Meet the apparatchik and party hack Günther Oettinger whose wet dreams, apparently, involve (even) more centralised planning by Brussels because Russia! Russia! Russia!
When we stop being guided by noble aims, the system first becomes guided by grift, which eventually deteriorates into an all out plundering stage, where the system cannibalizes its own. Malevolent spirit rules!
A century ago, there was no confusion among the middle, working and under-classes as to why there were problems, who was to blame and who was being favoured by the officials.
Today, that understanding is nowhere, as election results in Germany shows quite clearly. If the situation was such that Germans understood and dared to realise what has been done to them, then AfD would have gotten 2/3s of the votes and the EU had stepped in and declared the election null and void, as they have done elsewhere.
(In fact, I think Ireland voting on the Euro in the 1990s until they voted "correctly" was the first time it became obvious what the EU is, and what it is is not democratic in the slightest.)
Since realising what the problem is, is Crimethink and since everyone born after the 1940s are fully condtioned in Crimestop and breaking that conditioning is very difficult, I hazard that we need actual and real starvation and state-mandated roving mobs migrants going house-to-house and "confiscating" things on behalf of Our Democracy, before realisation hits.
Your final paragraph sums up my current thinking, with perhaps the addition that these gov't mobs will likely be clashing with the 'caliphate is the solution' crowds.
Nothing could be more pleasing to the powers-that-be for these conditions will make the public beg for the restoration of 'law and order', which will be, of course, have a steep price in civil liberties and associated notions.
When we stop being guided by noble aims, the system first becomes guided by grift, which eventually deteriorates into an all out plundering stage, where the system cannibalizes its own. Malevolent spirit rules!
Somehow your comment reminds me of one Frederic Bastiat....
A century ago, there was no confusion among the middle, working and under-classes as to why there were problems, who was to blame and who was being favoured by the officials.
Today, that understanding is nowhere, as election results in Germany shows quite clearly. If the situation was such that Germans understood and dared to realise what has been done to them, then AfD would have gotten 2/3s of the votes and the EU had stepped in and declared the election null and void, as they have done elsewhere.
(In fact, I think Ireland voting on the Euro in the 1990s until they voted "correctly" was the first time it became obvious what the EU is, and what it is is not democratic in the slightest.)
Since realising what the problem is, is Crimethink and since everyone born after the 1940s are fully condtioned in Crimestop and breaking that conditioning is very difficult, I hazard that we need actual and real starvation and state-mandated roving mobs migrants going house-to-house and "confiscating" things on behalf of Our Democracy, before realisation hits.
Your final paragraph sums up my current thinking, with perhaps the addition that these gov't mobs will likely be clashing with the 'caliphate is the solution' crowds.
Nothing could be more pleasing to the powers-that-be for these conditions will make the public beg for the restoration of 'law and order', which will be, of course, have a steep price in civil liberties and associated notions.
26.03.2020 This war needs a wartime-economy. Antonio Gutuerresz.
With a greetings from the global security organisation. https://www.un.org/en/coronavirus/war-needs-war-time-plan-fight-it
War-time economy was called out on 26.03.2020 - from General Secretary of the World Peace Organisation. https://www.un.org/en/coronavirus/war-needs-war-time-plan-fight-it