The Trouble With Democracy

1 October 2024

We’ve all encountered this problem. We love the idea of free, open democracy when running our clubs, nations and planets, but there’s just one teeny-tiny problem with it, which is democracy.

That’s right, democracy is brilliant, apart from the democracy bit. Our dear friend John Kerry has special insight into this and sought to explain to his dear friends at the World Economic Forum just what a problem it is. The WEF just completed their Sustainable Development Impact Meetings from 23rd-27th September 2024, scheduled to coincide with the UN General Assembly.

John F. Kerry is a well known U.S. political figure, jetting here and there to save us all from the current boogeymen or “existential threat”. A few years ago it was “radical extremism” he was saving us all from. Now it is of course, the Climate Crisis™. His résumé on the WEF website under the “agenda authors” section explains…

On January 20, 2021, John F. Kerry was sworn in as our nation’s first Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and the first-ever Principal to sit on the National Security Council entirely dedicated to climate change. President Biden announced Kerry would have a seat at every table around the world as he combats the climate crisis to meet the existential threat that we face. In recent years, Kerry was the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s first ever Visiting Distinguished Statesman, following his four years as the 68th United States Secretary of State. As America’s top diplomat, he guided the Department’s strategy on nuclear nonproliferation, combating radical extremism, and the threat of climate change. His tenure was marked by the successful negotiation of the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris Climate Agreement.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/john-kerry/

Aren’t we lucky to have John Kerry fighting the good fight to remove the life-giving CO2 that keeps everything alive as he apparently sits at all our tables?

But he’s not just on an anti-life crusade, no no no. This man’s talents have no end. His vast experience and decades of politicking make him uniquely informed as to what’s wrong with the world. The trouble says John, is that people have a choice of who to listen to, and therefore what to believe. This is a problem for Democracy says John, because “building a consensus” is really hard now.

Yes that’s right. The trouble with democracy is in fact democracy. But don’t take my word for it. Heaven forbid I could be spreading “misinformation”. Here is John at the WEF Sustainable Tyranny Meeting explaining to his devoted audience…

Here is a transcript of that…

Kerry: And I think the dislike of and anguish over social media is just growing and growing and growing. And it’s part of our problem, particularly in democracies, in terms of building consensus around any issue. It’s really hard to govern today. You can’t, you know, there’s no, the referees we used to have to determine what’s a fact and what isn’t a fact, they’ve kind of been eviscerated to a certain degree. And people go and people self-select where they go for their news or for their information. And then you just get into a vicious cycle. So it’s really, really hard, much harder to build consensus today than at any time in the 45, 50 years I’ve been involved in this. And, you know, there’s a lot of discussion now about how you curb those entities in order to guarantee that you’re going to have, you know, some accountability on facts, etc. But, look, if people go to only one source, and the source they go to is sick, and has an agenda, and they’re putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just hammer it out of existence. So what we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern, by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change. Now, obviously, there are some people in our country who are prepared to implement change in other ways. And that’s really the main news.

WEF Stooge: Is there a question, really, if democracy can survive unregulated social media?

Kerry: I think democracies are very challenged right now and have not proven they can move fast enough or big enough to deal with the challenges that we are facing. And to me, that is part of what this race, this election is all about, will we break the fever in the United States?

After half a century of refining his political doublespeak he is still making the tiniest of efforts not to sound like an outright Thought Dictator, although obviously that is what this is and there’s not much of a veneer to scrape off to see it.

Given that Social Media is part of the public-private partnership of Government and Big Tech and the roots of the Silicon Valley companies that are behind it have very deep connections with the “Intelligence” departments of various States, the “dislike and anguish over social media” is not about the terrible effect it has had on young people, the predatory behaviour of the companies, ad networks, data-miners, AI trainers and privacy invasions. No they couldn’t care less about any of that. The “anguish” is that their tool has opened the door to a world where people are able to share their own ideas, create their own platforms and They have lost control.

The phrase “building a consensus” is on it’s face, a nonsense, because it is generally impossible to naturally arrive at a consensus on anything if it involves more than a handful of people. This in reality is actually fine, but not for John and his mates at the WEF, and so really what he means is making everyone agree with a single narrative.

The “referees” Kerry mentions that they used to be able to depend on to “determine what’s a fact and what isn’t a fact”, i.e. the legacy mainstream media and the highly centralised entertainment industry have been “eviscerated” by normal people who have had enough of trash being force-fed to them either go looking elsewhere or create their own outlets. This says Kerry, is a real problem. A “fever” actually according to him, with “sick” sources. The cure for this sickness and fever? Well ideally he’d love to just “hammer them out of existence”, but the pesky First Amendment is a “major block”. That goddamn free speech is just ruining all Kerry’s authoritarian plans and he’s having an extremely large sad about it.

You really have to laugh at these pathetic characters with their faux-concern and obvious desperation to cling to control.