Episode 212: The secret of power in a democracy but is it good for us‪?‬ The Reason For Now

The secret of power in a democracy but is it good for us? What does this mean? Surely power to the people is a good thing? Really? In reality the more power to the people the more Marxist we become , the more politically correct and woke and the more homogeneous all groups have to become with any expression of difference especially one of advantage attacked with savage sanctimoniousnous usually by people who without the artificial mantle of authority would not even reach the lowest rung of the Richter scale of significance. And there is the problem. Power to the people is power to the rabble which is chaos and the rise by definition of those who wield the tools of authority with the most violence as people respond mostly to fear and it is either the most ambitious or the most resentful who will do this. The really thoughtful and considered people will not find natural inspiration in this and will revert to a position of defence rather than offence unless of extreme means and backed into a corner. Instead they will focus on their family leaving society to whirl further down the rabbit whole of self destruction.
Case in point is the labour party. Sir Kier Starmer is a QC and a sad example of a significant majority of judges. ie no personality or common sense or ability to understand the human element and at best applying the rules in a dry binary fashion. Of course there are occasions when this can be necessary and helpful but often it just leads to miscarriages of justice as they are swayed by the oratory skills of the competing barristers who seek to persuade the judge or jury in their favour. No wonder the average solicitor shudders at the thought of personally going to any court room.
As a politician he has no significant experience of being elected and has no idea how to appeal to the electorate. On the other hand Boris Johnson has personality , is likeable in a relatable mischievous fashion (even though he is self serving psychopath) which especially in difficult times people are warmed by, will unhesitatingly do whatever he thinks the electorate will like such as lockdowns, vaccines, travel curbs, PCR tests with all sorts of impressive names such as surge testing, sign up the UK to outlandishly restrictive green energy goals despite the fact that any contribution the UK makes is swamped a thousand fold by the damage from India China and soon Africa. He has managed to create a party to please everyone which of course in terms of anything useful and constructive is quite the opposite as the average person has no idea what is good for them and why the Nobel Prize winning psychologist Professor Malcom Thaler concluded that humans need to be ruled by libertarian paternalism. We also conclude that conspiracy theory or not ,and it is increasingly looking like the former ,that humanity will never return to normal and that this is as we have said for months the thin end of the wedge. What we now take for granted and was a luxury 50 years ago such as travel and multiple car ownership will return to the upper shelf of luxury as way of preserving the planets dwindling resources. Is this necessarily a bad thing? Families will no longer be split up by joyful travelling abroad to university, people will focus on their communities and get to know their own country and National Identity and pride will increase. Hopefully Harry and Meghan will be relegated to faint memories as casualties of excess wokeness and abandonment of duty for self service Duty is not universal it is specific.