Opinion | Why Globalist Left Is On A Sharp Decline In Democracies Worldwide
The Left’s arrogance, disconnectedness with the people, corruption, and elitism has triggered the rise of the Right
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working-class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.
— US Senator Bernie Sanders
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Sanders’s words after Donald Trump’s rampaging win over the Kamala Harris-led Democratic Party capture the paradox of contemporary Leftist politics worldwide.
Communists, right from their ideological father Karl Marx, have claimed to be the sole and biggest champions of the proletariat, or the working class. As it turns out, Leftist-socialist politics across democracies (Communist dictatorships like China or Cuba deserve a separate analysis) has not just deserted the proletariat, but has actively turned on it.
Why has that happened?
It is because the Leftist ideology has been hijacked and weaponised by a globalist elite who look down upon the unwashed working classes, their traditional ways of life, their belief systems and moral universes. These globalists want to supplant those value systems and local/national ways of life with their own, often extremely warped ones like gender surgeries and unchecked immigration.
It fits into the global elitist network’s goals of undermining patriotic citizenry and strong local governments, rendering nations and societies weak enough to be controlled and drained by remote parasites.
As a response, powerful working-class driven nationalist movements, parties, and governments have sprung up in the US, India, Hungary, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, the Netherlands, and so many other places. The Left’s arrogance, disconnectedness with the people, corruption, and elitism has triggered the rise of the Right.
For some time now, shadowy globalist networks run by the likes of George Soros started infiltrating democracies from the US to India, preying on popular centrist parties like the Democratic Party in the US and the Congress in India, and turning them almost far-Left to push their cynical, anti-nationalistic agenda. These networks first leeched on the academia, media, and NGAs, funded and weaponised them to capture people’s mindspace, and then moved to create a highly divisive polity.
It liberally borrowed Left’s tired buzzwords like ‘fascist’, ‘Nazi’, and ‘populist’ and pompously took the ‘progressive’ label for themselves.
In the US and rest of the West, the globalists played on the divide of race and gender to drum up identity wars. In India, it is trying hard to use caste, regional, and religious faultlines — taken straight from the British colonisers’ playbook — to deepen the divide.
But in the process, the globalists have created a Proletariat paradox which Sanders has righty diagnosed. America’s military-industrial complex, controlled by massive investors like Blackrock, has benefitted from the two major wars in Ukraine and Gaza which broke out under Joe Biden, coincidentally the globalist’s candidate.
And as inflation and debt predictably soared and began to hurt ordinary, working-class Americans, the entire Democratic establishment including Biden, Kamala Harris, the Obamas, the Clintons, Nancy Pelosi, and the pliant mainstream media went into denial. Even after losing so badly, the Democrats are busy blaming Americans for being ‘bigots’, ‘fascists’, and ‘misogynists’, refusing to see that they have emptied citizens’ pockets and filled up women’s toilets with biological males calling themselves ‘she/her’. To fill up the pockets of Big Pharma, they pushed dubious Covid vaccines across the population and barbaric gender surgeries on children. Hardworking Americans watched in horror their children’s college campuses taken over by Antifa and Hamas rioters.
Election 2024 could be for the United States what 2014 Lok Sabha election in India. Narendra Modi became PM after ordinary, working-class Indians were fed up by the condescension of a corrupt, English-speaking, power elite towards Hinduness, their way of life, value systems and even mother tongue. This election, Americans sent out a clear message not to mess with their way of life, value systems, and economy.
A period of cleansing and culling is coming in the US and much of the democratic world. The ruthlessly selfish globalist Left will be vanquished by the working classes, who, ironically in Marx’s words, have nothing to lose but their chains.
Abhijit Majumder is a senior journalist. Views expressed in the above piece are personal and solely those of the author. They do not necessarily reflect News18’s views.
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