In “Zero Hour,” Glenn Beck Thoughts on the world situation James PoulosHe explains that it is natural for people to feel resentment towards the ruling class.
People are tired of the elite ruling class, he says, but today’s elites are “so arrogant, and they think they can overthrow the ruling class because they have AI on their side.” [the country] And create a utopia. And I think they’re all in favor.”
2024 promises to be a crucial year for politics around the world, from the EU parliamentary elections to the UK general election and the Trump vs. Biden rematch. People are angry with the establishment and desperate for change. Will populist sentiment triumph or will the establishment win?
So far, voters seem ready for change. The EU elections saw a landslide victory for the populist right. In France, voters are abandoning the political center in favor of a far-right or far-left government. And in the UK, the center-right Conservative Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, faced an embarrassing defeat, signaling the decline of center-liberal conservatism.
But despite Biden’s plummeting approval ratings and farmers’ revolts across Europe, politicians are refusing to make any change.
“I’ve never seen a political cycle where people say, ‘Ouch, that hurts,’ and politicians say, ‘Oh, great, you want more? We’re not going to do that,'” Beck said. “It doesn’t make sense.”
Poulos agreed: “For many Americans, it’s a cognitive dissonance, because on the one hand we have a government that is totally out of control, that is globalizing itself, weaponizing technology against its own people, and trampling on our Constitution. And yet on the world stage, we seem weaker than we’ve ever been.”
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