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Talk:Conservative of the Year 2025 (view source)
Revision as of 17:52, December 21, 2025
, 17:52, December 21, 2025→On leadership
The whole thing is worth reading. [https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/our-modern-spectacle] Excerpt:
The whole thing is worth reading. [https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/our-modern-spectacle] Excerpt:
:''"But the current era’s crop of ‘leaders’ have dropped all pretexts of charm and magnetism to become de facto cardboard cutouts for corporate interests and [[oligarchic]] influence—mouth pieces and empty voice boxes merely transcribing manifestos on behalf of their paymasters....Today, the hyper-connected [[financial]]ized [[globalism]] of our age has created a vast matrix of manipulation that has normalized the dilution of both [[meritocracy]] and genuine [[political]] and [[democratic]] processes to the point where modern leaders are no longer elected by the dint of their personal [[courage]], magnetism, or accomplishments, but rather selected by corporate special interests on the basis of their servility."''
:''"But the current era’s crop of ‘leaders’ have dropped all pretexts of charm and magnetism to become de facto cardboard cutouts for corporate interests and [[oligarchic]] influence—mouth pieces and empty voice boxes merely transcribing manifestos on behalf of their paymasters....Today, the hyper-connected [[financial]]ized [[globalism]] of our age has created a vast matrix of manipulation that has normalized the dilution of both [[meritocracy]] and genuine [[political]] and [[democratic]] processes to the point where modern leaders are no longer elected by the dint of their personal [[courage]], magnetism, or accomplishments, but rather selected by corporate special interests on the basis of their servility."''
The point is, we should be wary of creating the impression some foreign leaders are "democratically elected" by a foreign "conservative populist" movement. "Democracy" doesn't work anymore. Least of all, as has been proven with the [[Biden Putsch]], in the [[United States]]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Recovering Republican]]</sup> 12:52, December 21, 2025 (EST)