IN A recent article for the Observer, the comedian and actor David Mitchell expressed shock that an opinion poll suggested 52 per cent of Gen Z (13- to 27-year-olds) would opt for dictatorship over liberal democracy if given the choice.
In response to Mitchell’s piece, the comedian and TV presenter Leo Kearse articulated that the real threat to liberal democracy comes from a left-liberal political establishment and deep state that undermines the wishes of much of the population:
‘David, people are losing faith in democracy because it’s not enacting the will of the people. Nobody has ever voted for unconstrained mass immigration, child rape gangs or blasphemy laws. But these are all things foisted on us anyway. Because we’re not in a democracy – we’re governed by an unelected bureaucracy of civil servants, NGOs and quangos, with an occasional reshuffle of the politicians who pretend they make decisions. Look at the Rwanda plan. Look at Brexit. At this point, how would a Bukele-style dictator be worse? To save democracy, we should try actually having it.’
Leo Kearse’s astute analysis was echoed by US Vice President JD Vance in his recent speech at the Munich Security Conference when he reiterated that the threat to democracy across Europe comes from an elite political class which is hostile and aloof to the concerns of its citizens.
Instead of reflecting on the Vice President’s advice to listen to the concerns of their citizens, the entire ‘progressive’ political and media establishment across Europe dismissed his advice out of hand, thus confirming his point.
The perilous state of democracy here in the UK was recently raised by Liz Truss in an interview with the podcaster Peter McCormack.
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The former PM outlined how the real power in Britain lies not with elected MPs and the government but with unelected bureaucrats who will thwart the democratic mandate of any government who do not align with their ideological biases. For a mainstream media that lecture us regularly about purported threats to democracy, why are they not amplifying the voice of a former PM pointing out how elected politicians are increasingly powerless in the UK? The simple answer to this is that the most of the establishment media are the public relations arm of the ‘progressive’ deep state, and ‘progressives’ have a very selective understanding of what democracy should entail.
In the mind of any ‘progressive’, democracy is when the result of an election leads to a government who enact policies which complement or at the very least do not conflict with the left-liberal ideology of the deep state. When the winner of an election is a figure like Trump, who unlike the fake Conservative Party in the UK decides to root out the ‘progressive’ deep state to implement the policies the electorate voted for, this is deemed ‘authoritarianism’ and ‘an attack on the institutions of democracy’. Similar sentiments have been expressed about the democratically elected Viktor Orban in Hungary.
‘Progressives’ are so blinded by what Thomas Sowell calls the ‘vision of the anointed’ that they believe they have a divine right to implement their agenda even when the electorate reject them at the ballot box. Opponents of radical ‘progressivism’ both in the UK and the rest of Europe are becoming increasingly aware that democratic mandates can be blocked by ideologically motivated bureaucrats. Unless Europeans are able to elect politicians who can effect root and branch reform of our ideologically captured political and state institutions, we are heading for calamity
In the final paragraphs below, there’s an outline of a hypothetical scenario. It’s a prediction that is not definite, but the fact that it’s even a possibility should have us all deeply worried. Only 15 years ago, if someone stated they could envisage European societies heading in this direction, almost everyone would have dismissed him or her as a conspiracy theorist who spends too much time reading dystopian literature. Nowadays, many of us feel like we are actually living in the opening chapters of a dystopian novel.
In the coming years, it is likely that Islamist terror attacks and migrant sexual violence continue to escalate in the UK and much of the EU as a result of immigration and asylum policies. Predictably, the progressive political establishments, here and in the EU, will continue to smear those objecting to the consequences of mass immigration as ‘far right’.
The UK and other European states will likely increase authoritarian measures, not to combat Islamism and migrant crime in general but to be deployed against the ever-growing number of protests calling for the scrapping of the ECHR and for strict limits on all immigration. When some protests lead to factions within them breaking away and engaging in violence or rioting, such behaviour will be used as the pretext to smear all protesters as ‘far right thugs’ and, as with the riots after the Southport atrocity, peaceful protesters and people being angry on the internet will be jailed.
Ongoing unrest and the authoritarian reaction of governments would result in a large swathe of the populations of European countries withdrawing their allegiance to the state because they view it as being openly hostile to their security and wellbeing. Should we reach this point, the liberal democratic order is finally over and the state can assert authority only by becoming increasingly totalitarian. This in turn will lead to the emergence of militias and paramilitary organisations coming into direct conflict with both the state and Islamist groups.
While this nightmare scenario isn’t a certainty, it’s a plausible one on the dystopian path our elites are marching us all down at rapid speed.
The UK and Europe need our own versions of Trump and Vance to clear out the deep state or we are doomed. It’s our only hope.
