Barney
16 Mar 2025
History / Why Poland is not Russia [260]
If by liberal you mean centrist and left of centre parties and their backers well they picked up the baton late in the race. Globalisation was primarily driven by right wing parties to such an extent it became the orthodoxy then the other crowd joined the **** show. The reason they (left leaning) sold their souls was for electoral reasons. It's impossible to change anything in opposition and difficult to get elected on a mandate to stop job flight for example when people are living on credit with the lure of affordable consumer durables.
With Trump, the AfD or Reform in the UK Their chickens have come home to roost, right wing parties sold people a pup while doing their mates favours. Reagan economics who started the decline, was and is based on the quick endorphin rush of credit. Centre and supposed left leaning parties trotted (no pun intended) along behind them. The net result is that most persuadable people no longer trust established parties.
There does appear to be a paradigm shift under way on the globe. The so called rules based order has been revealed to be a sham, turbocharged for example by the onslaught on Palestine not just Gaza and the outrage over the ICC charging Netanyahu et al. Signatures of the ICC stating they wouldn't up hold its warrants is, I believe it's death knell, It fell at the first hurdle. Old alliances have been fractured and new ones forged especially the shift of attitude in the global south. I suppose the Communist bogey man can't be used to keep the kleptocracies on side.
The most supposedly interesting thing is the arguments used, front and centre are the usual wedge issues which are as old as politics, nothing new there. Secondly, attempts to absolve what may be called traditional voices from any responsibility are laughable. The herd of "independent thinkers" all wading in the same shallow pool will be funny in about 20 years but today they are as useful as cannon fodder for billionaires. Finally, big media platforms and their ideas of free speech are so clearly compromised they will be regulated to death.
What path Poland takes is crucial it should throw its weight behind Europe. I know you don't like the EU and believe it's a German centric operation. I have problems with the EU in that I think it's too economically right wing but at the end of the day it's better being in fighting for reform than out howling at the moon.
domination and globalisation led by the liberal fraction
If by liberal you mean centrist and left of centre parties and their backers well they picked up the baton late in the race. Globalisation was primarily driven by right wing parties to such an extent it became the orthodoxy then the other crowd joined the **** show. The reason they (left leaning) sold their souls was for electoral reasons. It's impossible to change anything in opposition and difficult to get elected on a mandate to stop job flight for example when people are living on credit with the lure of affordable consumer durables.
With Trump, the AfD or Reform in the UK Their chickens have come home to roost, right wing parties sold people a pup while doing their mates favours. Reagan economics who started the decline, was and is based on the quick endorphin rush of credit. Centre and supposed left leaning parties trotted (no pun intended) along behind them. The net result is that most persuadable people no longer trust established parties.
There does appear to be a paradigm shift under way on the globe. The so called rules based order has been revealed to be a sham, turbocharged for example by the onslaught on Palestine not just Gaza and the outrage over the ICC charging Netanyahu et al. Signatures of the ICC stating they wouldn't up hold its warrants is, I believe it's death knell, It fell at the first hurdle. Old alliances have been fractured and new ones forged especially the shift of attitude in the global south. I suppose the Communist bogey man can't be used to keep the kleptocracies on side.
The most supposedly interesting thing is the arguments used, front and centre are the usual wedge issues which are as old as politics, nothing new there. Secondly, attempts to absolve what may be called traditional voices from any responsibility are laughable. The herd of "independent thinkers" all wading in the same shallow pool will be funny in about 20 years but today they are as useful as cannon fodder for billionaires. Finally, big media platforms and their ideas of free speech are so clearly compromised they will be regulated to death.
What path Poland takes is crucial it should throw its weight behind Europe. I know you don't like the EU and believe it's a German centric operation. I have problems with the EU in that I think it's too economically right wing but at the end of the day it's better being in fighting for reform than out howling at the moon.