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Scare stories will not stop populist insurrections

The Financial Times ^ | September 25th, 2016 | Wolfgang Münchau

Posted on by Mariner

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Britains vote to leave the EU has been the most cataclysmic global political event this year so far. Over the next 12 months, we may see one or more of the following: a victory of Donald Trump in the US; a defeat of Italys government in a referendum over constitutional reforms; a Marine Le Pen victory in the French presidential election; a rightwing anti-immigration and anti-euro party becoming Germanys largest opposition party. Not all these calamities will happen. But one or two might. And to this list one could add a few minor misfortunes, such as the failure of bilateral trade deals between the EU and the US or Canada.

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They bring out the same tactics because it's all they've got.



To: Mariner

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To: Mariner

Trump as president is a “calamity?” I suppose to statist a he is. For the rest of us he’s our last hope.



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by 4 posted onby dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)

To: from occupied ga

The most exciting thing going on in America today is the alt-right movement. I don’t know that much about it yet. But if it pisses off liberals, there has to be something good about it.



To: Mariner

What a bunch of smarmy elitists. Brexit came and went. And the market is now where it was before the vote. The brief reaction after the vote was from the press and the parade of elites including bankers and Obama who tried to scare the people out of voting for Brexit. The same will happen if Trump wins the debates and then the election. The market will have a brief tantrum. But then it will recover. Nothing will really change after the vote with regard to the stock market. But there will be a mini crash just the same, because elites believe their own crap.



To: Mariner





by 7 posted onby dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)

To: dragnet2

1. Very cool graphics. 2. The Financial Times is owned by the NY Slimes, surprise, surprise.



by 8 posted onby Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)

To: Mariner

The globalist internationalists have a terrible problem: they equate having power as being the solution to all problems, because they are such superior elites. This defies both reason and objectivity. The socialists are the worst, because what was once their philosophy has become little more than a religion. Because it fails in all things, no matter how many times it is tried, they are caught in a spiral of failure. It is ironic that they are amazingly adept at subverting existing institutions to their cause, the same with scheming and gradualism to achieve their ends. But their ends are still crap. Awful, worthless, dehumanizing crap. Globalism is a fantasy which lasts until you actually meet the rest of the “citizens of the world”. There is no way a sane person would ever allow such individuals to have power over them. You might as well join a pack of feral dogs.



by 9 posted onby yefragetuwrabrumuy (Friday, January 20, 2017. Reparations end.)

To: GodAndCountryFirst

It is the conservative alternative to social justice warriors, but 5-10 years later.



To: Mariner

“populist insurrections” = “calamities” Yes, “populist insurrections” are indeed “calamities” for the ultra-wealthy elitist, globalist, plutocrats and oligarchs.



by 11 posted onby catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)

To: Mariner

What a screeching tirade this is. Toss little Wolfgang his pacifier.



To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Just a decade or two ago ago many folks we’re thinking all the globalist talk was the realm of conspiracy crackpots. The majority now understand it’s very real. It’s why they hand off things like the control of Internet to foreigners in other lands. Or make trade deals that make our enemies applaud. Or create compassionate wars lasting decades costing trillions. That alone should be enough to make folks stand up and say, WT~



by 13 posted onby dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)

To: GodAndCountryFirst

Below are 2 examples of the alt right and why they have the Left in a rage. https://mobile.twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/778384828454563840/video/1 Save the Day Remix - The Avengers Unite to Support Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIRE40X-Q7k&feature=youtu.be



by 14 posted onby Nacho Bidnith (America is a country founded by geniuses and run by idiots. Trump 2016)

To: Mariner

Wolfgang has the vapors. Oh no.



To: GodAndCountryFirst

To: Luke21

What a screeching tirade this is. Toss little Wolfgang his pacifier. Aww... Wuffie needs his binkie... the infowarrior



To: Mariner

So who is this writer? https://www.ft.com/comment/columnists/wolfgang-munchau Wolfgang Münchau

EUROPEAN COMMENTATOR Wolfgang Münchau is an associate editor of the Financial Times, where he writes a weekly column about the European Union and the European economy. Before taking up this position in September 2003, he was co-editor of Financial Times Deutschland for two years. Before joining FT Deutschland, Mr Münchau was a Frankfurt correspondent and later economics correspondent of the Financial Times, reporting on the preparation for the final stage of monetary union and the launch of the euro. So this guy is a European mainstream media member for a globalist financial paper. In general, they are horrified at the prospect of a Trump over there, as too many gravy trains might end. I read the weekend FT on the plane back from Amsterdam yesterday, and this shines through in side comments in a few of the articles. One example was that they believe Trump might not honor NATO commitments. There is not a hint of understanding that they are not honoring theirs by not having militaries worthy of the name to contribute to the NATO cause if the rubber ever meets the road. No, they just want us to nuke the Russians if things ever get serious, I suppose. But Trump is somehow prima facie evil for pointing this out in a way that cannot be ignored. Wolfgang Münchau and the rest of the Leftist media globalists at FT can go take a long walk off a short pier.



To: dragnet2

Conservatives need to learn that there are two groups that advocate for globalism. The obvious one are the socialists, members of the Socialist International, an organization of leftist political parties from around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_International They see as their primary objective the ending of nations as such, which they see as “contrivances” that just promote war. For this reason, they continually push for open borders, unlimited immigration (on condition that the immigrants agree to back the socialists), and the destruction of heterogeneous peoples, cultures, languages, histories, and non-socialist forms of government, excepting dictatorships and tyrannies. Eventually they want nations to become one-party socialist districts in large socialist economic blocs. All ruled by giant, unelected, faceless bureaucracies, and led by hereditary elites, the socialist leaders and their families. The other group “hide in plain sight” but are equally repulsive. They are the corporatist multinationalists. They see socialists of all stripes as imbeciles, and dream of a corporatocracy to rule the world. With, of course, the corporate leaders and *their* families being the ruling elite over gigantic, unelected, faceless bureaucracies. But as much as they detest socialists, they do embrace some of the socialist ideas, like universal health care and retirement, with the idea of forcing the people to pay for their own upkeep, so the corporations do not have to. In short, the 1975 movie Rollerball, is precisely what they want to achieve with globalism. Their credo is that “what is good for business is good for all.” Yeah, to Hell with them, too. In the US, the Democrats are the socialist party. The Socialist Party of America announced in their October 2009 newsletter that 70 Congressional democrats currently belonged to their caucus. (Though this outing cost many of them their jobs.) The corporatist multinationalists were the leadership of the Republican party. This is why for so many years they found common cause with the Democrats, even if that meant just not resisting their socialist schemes. Only with the rise of the Tea Party did they really get unmasked, and a gradual purge of the leadership began, which continues today. The popularity of Donald Trump has a strong core of people who see what the Democrats and the Republican leadership have and continued to offer, and are desperate to stop it. And this core is so potent that even when the two devils throw hundreds of millions of dollars against it, their own and even taxpayer money, it achieves nothing. Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush failed spectacularly. It is not just their ideas that are being rejected, but themselves and their families as well.



by 19 posted onby yefragetuwrabrumuy (Friday, January 20, 2017. Reparations end.)

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