“By identity, she means “family”, “nation” and “Christian” — all concepts which are “under attack” because of “the politically-correct dictatorship in the hands of Silicon Valley ”. This very broad-brush analysis contains more than trace levels of paranoia:”
Paranoia? The writer is very sure of what is true and what is not – the makings of a good Google ‘Fact Checker’, but maybe not such a great reporter.
Is it really paranoia to think the Liberal/Left Silicon Valley Social Media, entertainment, MSM, Politicals, and Tech companies, are anti ‘Family’, ‘Nation’, and ‘Christianity’? Because they very much are.
Italy walks a wire across an abyss of chaos and destruction. The economy shattered, the people being replaced and not having children, Becoming a subject country to the Brussels Swamp, China buying up more and more of it, and the covid response turning Italy into a broke totalitarian depression. Unless the people discover Nationalism and a will to accept hardship; Freedom instead of a false Safety, they are done for – as most of the West are.
For me, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. When the technocrats impose these non-sensical vaccine passports, self-defeating and tyrannical, then the argument is won in the favour of Meloni.
Covid passports, masking, psychologically abusing people to make them feel ashamed of who they are because of the colour of their skin or their gender, shutting down of genuinely diverse voices in the media, confusing children and young people by denying the ability to think and find out who they are for themselves, dismissing people with valid and real concerns as deplorables and fruitcakes, unwillingness or inability to do anything about decaying living standards, rising inequality, digital creep, and the very real transhumanist threat to life, family, and liberty … all while claiming to represent a sensible centrist middle ground of mildly progressive opinion that is sensibly following the science. We know they are lying, and I suspect they know it too.
But whether they know it or not, the former centre left and centre right are political toast unless their representatives find the courage to leave behind the lies, the lazy labels, the self-delusions of utopian technocracy. Here’a a question for any serving vaguely centrist politician who has the curiosity and awareness required to be reading comments below this article: would it not be better to do this now, positioning yourself to be leading your party and your country out of the quagmire of extremism into which it is inevitably headed when the technocratic nonsense collapses under the weight of its own contradictions, rather than waiting meekly and silently for the dam to break and to be flushed away with the rest of your colleagues? You’ll be likely to find that lifeboats will be in very short supply, but that the public knows what real courage looks like when they see it.
They count the votes so the voters don’t matter. They are paid well and guaranteed a life of luxury as long as they stay on message but I guess I’m just paranoid. They want to recreate the USSR. A technocratic elite consuming all the resources and the masses living a subsistence life. Bread lines are coming.
You replied so I don’t have to. LOL. Yeah. You know. It is far far far right and paranoid to be pro Family, Nation, and Christianity. Clown world.
Julian Farrows
2 years ago
We’re in a weird state of affairs where totalitarianism is considered liberal and any movements challenging this new world order are stigmatized as fascist.
Right on, Brother.
The author does point out — at least twice in this essay — something that is hard not to note about movements everywhere, right now, around the world: a whole bunch of different people are coming together. There must surely be a lot of diversity of policy preferences among such people, but they are expressing a consistent preference in one respect. They want the Administrative State just eph off and leave them alone. Live-and-let-live and all that. Perhaps folks are rediscovering constitutionalism.
Paul Smithson
2 years ago
The constant references to far-right and saying things like:
‘In scenes reminiscent of the January 6 ransacking of the Capitol, Italy’s version of the “Proud Boys” smashed their way into the building with batons, helmets and flags’
made this a challenging article to read. It raised some valid points, but begged as many questions.
This constant use of ‘far-right’ by commentators has diluted the term to such an extent then anyone not waving an LGBT flag, kneeling for BLM, or cheering-on immigrants arriving in inflatable boats seems to be in risk of being labelled far-right.
Indeed but Forza Nuova are far from the only ones out protesting. It is just the same when our media report that far-right EDL thugs were out in force marching against vaccine mandates, when the reality is that it is always a mixed group of peaceful protesters from a wide political spectrum and made up of people of all races, genders and sexual leanings. One only has to watch the live streams of the protests going on throughout the world to see that what the media report and the reality are poles apart.
Or, you could say, when a “centre-right“ mayoral candidate speculates about the international Jewish conspiracy to elicit sympathy for the Holocaust, that the use of the term term “far right” needs to be expanded a bit!
To be fair I think this is correct in Italy’s case.
Like many other European countries their right (and left) are a bit extreme for UK tastes. By our metrics they are probably far-right.
