Liberals Abandoned Liberalism. Don't be Surprised by What Happens Next.

This is an interesting discussion from across the pond. Young conservative Connor Tomlinson tells old liberal journalists that young Britons won't defend Britain because they think it's a racist country, and that a kind of fake "liberal democracy" is to blame for this state of affairs. I concur.

Tomlinson: "the more politics is stage-managed by a faceless bureaucracy of ostensibly-neutral bodies, ideologically-aligned 'experts,' NGOs, a partisan media, and the judiciary, then the more that the voting public will become disillusioned with what the ruling elite defend as 'democracy.'" (Supporting blog post here.)

Former BBC journalist Owen Bennett-Jones defends that version of democracy, saying "it remains inexplicable" how fascism could have happened in Germany, that the post-war European order was built on "fear of fascism," and that we want to "avoid that happening again."

People like Bennett-Jones a) don't know how fascism happened, b) defend a social contract they have already abandoned, and c) demand a new political order that extinguishes free speech and free elections to save us from "fascism."

The social contract of the West (the values of free elections, freedom of speech, assembly, religion, etc.) has been cancelled by leaders of the West who wear "democracy" as a costume.

As Tomlinson points out, that is a massive problem: "61% of 18-34s said [in 2022] that 'having a strong leader who does not have to bother with parliament and elections would be a good way of governing this country.'"

Given what is happening in Britain these days, if I had to pick one quote to illustrate the mindset of Owen Bennett-Jones, this would be it: "the government organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom, but retains what is essential; the deciding power in this question cannot be the individual, but the government alone."

Who said that? Benito Mussolini.

No one knows exactly what happens next — in the UK or in the U.S. — but no one should be surprised if the next new world order doesn't include free elections or free speech.

I wouldn't be surprised if Mussolini's words from the last century finally prove true almost 100 years later: "Never before have the peoples thirsted for authority, direction, order, as they do now. If each age has its doctrine, then innumerable symptoms indicate that the doctrine of our age is the Fascist."