The politician is an animal that believes that voters deposit the envelope in the ballot box with the evolution of the national gross domestic product in mind. They don’t.
First of all, most voters vote with their bellies, not their heads. I’m not trying to be judgemental, it’s simply a factual comment. And secondly, ordinary people are not moved at all by the macro data of the national economy, but by what is or is not in their fridge, the cut the government takes from our pockets via taxes, and the evolution of their paycheck over time. A traffic ticket, an attempted robbery at the hands of an illegal immigrant, an absurd green regulation that bans plastic straws, or some stupid prohibition from any local mayor that affects the normal life of the people in town is more critical for the vote than the long spreadsheets with gigantic graphs that politicians toss around. (READ MORE: Will the Sun Shine Again in the Netherlands?)
And that is all I have to say about the results of the European elections.
Okay. I’ll say something else.
The damn plastic bottle caps. A few weeks before the elections, we Europeans began to notice that the caps on bottles, for example, water bottles, can no longer be removed, because a small tab attaches them to the container. So if you want to drink from the bottle, you have to do it by pressing your nose against the sharp edge of the cap. At first, I thought that all the plastic bottle manufacturers had become assholes. But then I said: Could it be an EU thing? And indeed it is. It’s a new regulation recently passed in the European Parliament to save the planet that doesn’t save the planet or reduce plastic or anything, but in return has given me serious nose wounds. Me and millions of other voters. That’s the kind of thing you have in mind when you go to vote.
All this green European legislation is being carried out indiscriminately through the moderate conservatives of the European People’s Party, i.e. Ursula von der Leyen, and the Socialists, always allied with the Greens, who up until last Sunday had excessive power in the Brussels House of Representatives. Von der Leyen is German, like Merkel, a Social Democrat like Merkel, and exhibits incredibly stupid approaches to policy, like Merkel.
Although she is supposed to lead the European right, von der Leyen has always wanted to be more ecologist than the Greens, more socialist on taxation than the European Socialist Party, and more demagogic and reckless than the Communists on immigration, where she has followed the same line as ill-fated Angela Merkel did when she emitted her famous peace cry “Welcome refugees!” Now the party that wants to put an end to illegal immigration in Germany, AfD, has obtained the best results in its history in a European election and has become the second political force. (READ MORE: A Message From Europe)
Most people would see this as a cause-and-effect relationship. But von der Leyen is not “most people.” In fact, instead of seeking alliances with the new emerging right-wingers (anti-immigration, anti-environmentalist, anti-globalist, anti-woke, and pro-national sovereignty) who have multiplied their presence all over Europe, the first thing she has done to save her position as president of the European Commission is to offer a grand alliance to the Socialists. God save America from conservative politicians like that.
However, I am happy. The new right (all the idiots parrot “extreme right” but I suspect it’s because they have never seen a right-wing extremist up close in their lives, I see extreme left-wing types on a daily basis — I have fistfuls of them acting as ministers in my country’s government) has won the elections in France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Belgium. And I am going to give you a quick something to reflect upon: Do you know which countries are suffering the most from the EU’s suicidal migration policy? Exactly. (READ MORE: Europe: With Friends Like These …)
This has only just begun. Europeans have voted with their bellies because they can’t stand any more idiotic regulations on their lifestyle — no more green taxes, no more obligation to use some damn electric gadget on wheels, no more No-Go Zone neighborhoods in major capitals, governed by Sharia law, where it’s not that they can’t go for a walk with their families, but where the police can’t even enter.
Indeed, the Europeans have had enough of it. And von der Leyen and her friends of the “moderate, friendly and smiling right” are still not aware of it. So soon the same will happen all over Europe just like in France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Belgium in these last elections.
I’ll bet you a bottle cap it will!
