Sunday, December 15, 2024

Overton Window in Foreign Policy: No "Democracy" Here!

 Wauck finds another gem, this from Armchair Warlord.

...First a primer on how the Western Regime actually works - the "Regime," such as it is, is not a unified body directly controlling the Western World from the shadows. It is a mechanism of consensus-forcing among the transatlantic political elite that dictates the boundaries of acceptable political discourse - the "Overton Window" - in official Western policymaking. Control the Overton Window, and impose severe consequences for operating outside of it, and you control actual government policy no matter what party holds formal power. Ergo the extreme, bipartisan reaction to Trump, whose policies are the exact kind of stuff boomers bored a generation of millennial children with over dinner tables but yet which seem to be absolute anathema to the Atlanticist political class....

Warlord then runs through the short list of countries betrayed by the Deep State Regime within (or without):  Georgia, Moldova, Romania, England, France, and the USA.

...So the real question I have here, and which I pose to you, dear readers, is this: What the hell exactly is an ostensible democracy where, very explicitly and very openly, you cannot change the policy of the government by voting - and God help you if you try?...

If it's really that bleak, you'll know in the next 12 months or so.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

We exchanged some comments about this very matter back on one of your May 5 posts. You took the position that voting could bring about change to the permanent government, aka, continuity of government. I hope you are correct but I still think voting will require some sort of intervening storm to assist ballot driven restoration of government by the people and for the people. Mark78