Post by NFA on Nov 9, 2020 23:03:49 GMT 8
Jacinda, Justin, Joe, Boris and ScMo - A Busted Flush for the Anglosphere?
Written by Paul Collits Monday, 09 November 2020 11:30
The Anglosphere faces a crisis of leadership. The West is now ruled wall-to-wall by second rate ideologues and/or chancers, either determined to change the global order or powerless to prevent the revolution we now face.
Polities with democratic traditions going back centuries are now all ruled by careerist buffoons or leftist ideologues. Or both. Facing national and global challenges that demand the likes of Henry the Fifth, John of Gaunt, both Elisabeths, Wellington, Disraeli, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Churchill, Attlee, Thatcher, Menzies, Howard, Roosevelt the Second and Reagan, we have not come up – no pun intended and sticking to the card games theme – trumps.
With the election, barring legal mishaps, of the decrepit Joe Biden in the USA, the Anglosphere now has achieved perhaps the most awful collection of non-leaders it has ever had at any one time. And we are stuck with all of them for quite a time. And with so much on our plates, too.
We have Boris (or, now more likely his, no doubt equally awful, successor) till 2024, currently with a healthy majority but little competence, unity or purpose in the face of challenges demanding, well, leadership.
The same with Biden, or in his almost inevitable further mental decline, Ms Harris, a likely president chosen for her skin colour and her chromosomes rather than for any noticeable ability. In any case, America will be run at the national level by a bunch of leftist thugs who came to power on the back of Covid 19 and ballot rigging. Biden was the accidental candidate, and prospered by hiding in his basement and doing almost nothing, in an election year where the economy tanked as a result of a virus rather than a president, and where most important policy decisions were taken not in Washington but in the fifty state capitals.
With the election, barring legal mishaps, of the decrepit Joe Biden in the USA, the Anglosphere now has achieved perhaps the most awful collection of non-leaders it has ever had at any one time. And we are stuck with all of them for quite a time. And with so much on our plates, too.
We have Boris (or, now more likely his, no doubt equally awful, successor) till 2024, currently with a healthy majority but little competence, unity or purpose in the face of challenges demanding, well, leadership.
The same with Biden, or in his almost inevitable further mental decline, Ms Harris, a likely president chosen for her skin colour and her chromosomes rather than for any noticeable ability. In any case, America will be run at the national level by a bunch of leftist thugs who came to power on the back of Covid 19 and ballot rigging. Biden was the accidental candidate, and prospered by hiding in his basement and doing almost nothing, in an election year where the economy tanked as a result of a virus rather than a president, and where most important policy decisions were taken not in Washington but in the fifty state capitals.
The current lot have simply delivered a new (Covid) tyranny where freedom no longer has a safe haven, and a world that none of the great men of the mid twentieth century would remotely understand.
The American conservative writer Rod Dreher famously came up with a strategy for Christians and conservative fellow travellers to deal with life in a secularist, post-Christian world of, at best, discomfort, and at worst, persecution. He called it the “Benedict option”. St Benedict simply retreated to the caves in the face of godlessness and hopelessness, and, to his surprise, was joined by a band of brothers equally seeking a simple, moral life far away from the world’s madness. They then built a movement of renewal.
In the face of an Anglosphere now in the hands of the enemy, the cave plan has some appeal. Alternate strategies for survival are thin on the ground.
The prospects for the West in the coming years do not bode well, to put it very mildly. Clint Eastwood, playing Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway in Heartbreak Ridge, might (colourfully) describe the current state of the Anglosphere as a “cluster f…”
Who among us would demur?
The American conservative writer Rod Dreher famously came up with a strategy for Christians and conservative fellow travellers to deal with life in a secularist, post-Christian world of, at best, discomfort, and at worst, persecution. He called it the “Benedict option”. St Benedict simply retreated to the caves in the face of godlessness and hopelessness, and, to his surprise, was joined by a band of brothers equally seeking a simple, moral life far away from the world’s madness. They then built a movement of renewal.
In the face of an Anglosphere now in the hands of the enemy, the cave plan has some appeal. Alternate strategies for survival are thin on the ground.
The prospects for the West in the coming years do not bode well, to put it very mildly. Clint Eastwood, playing Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway in Heartbreak Ridge, might (colourfully) describe the current state of the Anglosphere as a “cluster f…”
Who among us would demur?
