also practised. For example, Obama, it was never about dishonest differences over policies. His political opponents had to be portrayed as morally callous, cruel, and motivated by the basest considerations while Obama presented himself as the avatar of the common good. Obama was, in fact, a cynical demagogue. He has done tremendous damage to the political and civic culture of the United States, and it is very clear that the repair work has finally began after he left the presidency.

The same current threads are running wild through Europe. It was like that, as an example, when the referendum was realized in Ireland with the outcome of "no" to the integration in the European Union, the bureaucracy of the same European Union forced the reversion by dragging Ireland into an economic abyss.

The constant victories and support that Trump has obtained in all corners of the American society, have revealed an entrepreneur with winning intentions in America's favour.

And this is happening while the globalists use their countries, electors, and elections, to obey the plans of foreign organizations, as the World Bank, NATO, ONU, etc.

Trump bet on the people's will and their sovereignty without compromising to economic and political groups unknown to the masses.

It was pure knowledge that Trump financed his own campaign.

Trump has a conscience of sovereignty, and this is exactly what the Americans are trying to recover.

This is exactly what Europe has lost. Europe has lost the identity notion and the sovereignty of each of their member countries.

Donald Trump's rhetoric have guaranteed many worries in various world leaders.

Trump's campaign never responded to fear and the globalists' provocations.

Some NATO officer, said that Trump's intention of not intervening in the destiny of other sovereignties, is causing panic among the globalists.

Let's face it, Europe is facing an existential crisis, and now more than ever there is more anxiety in the inversion of the 'help plans' by the USA to Europe.

One thing I'm certain of, the American political map, as well as the Occident, and the planet will never be the same again.

All that Trump is doing is awakening what was in sleeping mode, or "controlled" by the conscience of the sovereignty, justice, free will and the popular will of the American people.

During many decades, and in the name of 'crisis management', the globalist powers, centralized and never voted in, influence and even control governments. Using the 'financial crisis' or the 'bilateral relations', an army of diplomats and military seriously compromised with the legality, and used and abused not only their status but also the Constitution in order to invert the popular will.

Final thoughts

While it can seem like the beginning of dark and dangerous days, the upheaval of events like Brexit and the election of Trump can make us as a society look more deeply at what we can do to heal our divisions.

Human beings are endowed with such intelligence that we can decide to live in any way that we choose. It is a choice however that each one of us has to make for ourselves. We can either be swept up in the blame game or we can become the very change that we seek through every fabric of our being.

Awareness of our behaviour and cognitive bias is the starting point. The rest requires us to show courage and compassion and to hope. Only then can we make the best of ourselves and of each other.

Consulting material:

1. Salema Zita, Washington Examiner.

2. Paul Sracic, Political Science professor.

3. Loren J, Sammons Jr., article about demagoguery.

4. Tom Wolfe, Masters of the Universe.

5. Peter Weiner, Disgraceful demagoguery

6. Harsha, Leadership