Comments by "Edward McLaughlin" (@edwardmclaughlin7935) on "Brit in Germany"
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"Gen Z" takes a lot of flak from old gits like me, but I find it inspiring and quite heartwarming to hear that 95% of them have no confidence in the press. Maybe there's hope even yet?
Having trust in something is not the great quality it might once have been. 100% of cows trust their farmer - to them, that final climb up the ramp of the lorry, is a move to better grazing. We have all learned over the events of the past four years and more - those who have an inquisitive disposition, a backbone and an internet connection, that is - that blind faith in governments and institutions is definitely not a healthy state of mind
I'm baffled about the German people. From my distance I admire German achievement greatly and my perception is that it has come through a national/ethnic/societal propensity toward fastidiousness and an innate interest, just in things being in their right place - my admiration sits on the basis of my shared outlook. However, I'm baffled. How can such a responsible mindset allow itself to be made to accept, with little protest, the eye-watering kicks in the gonads that Germany is taking? It's all very well being confident in your government, if only they are looking after you; but how are the German people putting-up with having their business model trashed by their supposed close ally? Put bluntly, who blew-up Nordstream and why is nobody wanting to know?
What happens in US and UK politics when confidence levels go even lower? Well then the way is clear to sweep away the semblance of democracy and crack-on with the authoritarian collectivist project that our elite class is so patiently waiting to introduce.
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It is strange that this film, purporting to investigate the state of play in Europe, features not the slightest mention of the dreadful war being waged on its eastern margin; a war that the EU had a central part in creating, and which the EU seems determined to prolong and escalate.
This is counter to the wishes of the vast majority of the people, yet the leaders in Brussels do not even consult their respective constituents - oblivious to calls for peace, they - along with their 'ally' the UK - just ramp up their tub-thumping in their evident enthusiasm for the project of sending young men to do what their forefathers did in those previous wars: namely, die. So much for the peace-seeking motivations of those who founded the EU.
The democracy that is such a vaunted part of European politics: where is it anymore? It has become customary for election results to be brushed aside if they are not to the liking of the central clique. France and Germany are now - through cynical filibustering - ruled by people whose policies run counter to the wishes of the people. Even more blatantly, whole nations such as Ireland and recently Romania, are made to return to the ballot box to vote again if the winning party is not to the taste of the EU leadership.
To whimsically bemoan the difficulties of the EU project might have been appropriate between 2016 and 2020; but since then the tenor has changed; the world is being made more brutal. Even the dullest and slowest have had enough pass before their eyes, to realise that the relationship is now changed, the social contract broken. The pandemic and lockdowns were none of it needed for the reasons given. They were put here to instigate something else. Just when the psychological trauma of that episode had begun to wane and the people were straying audaciously back toward repair; they were gifted with a war that had been carefully cultivated since the Clinton administration. Europe, the EU and Britain were fully on-board with the military adventure to ruin the Russian Federation so as to take its stuff. Again: what happened to the peace-loving yearnings of European collaboration?
Europe is indeed being transformed: it once was an industrial big-hitter, paying its way by the labours of its peoples who thereby prospered. The future from here looks at best - and if we manage to avoid the nuclear cataclysm that seems to politicians so endearing - one of incrementally dispensed pauperism, lorded over, literally, by a privileged class of superiors. Germany is the engine of Europe and is barely running on three cylinders. We all still go to work, draw our salaries and take out nice holidays, but Europeans are being quietly, slowly straitened, made less. The situation is much more urgent and desperate than this artful investigative monologue would suggest.
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I appreciate and agree with all of this. However, there is something missing here that affects Britain and Germany.
These two countries are both in the political grip of the same movement which has been developing for some time now, but has strengthened and become more strident in the last five years.
The infamous 'bubble' exists by which the political elites' motivations and direction, increasingly identifies itself as being out of sync' with the wishes of the public. To be blunt, both countries have been subjected to a stealthy, silent coup. They are not on their own - all European governments have been similarly taken-over, as have others across the globe.
The result is not attractive, not welcome. We now no longer have the feeling that we matter to those who govern; perhaps we never did, but we had at least the semblance of belonging. It's now gone. The whole tenor of this piece for instance, is that of a sense of regret, of having lost a precious possession. We don't feel good and so we decline conversations on the subject in the hope that our sense of loss will not be made worse or more embedded. It's like not talking about cancer in the hope that it might not visit.
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