Possibly, but due to the term ‘far-rght’ being used so flippabtly means that their is no longer a term to describe people who are genuinely far right, as just objecting to uncontrolled immigration, or even protesting peacefully for any causes other than black rights or the climate now seems to get one labelled as a far right fascist. Weird times.
We appreciate your point. Every empty incantation of “far right” does make one wonder what game the author might be putting on. Gaslighting and more gaslighting. So tedious.
Dan Croitoru
2 years ago
Regarding the Italian left the author forgot one thing that is the Italian left is utterly and truly fascist
Yup, anyone not in favour of universal vaccinations forevermore, permanent mask-wearing and vaccine passports is now always referred to as a far right anti-vaxxer.
In the West all semblance of (a) personal freedom of belief and expression of that belief and (b) right to bodily integrity has been utterly crushed by a combination of rampant Wokeism and fanatical medico-fascism. When push comes to shove there ain’t a smidgeon of difference between the West and the miscellaneous totalitarian regimes much decried by our commentariat.
I’ve been a middle-of-the-road kinda guy all my life believing in all the guff spouted out about our privileged freedoms we enjoy in the West – but in my middle 70s I’ve completely lost faith in so-called Western democracy – its just a con whose only beneficiaries are journalists in the MSM desperately trying to hold on to their power and influence over the masses and political events in general.
So I’ve lost my bearings. I don’t know any more what’s right, left or centre or if any one of those positions is any better than any other.
I give up.
I feel the same. But please don’t give up. Stay grounded, speak to people, say how you feel – I have found that more people share our perspective than you might think. It’s all going to come crashing down soon and we are going to have to help pick up the pieces and rebuild our reality from the ground up.
Andrew Lale
2 years ago
As soon as I see a reference to ‘far-right’, my suspicion levels climb into the red zone. By my reckoning, ‘far-right’ in 2021 means people who would have been centre right twenty years ago, but who must now be marginalised.
Not even centre right, centrist and centre left (like me) are now far right too – I don’t think transwomen are women, and I am not a fan of Islam – BECAUSE I’m an old school liberal!!!
Leslie Cook
2 years ago
Kudos for reporting on Trieste. Don’t agree with all of the analysis but MSM blackout has been egregious.
Agreed! Most MSM reporters cannot see beyond Rome and Milan ( or Naples occasionally if the Mafia are the issue.)
Peta Seel
2 years ago
““Very, very many people no longer believe that it’s possible to change things with the vote,” Does no-one see the dangers in this? If people don’t believe they can change things with a democratic vote eventually they will resort to other ways of doing so. Maybe civil wars are not so very far away.
i posted something similar in response to a previous piece.
Someone responded to me stating that the West`s leaders would have banned voting decades ago if it actually did work !.. made me smile!
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Jim Cooper
2 years ago
Can journalists – even thoughtful ones – not find a better term than “far right”? Today it means almost NOTHING ; hence so easily abused. As in Britain, are we not really talking here about the descendants of the pre-mass migration Industrial working class whose identity and concerns have been REDACTED from the political story told by the left Liberal hegemony? This us truly a dangerous state of affairs…
Modern journalists are by definition ‘busy bodies’
Lloyd Byler
2 years ago
As for the technological creep.. blame the success of Windows 95 and .. Bill Gates..
I call this phenomenon, the ‘Averaging Factor of Progress’
.. ergo, without the success of the emblematic Windows 95 this tech creep would be impossible, Gates would have never rose with such power as he (thinks) that he has.
In a more dramatic example of the ‘averaging factor of progress’ In rush hour traffic, how much faster are we traveling than a bicycle, a horse and buggy or even walking for that matter? Yes, within an ‘average factor’ we indeed are traveling faster with the modern transports; but there are always averaging factors to all progress.
All technological tools of advancement will by definition have to become Public Utilities and/or heavily regulated in a democratic fashion similar to the airline and auto industry. Otherwise, the so called technological advancement in society will push humanity into the dark ages of tyranny and subversion and one can never fool all the people all the time, so this current slide towards despotism as promulgated by the success of ‘Windows 95’ will self-correct.
Would anyone in their right mind make a machine that self-destructs? What would be the purpose of designing, building and populating a device or system that self-destructs?
The only reason these technocrats and their medical minions are pushing forward with their technocracy is because they are drunk with power and because they do not understand history.
The day is coming when these unelected technological and medical morons will understand history… while languishing in prison.
