Globalism Teetering?

J.J. Sefton:

The rioting in France and the bubbling up unrest in Sweden are getting either very little to no attention in the Leftist house organ media, or otherwise distorted as to the underlying causes. 

In the wake of French prime minister Emanuel Macron's decision to implement a so-called carbon tax that would essentially make gasoline an unaffordable luxury, the citizenry have had enough and have taken to the streets. 

The question is, since France and Europe in general (and this is an opinion based on no real hard evidence) are not necessarily "car cultures" as is the USA, and since (again just my assumption) that the French people are more or less convinced that so-called "climate change" is a clear and present danger, then what the hell is really going on here? 

What is really important to note, here, is THE GOVERNMENT IS SHOWING NO SIGN OF BACKING DOWN!

Why is it so important to the Government that they make driving all but unaffordable?

The government in California is, inch by inch, taking the same steps. Last year, the California government took the same kind of step, increasing the price 30 cents per gallon.

Here in the Los Angeles area, we have some Afternoon Drive Talk Shows Hosts named John and Ken. These two have made it a point to talk about the Gas Tax as much as it deserves to be discusses, which is just about ad nauseum.

But they also have pointed out something else.

There are neighborhoods in Los Angeles which have long been serviced in and out by four-lane roads. Some of these roads are being DECREASED IN SIZE.

Think about it, California's population is being increased by the Government's strict policy of encouraging illegal immigration, AND AT THE SAME TIME, California is decreasing roads sizes, and increasing Gas Taxes.

Now, let's ponder again the idea that THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT IS NOT BACKING DOWN.

Why is it these Fascist Left governments are attempting to eliminate the physical autonomy of their citizens? 

Now, back to J.J. Sefton:

And then, as if to underscore the conclusion I am about to draw, Sweden has seen migrant centers go up in flames with the approach of national elections that have real ramifications for the future of that nation that by all appearances is all but subsumed by the self-inflicted national poisoning of Muslim immigration. 

Again, here is a society that since the end of the Second World War (in which it remained neutral and was untouched, except for making a handsome profit from trade with Hitler) has gone out of its way to present itself as some sort of model to the world of openness, tolerance and acceptance - to the point where the once heavily Jewish community of Malmo has been utterly terrorized by Muslims, but to point this out will bring the wrath of the government down on your head. 

Again, just as with the character of the French people vis a vis socialism and (since '45) general American antipathy, what's really going on in Sweden? The latter I think is pretty clear. But in France, is this just about the money or has the failure of the socialist model, particularly in terms of immigration policy going back to the late 1950s/early 1960s from its former Arab and Middle Eastern colonies caused the citizenry to say enough of this? 

Times change, people change and attitudes change. The question is is the reality of what is going on right in front of their faces on a daily basis enough to cause a wholesale sea change in attitudes or will the sort of societal/social cognitive dissonance continue? 

Look, I get it. The French hate us. But just as the late great Golda Meir quipped about the prospects for peace between Arabs and Israelis, France will perhaps rise again when they hate themselves less than they hate us (or something like that).

AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

Johnny U says:

We see the third leg of my theoretical stool conflating appropriately with current events. Globalist communism, Islam and money/debt are three school girls skipping to the dance with AK-47s slung over their shoulders. Each one is presented as benign yet each is its own incredible evil. 

Where can they dovetail in peace once the debt leg breaks?

Italy, the EU, and the Fall of the Roman Empire

The EU leadership is trying to contain a crisis that is emerging at increasing speed: this challenge comprises the rise of contumacious states (i.e. the UK, Poland, Hungary and Italy), or of defiant, historic ‘cultural blocs’ (i.e. Catalonia) – all of whom are explicitly disenchanted with the notion of some coerced convergence towards a uniform EU-administered ‘order’, with its austere monetary ‘disciplines’. 

They even dismiss the EU’s claim to be, somehow, a part of a greater civilizational order of moral values. If, in the post-war era, the EU represented an attempt to escape the Anglo-American hegemony, these new defiant blocks of ‘cultural resurgence’ which seek to situate themselves as interdependent, sovereign ‘spaces’ are, in their turn, an attempt to escape another type of hegemony: that of an EU administrative ‘uniformity’. 

To exit this particular European order (which it originally was hoped, would differ from the Anglo-Americanimperii), the EU nevertheless was forced to lean on the latter’s archetypal construct of ‘liberty’ as empire’s justification (now metamorphosed into the EU’s ‘four freedoms’) on which the EU strict ‘uniformities’ (the ‘level-playing-field’, regulation in all aspects of life, tax and economic harmonization) have been hung. 

The European ‘project’ has become seen, as it were, as something that hollows out distinct and ancient ‘ways-of-being’.

BUT THE TRUTH IS, THEY'LL STOP AT NOTHING TO KILL US:

Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Apple Will Not Permit ‘Hate Speech’ (as Defined by the Left) – “Because It’s the Right Thing To Do!”