In a year that sees so many democracies elect new governments from India to Great Britain, from Russia to the United States of America, we are seeing an increasing disillusionment with the democratic system global elites impose by the bomb. Many have died at the hands of democracies so that they can benefit from this system and yet is it not a system that encourages short term thinking and detaches us from our ancestors and our traditions?
Aleksandr Dugin has criticised Russia's democratic system as a simulacrum of the Western liberal system, when through a more Russian approach the general will of the people can be expressed, rather than relying on a simple tally of ballot papers on a particular day. Victorian mathematician and author of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, demonstrated mathematically that it is not possible to aggregate voter preferences. In the one country founded as a democracy, the United States, the social capital of shared values has been drastically eroded by partisan politics.
G K Chesterton argued that tradition was democracy for the dead. In other words, what our ancestors bequeathed us and believed in must still shape our governmental decisions whatever the mood of the moment. Too often the political parties posture as agents of change and try to achieve victory with manifestos containing lists of measures that will inevitably mean more legislation that changes the essence of the country.
The idea that a majority of votes or constituencies or Electoral College votes can determine the future course of a country, even if in violation of its past looks extremely reductive. It is as though we are all regarded as rational actors with preferences for government in the same way as consumers choose between different goods or services. It is surely rooted in a degraded understanding of a nation.
Democracy can only really be justified as a check upon excesses of power or corruption in power. Voting is a means of accountability, recognising the frailty of human nature and how as Lord Acton put it, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This though must be understood as a negative argument for democracy as a necessary safeguard, not as a commendation of the system as an ideal in itself.
And yet, in the revolutionary rhetoric of today, the "right" to vote is seen as a right to overthrow what came before and is closely allied to the rhetoric of feminism, sexual revolution, abortion rights and socialism. Democracy once a mere necessary check, amongst others, is now an ideology in itself. It has become such an ideological concept that neoconservatives can justify the invasion of sovereign nations and the killing of civilians to ensure this mere pragmatic safeguard, amongst other possible safeguards, can be imposed by military force. When countries might benefit from the restoration of monarchy, as in Afghanistan, the globalist powers for ideological reasons alone impose democracy instead that deepens tribal divisions.
As right-wing Republicans are recognising, their system works when it does work, not because it is simply a democracy, but because there are other institutions that protect the constitution too. They argue that the USA is a republic, not a democracy. That is well and good, but the USA has been the chief advocate of radical change through imposed democracy in other countries in which it really should not have a say. While on that side of the American political divide there is a healthy scepticism of foreign wars, that country has also produced an aggressively interventionist wing on the Right and Left - neoconservatives and liberal interventionists.
Perhaps the problem lies in America's abstract identity, where its rights do not rest so much in custom as in legal documents, primarily the constitution itself. An abstract basis of national identity means the USA is a strange creature - a propositional nation. This is what Revolutionary France aspired to be with its abstract "liberty, equality and fraternity". This required it to create a new year zero and to exterminate those connected to the ancien regime, aristocrats, peasants and nuns.
Just as the French revolution was linked to secret societies, so many of the Founding Fathers of America had such connections. And such secret societies were aiming at the destruction of the ancien regime - church and monarchy with their organic links to the peasantry. This agenda was indeed the agenda of the oligarchs, many of whom were merchants or connected to banking. And here is another fact about democracy, it fosters and empowers oligarchy, in particular the monied interest.
Democracy as in voting the rascals out, has a pragmatic benefit, but only when other institutions also form part of the fabric of the constitution, such as the monarchy, the church, the courts. If Russia had its absolute Orthodox Tsar, England had its King and the King's Peace that held the commonwealth together, was the common law - looking back to the past in terms of precedent and what came before and tempered by equity, protected by the Lord Chancellor.
Democracy implies not only that it is the best system, but that unique nations, each made up of a particular ethnos, must be forced into the same system. But each ethnos is unique, with its own solutions to the challenges of being a polis. Full representative democracy goes hand-in-hand with secularism, which also reduces each nation to the same colourless people. It is those unique cultural values that make an ethnos what it is - the ethics (same etymological root) of a people. Those ethics come from the spiritual life of each people.
If democracy is a tool of the oligarchic globalist elites, then does populism via the ballot box represent a way to win back the values of the particular people? To an extent yes. Trump and Brexit were populist victories against the oligarchs, or the swamp as Trump would put it. Nonetheless another election, especially if votes are tampered with, can lead to everything being reversed at the next election. Trump was ousted. Brexit was only reluctantly implemented by the Conservative Party in the UK and could be reversed by a Labour Government.
The only real solution is a transformation at a spiritual level. This is where monarchy, linked to the church is so important. As we have seen in England institutions can be subverted by liberals. Nonetheless, if institutions can be spiritually revived and connected again to higher meaning, the hierarchy of society will be back in its cosmological position. Then whether absolute monarchy or democracy the common weal will be in restored health. The real battle then is against the revolution in high places with its Luciferian agenda. This is what lies behind the globalist agenda and the way that democracies no longer respect their dead or the values that they have inherited.
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