“By identity, she means “family”, “nation” and “Christian” — all concepts which are “under attack” because of “the politically-correct dictatorship in the hands of Silicon Valley ”. This very broad-brush analysis contains more than trace levels of paranoia:”
Paranoia? The writer is very sure of what is true and what is not – the makings of a good Google ‘Fact Checker’, but maybe not such a great reporter.
Is it really paranoia to think the Liberal/Left Silicon Valley Social Media, entertainment, MSM, Politicals, and Tech companies, are anti ‘Family’, ‘Nation’, and ‘Christianity’? Because they very much are.
Italy walks a wire across an abyss of chaos and destruction. The economy shattered, the people being replaced and not having children, Becoming a subject country to the Brussels Swamp, China buying up more and more of it, and the covid response turning Italy into a broke totalitarian depression. Unless the people discover Nationalism and a will to accept hardship; Freedom instead of a false Safety, they are done for – as most of the West are.
For me, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. When the technocrats impose these non-sensical vaccine passports, self-defeating and tyrannical, then the argument is won in the favour of Meloni.
Yet they all seem to like it.
But it is also true that a small swing in Meloni’s favour could actually give her power.
Covid passports, masking, psychologically abusing people to make them feel ashamed of who they are because of the colour of their skin or their gender, shutting down of genuinely diverse voices in the media, confusing children and young people by denying the ability to think and find out who they are for themselves, dismissing people with valid and real concerns as deplorables and fruitcakes, unwillingness or inability to do anything about decaying living standards, rising inequality, digital creep, and the very real transhumanist threat to life, family, and liberty … all while claiming to represent a sensible centrist middle ground of mildly progressive opinion that is sensibly following the science. We know they are lying, and I suspect they know it too.
But whether they know it or not, the former centre left and centre right are political toast unless their representatives find the courage to leave behind the lies, the lazy labels, the self-delusions of utopian technocracy. Here’a a question for any serving vaguely centrist politician who has the curiosity and awareness required to be reading comments below this article: would it not be better to do this now, positioning yourself to be leading your party and your country out of the quagmire of extremism into which it is inevitably headed when the technocratic nonsense collapses under the weight of its own contradictions, rather than waiting meekly and silently for the dam to break and to be flushed away with the rest of your colleagues? You’ll be likely to find that lifeboats will be in very short supply, but that the public knows what real courage looks like when they see it.
Well said
They count the votes so the voters don’t matter. They are paid well and guaranteed a life of luxury as long as they stay on message but I guess I’m just paranoid. They want to recreate the USSR. A technocratic elite consuming all the resources and the masses living a subsistence life. Bread lines are coming.
You replied so I don’t have to. LOL. Yeah. You know. It is far far far right and paranoid to be pro Family, Nation, and Christianity. Clown world.
We’re in a weird state of affairs where totalitarianism is considered liberal and any movements challenging this new world order are stigmatized as fascist.
Succinctly put.
Right on, Brother.
The author does point out — at least twice in this essay — something that is hard not to note about movements everywhere, right now, around the world: a whole bunch of different people are coming together. There must surely be a lot of diversity of policy preferences among such people, but they are expressing a consistent preference in one respect. They want the Administrative State just eph off and leave them alone. Live-and-let-live and all that. Perhaps folks are rediscovering constitutionalism.
The constant references to far-right and saying things like:
‘In scenes reminiscent of the January 6 ransacking of the Capitol, Italy’s version of the “Proud Boys” smashed their way into the building with batons, helmets and flags’
made this a challenging article to read. It raised some valid points, but begged as many questions.
This constant use of ‘far-right’ by commentators has diluted the term to such an extent then anyone not waving an LGBT flag, kneeling for BLM, or cheering-on immigrants arriving in inflatable boats seems to be in risk of being labelled far-right.
Well, Forza Nuova is hardly a bridge club filled with older ladies.
Indeed but Forza Nuova are far from the only ones out protesting. It is just the same when our media report that far-right EDL thugs were out in force marching against vaccine mandates, when the reality is that it is always a mixed group of peaceful protesters from a wide political spectrum and made up of people of all races, genders and sexual leanings. One only has to watch the live streams of the protests going on throughout the world to see that what the media report and the reality are poles apart.
Or, you could say, when a “centre-right“ mayoral candidate speculates about the international Jewish conspiracy to elicit sympathy for the Holocaust, that the use of the term term “far right” needs to be expanded a bit!
To be fair I think this is correct in Italy’s case.
Like many other European countries their right (and left) are a bit extreme for UK tastes. By our metrics they are probably far-right.
