Davos man is a fossil: reality is about to dethrone the elites

Davos Man is an increasingly disregarded fossil, dating from the Palaeolithic period of aspiring global social control. This year’s assembly of the Entitled at the World Economic Forum was the most subdued in the 54 years’ history of that circus. Even its theme was uncharacteristically defensive: “Rebuilding Trust.”

Some people might think that any exercise in rebuilding trust spearheaded by that poor man’s Bond villain Klaus Schwab, assisted by Ilham Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan and recent conqueror of Nagorno-Karabakh, Chinese premier Li Qiang, whose principal remit is whitewashing China’s Uyghur policy, and Al Gore, of the notorious convenient untruth of ice-core samples falsifying climate history, might not stand much chance of success among those with IQs above 30.

Jane Goodall, the expert on primates’ behaviour, was in attendance, presumably in a working capacity. One wonders what she made of the contribution by Alexander Soros, the “more political” heir of George Soros whose ironically named Open Society Foundations have spent billions on imposing woke ideology on formerly democratic institutions and communities. 

Soros fils, in a car-crash panel discussion that went viral online, showed himself to be the most inarticulate man on the planet. Anyone who can insert “you know, um” 79 times into a single sentence – not that his remarks could be marshalled into anything as disciplined as a sentence – may be a shoo-in for the Guinness Book of Records, but he is hardly to be classed as a great communicator. Soros is a clown, a trust fund baby who has inherited the throne of wokery and aspires to impose his worldview, at precisely the wrong time.

It is the wrong time because the developed world is about to emancipate itself from “trans” superstition, poverty-creating ESG and DEI nonsense, elites’ attempts to control electronic and other media, and the whole Net Zero insanity. At Davos, there was a palpable undercurrent of fear. There was an outsize elephant in the room and its name was Donald Trump. Most informed people consider there is a reasonable possibility of Trump being elected president of the United States, while recognising there are still some imponderables to be resolved.

But Davos Man is convinced of Trump’s inevitability, simply because it is what he most fears. The more pragmatic attendees were already preparing to shift ground. Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, told a horrified audience: “Take a step back, be honest.” (Has he no idea what Davos is about?) Trump, he said, “was kind of right about NATO, kind of right on immigration. He grew the economy quite well. Tax reform worked. He was right about some of China. He wasn’t wrong about some of these critical issues.”

By that stage, his hearers were trying to recall whether they had ever seen Jamie Dimon and Nigel Farage in the same room. A more deafening wake-up call came from Javier Milei, the newly elected president of Argentina, who, in a speech that has since resounded around the world, asked the Davos elites why they, the supposed champions of capitalism, had become marinated in socialism and all its virtue-signalling woke hypocrisy: “Social justice is not just.” Milei wanted to know why successful capitalists were penalised by higher taxes and pointed out that taxation is a coercive instrument. His message struck a chord with millions of people outside the Davos bubble: “Long live freedom, dammit!”

The Davos pantomime, more and more out of touch with public opinion each year, more and more sinister in its ambition to control the world population every year, was simply a side-bar to fast unrolling events in the real world. Milei is just the latest anti-Marxist leader to be elected. The correct definition is anti-Marxist, because the grotesque ideology known as “woke” is in fact cultural Marxism.

It is cultural Marxism that enables the coaxing of children into sexual confusion in schools, that disseminates Critical Race Theory – the ultimate “hate” speech – throughout the education system, that imposes a culture of intimidation in both public and private-sector organisations, where employees fear for their jobs if they speak the truth, that has turned higher education into an anti-knowledge travesty. And all this has been facilitated by those in government, in Britain, Europe and North America, of which the clowns at Davos are the elite exemplars.

Do we take sufficient cognizance of the fact that we live in a society in which a lie, amounting to absolute madness – the myth that human beings can change sex – is embedded in our statute book, taught as orthodoxy in our education system and given obeisance by all public bodies? We should ask ourselves the questions that future historians will ask. How was it possible that citizens of mature democracies with long traditions of freedom submitted to the rule of idiots who claimed there were 106 sexes? How could people espousing scientifically illiterate nonsense be permitted to govern tens of millions of sane citizens? Why did the populations not rise up and remove them?

The answer to that last question may imminently be accessible. The wind has shifted and the petty dictators now face a serious challenge. In the Netherlands, conventional wisdom held that prolonged negotiations to form a coalition government would disillusion the Dutch electorate with Geert Wilders, so that his support would melt away. The opposite has happened: the latest polls show that, if an election were held tomorrow, Wilders would win 49 seats out of the 150 in the lower house of the Dutch parliament.

In Germany, the rise of the AfD has caused its alarmed rivals seriously to consider banning the most popular political party in the country. Has Rishi Sunak, in his current existential predicament, considered resorting to such a measure by banning Labour? In Poland, the precarious coalition government of EU integrationist Donald Tusk has sent police into a television station and arrested two MPs in the protected environment of the presidential palace. That will not end well, as the large demonstrations against Tusk are beginning to indicate.

