Biden Prioritizes Ideology to Alliances
Like President Obama, the early indications are that the Biden Administration will prioritize its globalist ideology over American national interests. Despite his big talk about renewing America’s commitments to her allies, Biden still hasn’t called one of our closest allies, Israel. With growing anti-Israel sentiment within the Democratic party, his foreign policy appears to be aimed at placating ideologues rather than preserving American interests. This goes doubly since – though he refuses to talk to Israel – he’s chomping at the bits to talk to Iran.
The Death of Sovereignty in the Democratic World?
This also displays a disturbing trend for Western leaders to use their power to pressure voters in other countries. Though the Democrat’s anti-Israel sentiment runs beyond Bibi, I have to believe* that Benny Gantz would have gotten a call. Given the proximity of the next Israeli elections, the message from Biden to Israeli voters seems clear: vote for who I want, or suffer the consequences.
Though we expect anti-democratic nations like Russia and China to put their fingers on the scale in other countries, democracies used to be better than that. Though the right of self-determination dictates that the PEOPLE of each nation ought to decide their nation’s direction, this concept seems to be rejected by globalist leaders. From Obama threatening Brexit voters to Macron blocking Brazil’s OECD entry, globalist leaders are increasingly willing to tell voters in other countries what to do. At this point, polarization and partisanship cross borders.
The “Defenders of Democracy”
For better or worse, politics is now international and can be divided (generally) into three lanes – right, center, and left. The right is what it’s always been – nationalists bent on preserving their nation’s sovereignty and security, albeit with varying degrees of authoritarianism. The left is primarily** represented by the Chinese Communist Party and its various puppets and consists of those who organize around a central ideology and use totalitarian means to enforce it. The center consists of our great ‘defenders of democracy’ – globalists looking to centralize power in bureaucratic institutions.
The problem with the center is epitomized by Time’s “cabal” – they only defend democracy when it produces the results they want. Unfortunately, true democracy means following the will of the people, not manipulating or bullying the people into doing what the elites want. Behind the window-dressing of “defending democracy” lies an entrenched elite that behaves like the nobles of old – enveloping us peons in red tape, controlling information and what we’re allowed to say, and stopping at nothing to preserve their stranglehold on power.
COVID and Control
Nowhere is this desire to institutionalize and control the population more clearly seen than in the establishment’s response to COVID. What started as “flatten the curve” and “fifteen days to stop the spread” has been extended indefinitely as people in power realized the control they could exercise on everyday citizens. Increasingly, these petty neo-nobles rushed to outdo one another, with each bureaucrat and elected official focused primarily on establishing dominance within their fiefdom through micro-regulations which they didn’t hesitate to flaunt.
It’s no small point that, once we were locked up, these same elites had almost total control of our access to information. Through the election, the center demanded more and more stringent lockdowns; at the same time, Twitter and Facebook became more and more aggressive in shutting down information that didn’t gel with the worldviews of their progressive employees while ignoring excesses and abuses from their own side.
This double standard goes against the very core of the democratic principles they purport to defend. Indeed, it reveals the true goal of the globalists – to create, through regulations, institutionalism, and censorship – a new nobility that preserves their power against the will of the people and the possibility the voters might not do what they want. In the end, it isn’t democracy Time’s “cabal” was defending – it’s oligarchy.
*To be fair, with no evidence but my gut
**American progressives also fall notably in this lane