Possibly, but due to the term ‘far-rght’ being used so flippabtly means that their is no longer a term to describe people who are genuinely far right, as just objecting to uncontrolled immigration, or even protesting peacefully for any causes other than black rights or the climate now seems to get one labelled as a far right fascist. Weird times.
Completely agree as a general point. But felt in this case it wasn’t pushing that definition
You’re right.
Maybe, just maybe these affective movements are Far Freedom?
Let’s all join the far, far, far, far right. Right?
We appreciate your point. Every empty incantation of “far right” does make one wonder what game the author might be putting on. Gaslighting and more gaslighting. So tedious.
Regarding the Italian left the author forgot one thing that is the Italian left is utterly and truly fascist
Indeed – routinely holding birthday honours for Chairman Mao (!!)
What is deliberately covered up is that fascism and leftism is the same.
How the hell is it ‘far right’ to resist draconian government laws?????
Yup, anyone not in favour of universal vaccinations forevermore, permanent mask-wearing and vaccine passports is now always referred to as a far right anti-vaxxer.
In the West all semblance of (a) personal freedom of belief and expression of that belief and (b) right to bodily integrity has been utterly crushed by a combination of rampant Wokeism and fanatical medico-fascism. When push comes to shove there ain’t a smidgeon of difference between the West and the miscellaneous totalitarian regimes much decried by our commentariat.
I’ve been a middle-of-the-road kinda guy all my life believing in all the guff spouted out about our privileged freedoms we enjoy in the West – but in my middle 70s I’ve completely lost faith in so-called Western democracy – its just a con whose only beneficiaries are journalists in the MSM desperately trying to hold on to their power and influence over the masses and political events in general.
So I’ve lost my bearings. I don’t know any more what’s right, left or centre or if any one of those positions is any better than any other.
I give up.
I feel the same. But please don’t give up. Stay grounded, speak to people, say how you feel – I have found that more people share our perspective than you might think. It’s all going to come crashing down soon and we are going to have to help pick up the pieces and rebuild our reality from the ground up.
As soon as I see a reference to ‘far-right’, my suspicion levels climb into the red zone. By my reckoning, ‘far-right’ in 2021 means people who would have been centre right twenty years ago, but who must now be marginalised.
Not even centre right, centrist and centre left (like me) are now far right too – I don’t think transwomen are women, and I am not a fan of Islam – BECAUSE I’m an old school liberal!!!
Kudos for reporting on Trieste. Don’t agree with all of the analysis but MSM blackout has been egregious.
Agreed! Most MSM reporters cannot see beyond Rome and Milan ( or Naples occasionally if the Mafia are the issue.)
““Very, very many people no longer believe that it’s possible to change things with the vote,”
Does no-one see the dangers in this? If people don’t believe they can change things with a democratic vote eventually they will resort to other ways of doing so. Maybe civil wars are not so very far away.
i posted something similar in response to a previous piece.
Someone responded to me stating that the West`s leaders would have banned voting decades ago if it actually did work !.. made me smile!
Can journalists – even thoughtful ones – not find a better term than “far right”? Today it means almost NOTHING ; hence so easily abused. As in Britain, are we not really talking here about the descendants of the pre-mass migration Industrial working class whose identity and concerns have been REDACTED from the political story told by the left Liberal hegemony? This us truly a dangerous state of affairs…
Modern journalists are by definition ‘busy bodies’
As for the technological creep.. blame the success of Windows 95 and .. Bill Gates..
I call this phenomenon, the ‘Averaging Factor of Progress’
.. ergo, without the success of the emblematic Windows 95 this tech creep would be impossible, Gates would have never rose with such power as he (thinks) that he has.
In a more dramatic example of the ‘averaging factor of progress’ In rush hour traffic, how much faster are we traveling than a bicycle, a horse and buggy or even walking for that matter? Yes, within an ‘average factor’ we indeed are traveling faster with the modern transports; but there are always averaging factors to all progress.
All technological tools of advancement will by definition have to become Public Utilities and/or heavily regulated in a democratic fashion similar to the airline and auto industry. Otherwise, the so called technological advancement in society will push humanity into the dark ages of tyranny and subversion and one can never fool all the people all the time, so this current slide towards despotism as promulgated by the success of ‘Windows 95’ will self-correct.
Would anyone in their right mind make a machine that self-destructs? What would be the purpose of designing, building and populating a device or system that self-destructs?
The only reason these technocrats and their medical minions are pushing forward with their technocracy is because they are drunk with power and because they do not understand history.
The day is coming when these unelected technological and medical morons will understand history… while languishing in prison.