{"id":1453611,"date":"2024-01-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1453611"},"modified":"2024-01-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T17:00:00","slug":"davos-dictators-the-real-threats-to-our-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/davos-dictators-the-real-threats-to-our-democracy\/1453611\/","title":{"rendered":"Davos, Dictators, & The Real “Threats To Our Democracy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Davos, Dictators, & The Real “Threats To Our Democracy”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Laura Hollis via The Epoch Times,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Republican presidential candidate (and now presumptive nominee) Donald Trump won the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary in the past week, breaking records in both contests.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Iowa, Trump received an unprecedented 51 percent of votes cast\u2014more than 30 percentage points ahead of the runner-up, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (who has since left the race and endorsed Trump).<\/p>\n

In New Hampshire, Trump received a record 175,000-plus votes and beat former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley by 12-plus percentage points.<\/p>\n

Predictably, the American Left is freaking out. <\/strong><\/p>\n

For months, their talking heads have been warning that Trump\u2019s election will usher in a literal dictatorship. As I wrote last week, the baseless accusations are cast at both President Trump and the Americans supporting him. Democrats are ratcheting up this polarizing tactic, which they\u2019ve used for years. In 2008, Barack Obama characterized Americans who opposed his candidacy for president as \u201cbitter\u201d people \u201cclinging\u201d to their \u201cguns or religion or antipathy to people who aren\u2019t like them.\u201d During her 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton declared Trump supporters to be a \u201cbasket of deplorables.\u201d In 2024, Democrats are accusing Trump voters of wanting authoritarianism and fascism.<\/p>\n

This latest steaming pile of propaganda is inexcusably ignorant. Or perhaps it is yet another instance of projection.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Americans who plan to vote for President Trump are not supporting him because they prefer his<\/em> dictatorial inclinations to the other guy\u2019s, but because they want someone in charge of the executive branch who does not<\/em> see the government\u2019s role as controlling every aspect of their lives.<\/p>\n

This stands in stark contrast to the Democratic Party\u2019s efforts to regulate entire industries out of existence, or the mad, anti-liberty, anti-human fever dreams of the globalists on display at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.<\/p>\n

In 2014, WEF speaker Yuval Harari informed a TEDx event audience that human rights don\u2019t really exist; they are \u201clike heaven or like God\u2014just a fictional story we\u2019ve invented and spread around.\u201d At the 2022 WEF meeting, Alibaba President J. Michael Evans touted a developing \u201cindividual carbon footprint tracker\u201d that would monitor where you travel, how you travel, what you eat and what you read on the internet. And the WEF\u2019s 2016 predictions for 2030\u2014including having to pay fines for emitting carbon dioxide (does that include exhaling?), restrictions on meat consumption and the end of private property (\u201cYou\u2019ll own nothing and you\u2019ll be happy\u201d)\u2014are infamous.<\/p>\n

Americans who support President Trump understand that this country enjoys the prosperity it does, not<\/em> because the \u201cright\u201d people control everything, but because no one does.<\/p>\n

The more control one person or a small cadre of people have\u2014politically or economically\u2014the greater the risks to everyone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Consider: If one company\u2019s leadership makes a catastrophically bad decision, that company may fail. But in a free, entrepreneurially capitalist country, other companies will be available to provide the goods and services that the failed company can no longer produce. The risk of error is borne by a relative few.<\/p>\n

However, if those making a catastrophically wrong decision are in control of an entire industry or an entire economy, then the whole system can collapse, with devastating consequences for millions\u2014tens of millions\u2014of people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

History is replete with examples. The former Soviet Union collapsed politically because its centrally planned economy suffered disaster after disaster. Government takeover of the Venezuelan economy destroyed that once-prosperous country, plunging its residents into abject poverty. When the president of Sri Lanka banned nitrogen-based fertilizer, the country\u2019s agricultural sector collapsed, as did its exports, leaving Sri Lankans without adequate food, fuel, or oil to heat their homes.<\/p>\n

Here in the United States, we have witnessed the nasty consequences of plenty of government policy failures: the health risks of COVID-19 shots; the spectacular failure of wind power in Texas during the 2021 winter storm; the inability of electric vehicles to start in the bitter temperatures across the northern U.S. two weeks ago; California\u2019s water shortages and the struggling capacity of its electrical grid.<\/p>\n

Egotists like WEF founder Klaus Schwab and his God-complex, like-minded cronies across the globe never consider that they could be wrong about anything.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But they are always<\/em> wrong about something.<\/p>\n

Trump voters do not want a dictator; they do not want an imperial presidency at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They want a president who understands that free and independent businesses operating in a minimally regulated environment are the lifeblood of American prosperity. They recognize that an executive branch that refuses to enforce federal laws is failing in its primary constitutional obligations to the American public. They understand that a justice system that picks and chooses whom to prosecute based upon their race, ethnicity, or political belief is no justice at all. They are tired of inflation caused by misguided energy, trade, and environmental policies. They are tired of our veterans suffering and dying with their physical and mental health needs unmet; tired of homeless people living in the streets; tired of open borders, of tens of thousands of Americans dying of fentanyl overdoses, and tired of unpunished crime, all while hundreds of billions of our hard-earned tax dollars get laundered through foreign wars into the pockets of multinational defense contractors, corruptocrat politicians, and warmongering toadies who never saw a foreign conflict they didn\u2019t want to exploit.<\/p>\n

These Americans reject the globalist overlords pushing their anti-human philosophies down everyone\u2019s throats, and they fear being enslaved by governments infiltrated by mindless drones in thrall to the latest apocalyptic power grab.<\/p>\n

The press and the Left can hand-wave and hyperventilate all they want about \u201cthreats to our democracy.\u201d But American voters see where the threats of authoritarianism truly lie, and it isn\u2019t with Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n

*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ZeroHedge<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 01\/27\/2024 – 07:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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