The scant news that arrived from the vanished empire where these leftists governed fed the fear. Many people thought they had to confront them and decided to support even more aggressive leaders, but in favor of traditions. They then chose individuals with great destructive capacity; personally cowardly, but aggressive and abusive; deeply desirous of power and wealth, who came accompanied by vile subjects, because no one else could stand them for long.
On that occasion, this happened in the center of the world, which was already in clear decline. The first to rise to power, brash and blustering, fortunately did not have military capability to affect other countries. That old liberalism, which is nothing more than a combination of democracy, market, and science, is once again threatened by two totalitarian visions, from the left and the right.
"But there was someone who admired him, learned from him, and managed to lead a country that did have a powerful military machine," writes the author. When this second character threatened to invade weaker neighbors, an international conference was organized to prevent a widespread war. Regulations grew, activists entrenched themselves in public budgets, and a large group of losers emerged, the cannon fodder of bullies.
Both ideologies, the identity-based (woke) and the pseudo-libertarian (Trump), are aberrations of the system that for more than half a century allowed us the greatest advancement in the history of humanity. However, at that time, there was a reserve elsewhere that ultimately managed to tilt the balance in favor of old liberalism and stop the two totalitarian threats, from the left and the right.
The scant news that reaches from the spaces they have occupied fuels fear. Many people think they need to confront them and have decided to support even more aggressive leaders that claim to favor traditions.
Today, however, it does not seem that such a reserve exists to confront them. It is worth remembering that what we see today did not start yesterday, but already 15 years ago. The author mentions that the best-known is Donald Trump, but he has many "doubles" in America, Asia, and Europe. These leaders come to power supported by the naive who believe they pose no risk, but rather salvation against the great threat that is "the left."
Since 2009, democracies began to shift towards populism, markets started to close, and science has been invaded by the identity, "anti-capitalist" and alarmist agenda. Some time ago, in the uncertainty caused by the rise of mass media, concern grew over the rise of labor movements, led by leftists who also had an aggressive rhetoric against traditions. The rest, as they say, is history.
Now, in the uncertainty provoked by the internet and social networks, there has been a general concern over the rise of groups led by leftists who also have aggressive rhetoric against traditions. In it, what remained of the old leading country, the United Kingdom, accepted to "throw under the bus" President Benes of Czechoslovakia, who was willing to confront that aggressive country, Germany, in war. For now, I still think we are halfway, although it is impossible for me to identify yet the destination we are heading to. In the United States, this is called "woke ideology." Returning to that path, if at all possible, will require a lot of time. While Chamberlain happily assured that he had achieved peace, the chancellors of Germany and the Soviet Union were negotiating the pact that would be called Molotov-Ribbentrop, in which they promised not to attack each other but divided Poland and the Baltic countries, which they would invade shortly after. Today, the same.
