The Pendulum Is Swinging the Other Way
The Pendulum Is Swinging the Other Way
Junious Ricardo Stanton
With
the 2024 reelection of Donald J. Trump the ideological and political pendulums
are swinging the other way, going from radical leftist ideation to a “populous”
right wing world view. People were stressed out due to the COVID Psyop which
included constant fearmongering, awfulizing and exaggerating the threat of ill
health and death for a so-called virus that was only lethal to elderly folks
with compromised immune systems and numerous comorbidities.
I placed quotation marks around the word populous
because Trump is not a populous in the truest sense of the word. Populism is
more of a grass roots, bottom-up anti-establishment movement. Trump is not
antiestablishment by any stretch of the imagination. In modern populism, common
people vent their ire against the owners and controllers of global
financialized capital and other transnational elites. An example of modern
populist activism was the US Occupy Wall Street Movement that went global in
2011 and 2012. That movement was eventually shut down by President Barack Obama
prior to the 2012 presidential election campaign because the elites Obama
represented didn’t want a grassroots movement exposing the ravages of the class
war going on in America!
Blue-collar working-class folks
voted for Donald Trump but the people he is listening to in his meetings and
putting in charge of programs and policies are billionaires not ordinary
working stiffs. How many working-class folks has Trump invited to Mar-A-Lago? The
millionaires and billionaires, the ones who contributed to his election
campaign know he will listen to and be motivated to do their bidding. Yes he
has kept some of his campaign promises however, they are not the major policies
that will ultimately define his administration, these kept promises have been
called the low hanging fruit.
Most folks were tired of the
constant gaslighting and obvious lies, the brazen shift away from traditional
values, the feelings of helplessness and loss of control over their personal
lives, their economic situation and their futures. They did not relate to the
extreme policies of the Democratic Party and how politicians of both parties
looked down on them in favor of their campaign contributors. Trump actively
courted them and made them think he was one of them. He is not!
The fear and the resulting stresses many
Americans experienced are the result of a deliberate round the clock media
blitz, intimidation and coercion by the government to submit to taking untested
vaccines or lose your job, professional licenses and businesses. Social
routines were disrupted, family relationships and friendships were torn asunder,
some made irreparable due to the intensity of the COVID fear porn and bone-headed
remediation policies; procedures that are now being revealed that were/are more
damaging than the virus itself. https://slaynews.com/news/covid-vaccines-linked-aggressive-blood-cancer/,
https://www.globalresearch.ca/more-americans-died-covid-19-injections-wwi-wwii-vietnam-war-combined/5878034
This trend has negatively impacted
millions of lives and people are seething and up in arms about it. The fall out
from lockdowns and insane “remediation” protocols for COVID generated unhealthy
stress and anxiety that are still playing out today. The mental health of the
US has declined precipitously and US life expectancy has been in decline for successive
years now.
The escalating inflation and economic
instability experienced by millions and the resulting angst and animosity
towards Western governments are producing massive changes in voter preferences
and voting patterns. In the US, Donald Trump was elected by huge margins. Only
Kamala Harris’s wins in New York and California with their large electoral
votes thwarted a Trump landslide victory. Trump campaigned promising he would
save the day.
In Europe far right and right wing
political parties are emerging and winning icrucial national elections.
Austria, France Germany, Belgium, Portugal and Germany have experienced not
only shifts but election victories in national elections as the mood, tone and
tenor has shifted to the right and far right.
In the US, Donald Trump’s
administration immediately after being inaugurated aggressively moved to keep
some of his campaign promises. Trump is using Executive Orders rather than
legislative deftness and cooperation to: “secure” both the Mexican and Canadian
borders, round up, arrest and deport immigrants prioritizing those with
criminal records or backgrounds and sending the military to bolster the US
southern border with Mexico. He has negated DEI and the sexual dysphoria issues
in the US military and government by Executive Order.
His base loves it. But in their jubilation,
they are not considering possible long term downside. Trump has energized his
base of disaffected white males by eliminating DEI within the federal
government and threatening other institutions and companies with loss of funds,
contracts and access if they do not follow suit. It remains to be seen whether or not his
actions will stand if, and the operative word here is if, they are challenged
in court. It also remains to be seen whether or not Trump’s early actions will
embolden him to take even more belligerent actions and if his base will push
for even more to tip the scales towards a technofascist government. Thus far
Trump has governed through Executive Orders which is not a hallmark of
democracy!
The left has been emasculated. They
are attempting to regroup but it remains to be seen whether or not they can get
Americans to ever trust them again or look to them for meaningful plans and policies
if they refuse to extricate themselves from or abandon their moribund policies
of the past
The pendulum is swinging back, but the
question is, will it create balance or generate more chaos disruption and
division?
posted by Junious Ricardo Stanton @ 7:40 PM
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