Mark Rutte's ruling coalition knows it will soon be out of power, so that means ramming through highly questionable, controversial legislation while it still can. Après nous le déluge....
The West's neoliberal parasite class has completely extirpated its capacity for strategic empathy. They've long treated it as a combination of weak will and implicit appeasement. In this, as well as their contempt for the demos, they're much the same as a mediocre mafia.
"our shallow, opportunistic governing class thinks purely in transactional terms: we have our legislative agenda, we have the parliamentary votes; public sentiments be damned. “Democracy” is purely a matter of process for them; the means justify the ends. They view the citizenry with a mixture of fear and contempt"?
That's true of almost all Western governments, and for the same reason: they're not democracies and never have been. Electorates elect absolute monarchs every few years and they do as they see fit. As Lincoln’s Secretary of State, William Henry Seward, observed, “We elect a king for four years and give him absolute power within certain limits which, after all, he can interpret for himself”.
Not so the Chinese. Despite the propaganda, Xi is the least powerful – though most influential – national leader in the world with the possible exception of Singapore.
people like Mark Rutte, most be stopped his fascist tendency has no place in Europe
The West's neoliberal parasite class has completely extirpated its capacity for strategic empathy. They've long treated it as a combination of weak will and implicit appeasement. In this, as well as their contempt for the demos, they're much the same as a mediocre mafia.
"our shallow, opportunistic governing class thinks purely in transactional terms: we have our legislative agenda, we have the parliamentary votes; public sentiments be damned. “Democracy” is purely a matter of process for them; the means justify the ends. They view the citizenry with a mixture of fear and contempt"?
That's true of almost all Western governments, and for the same reason: they're not democracies and never have been. Electorates elect absolute monarchs every few years and they do as they see fit. As Lincoln’s Secretary of State, William Henry Seward, observed, “We elect a king for four years and give him absolute power within certain limits which, after all, he can interpret for himself”.
Not so the Chinese. Despite the propaganda, Xi is the least powerful – though most influential – national leader in the world with the possible exception of Singapore.