WHY ALL THE RESTRICTIONS

7 January 2022

                 To understand why politicians are attempting to perrenise the controls, you have to understand what makes them tick and why they are succeeding at the moment. They and the MSM have divided society, aided by the underlying context within which they operate, at least in the short term.

In the longer term, our freedoms and way of life are threatened by poor financials (debt), internal divisions (inequalities) and the threat of war (immigration and security).

But there are solutions, though more hope is needed - more people must believe we can overcome these end-of-cycle forces working against us and people must go to work everyday in a spirit of unity, productivity, sacrifice, thrift, patriotism, if anyone can be bothered to redress the unfolding catastrophe.

I suppose it is ultimately about leadership and vision and working to a long-term strategy. I hate to think what it would be like for our children and future generations, if we lose. If we win through, it could win the West and our children another hundred years of prosperity and security as world hegemon.

WHAT MAKES POLITICIANS TICK

Well, there's the basic drive for power - getting access to the resources to change things your way and push people around - this is the drive that takes certain types into politics.

Covid presented the perfect opportunity. And once taken, power is not normally just handed back.

It was a fine opportunity to distract with the left hand.

THE WORK OF THE MSM

Then there is the MSM to exploit people's dissatisfaction and sell copy. 

POOR FINANCIALS

Underlying all this is the debt and inequality gap. The financial are now very bad, we are nearing the end of a classic cycle. This one started in 1945. They all end this way.

Debt and internal division. 

INTERNAL DIVISIONS

The MSM wind everything up, divide and make hysterical. The more militant extremes too have profited, opposing moderation, and winning the arguments, taking out the centre ground.

 

EXTERNAL THREATS

Plus The Rising Power, looking on, biding its time.

There are things that can be done!

Restore personal liberties, shri k the state, lower taxes. This is what made The West Great, or was the backdrop.

SOLUTIONS

It is possible to find a balance where people earn more than they spend and this horrendous debt gets paid off.

But it needs a united front. There are enormous "cultural" differences within our society to overcome. And the widening inequality gap, caused by central bank printing, needs to be closed.

THE GOOD OUTCOMES

Then you might get some security at home and even some patriotism (a notion that makes people rear up and laugh, ok I understand). That's about support for the ultimate unit in international politics: the nation-state. No rising power would dare risk a conflict, they'd be annihilated.

IT TAKES LEADERSHIP AND VISION AND A SERIOUS STRATEGY

In the unlikely case that The West could find leaders capable of implementing this long-term vision, we'd get another 100 years as world hegemon ... enough to see enough generations , starting with our children, through to prosperity, security, happiness and hopefully their own legacy.