In France, it has become a given that Marine Le Pen will succeed Macron at the Élysée. The socialist coalition in Spain is on a life support system. Sweden is politically unrecognisable from the wet, welfare dependency culture, militarily neutral, it formerly was. Then there is the United States.

If Donald Trump wins the presidency for a second time, the global ramifications will be seismic. The American leftists know that and will go to any lengths to try to prevent it. All the democratic norms have been abandoned. In addition to the debauching of the legal system in an attempt to imprison Trump – which Alexander Soros claims is the only way of stopping him – naked censorship has been imposed. 

MSNBC refused to broadcast Trump’s victory speech in Iowa, on the grounds, as presenter Rachel Maddow explained, that “there is a cost to us, as a news organisation, of knowingly broadcasting untrue things”. Maddow is the most extreme example of Trump Derangement Syndrome, a real baying-at-the-moon crazy. Conservatives instantly responded to her claim that MSNBC must not broadcast “untrue things”, by showing a clip of Maddow, during the pandemic, informing viewers: “Now we know that the vaccines work well enough, that the virus stops with every vaccinated person.” Clinicians might take issue with that claim.

Censorship was a big concern at Davos (imposing it, not lifting it). A session on “Defending Truth” discussed measures to stop misinformation (e.g. “Trump is okay”) and replace it with truth (e.g. “Trump is the devil incarnate”), a major preoccupation of the EU.

But that ship has sailed. There is not a snowflake’s chance in Hell of the elites “regaining trust” with the masses. The elites, in every country of the developed world, as in Britain, are distrusted and despised. Politicians, judges, university professors, local government, civil servants, mainstream media – all the people and institutions that formerly were most respected and trusted – are automatically discredited. And resentment is highest in respect of the worst damage they have inflicted upon us: mass immigration.

Immigration has finally awakened the developed world to the peril in which it stands. The globalists cannot get enough population transfer: their ambition is to destroy all national cultures and to substitute a homogenous workforce with a global monoculture (this they term “diversity”, as part of the catalogue of lies with which they attempt to disguise their increasingly transparent intentions).

Rishi Sunak is the personification of globalism, to the point of caricature. His sympathies are with the forces of anti-cultural, globalist corporate socialism at Davos. While making clownish and ineffectual efforts to “stop the boats”, with his electoral fortunes dwindling daily, Sunak still stubbornly persists in enlarging legal immigration: last year he presided over a net inflow of 745,000. He could stop that at will; instead he uses “the boats” as a distraction, to divert attention from the damage he is inflicting on Britain.

Labour has shown it is committed to the cultural Marxist cause in the culture wars, a stance reaffirmed by Keir Starmer this week. The Tories will be annihilated at this year’s election; Labour will inherit power and pursue the same anti-national agenda. It will then fall to the electorate to remove Labour at the next general election. What will be left of Britain by then? It is to be feared that the evil legacy of Tony Blair will effectively have eliminated Britain, in any recognisable form.

The cause of this impending tragedy is the absurd attachment of British voters to the legacy parties. Reform UK is available, offering to pursue all the policies that mainstream Britain wants; but the defeatist perception that the first-past-the-post electoral system makes it impossible for Reform to win deters many from voting for it. The reality is that every vote for Reform counts as fully as a vote for Conservative or Labour: all that is necessary is for enough people to cast their votes for Reform and the psychological barrier will be broken.

The only person who can persuade the British electorate of that possibility, in the narrow window of opportunity between now and November, is Nigel Farage. The Tories are unelectable, Labour inspires little enthusiasm: all that is required is a leap of faith. Can Farage inspire that leap? Not if he spends his time campaigning for Donald Trump, instead of for the regeneration of Britain. Farage has a duty to lead the insurgency against those who have brought Britain to its present condition.

As Davos demonstrated, those who consider themselves both entitled and enlightened, who regard the world as a blank page on which they have the right to inscribe their absurd and destructive prescriptions – most notably Net Zero – are fools. Anyone who believes Net Zero is affordable is a moron; anyone who imagines it is necessary is an idiot. Yet the world, for the moment, is in the hands of those deluded, power-hungry maniacs. However, the writing is on the wall, with Davos Man now commanding as much credibility as Piltdown Man.

The priority for the next decade is to remove them from power, repeal their aggressive laws against free expression, end their censorship of media and reverse all the tyrannical impositions of the past 20 years. It is already happening in Argentina. It looks likely to happen in America, from next January. It is on the brink in Germany, France and the Netherlands. It would be tragic if post-Brexit Britain remained so much in thrall to the legacy two-party system as to miss the opportunity to emancipate itself this year too.

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