As a right-wing person, I have always supported the institutions of the UK: the police; the judiciary; the government and the royal family. I felt that these instiutions were part of what made our country Great. These institutions have a legacy dating back hundreds of years which meant that they were ‘fit for purpose’. I grew up with the understanding that these institutions were the envy of the world.
However, I now find myself to be a member of the ‘Dissident Right’ – those right-wingers who are not represented by the mainstream political parties. The reasons for my transition away from the mainstream can be found spread across every piece I have written for this Blog. In short: government that is no longer sovereign; growing authoritarianism in our institutions; increasing corruption; growing intolerance of alternative opinions; ever increasing levels of deceipt, dishonesty and hypocrisy. I haven’t changed: my principles remain the same. If I have changed in any way it is only that I can now perceive the contempt the authorities have for us.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/intolerance-remain-silent-or-be-branded-extremist
As a member of the Dissident Right, I wasn’t sure how to react when the Queen died last week. Yes, I no longer have any faith in the institutions that govern us but was that any fault of the Queen? Could the Queen have done anything to prevent the collapse of our culture and our democracy? Maybe, that would have been outside of her remit. However, my suspicions about the royal family were raised in 2020 when I became aware of Charles’ involvement with the WEF.
Was Charles’ support of The Great Reset shared by the Queen? Total control of the masses via either Biosecurity or the Green Agenda is going to benefit all of The Elites so it could be argued that the Queen would support something that would benefit her. Alternatively, it could be argued that the Queen is a traditionalist and would never support something that would overthrow hundreds of years of tradition. It’s hard to glean the motives of the enigma that was QE2.
I certainly wasn’t going to gloat about her death – I leave that kind of crassness to the Left – but I couldn’t find it within me to be terribly sad.
In the end I felt the right reaction was to treat the Queen’s death as I would the death of an old Film Star whose films I had enjoyed back in the day. Both the Film Star and the Monarch are symbols of a bygone era. The Queen was a link to a better time when the country did not suffer from the failings that I have listed and, for that reason, I can understand why some people would be upset about her passing. In some ways, the death of the Queen is an analogy for the death of Britain. There will never be another QE2 and Britain will never be what it was in 1952.
In this context of what I have described above, I saw this meme:
I had seen versions of this meme before but this time, struggling as I was to feel any emotion for the Queen’s passing, it struck a deeper chord. We all know that those on the Left have performed a 180 degree about-turn in their thinking in recent years and are now slavish followers of The Establishment. However, this time it occurred to me that, in recent years, I had made a similar journey in the opposite direction. I am now an anti-establishmentist: I no longer trust Big Pharma; I am vehemently against the West’s elongation of the Ukraine war via financial and military aid; and I abhore the impact that Mega Corporations are having on our society.
I have effectively changed places with those crazy Leftists that I have despised all my life. How weird is that? And the other weird thing is that I still despise those crazy Leftists that now adhere to everything I once adhered to: getting your experimental jabs; trusting that we – The West – are always the good guys in wars and accepting that the ‘survival of the fittest’ ethos of a free market economy would lead to a small number of big companies riding roughshod over their smaller competitors.
I have lost faith in the institutions of this country. What I haven’t lost faith in are marriage; family; morality; fairness, ethics and free speech. And these principles continue to differentiate me from crazed Leftists. (In fact, free speech is another issue that crazy Leftists have changed position on in recent years: they used to pride themselves on speaking ‘truth to power’, now they do everything they can to stop anyone with an opposing opinion from doing the same thing).
It seems that the lurch to authoritarianism by our institutions – and those unelected bodies that guide our institutions – that has appalled me so much over the last 5 years has been very appealing to Leftists since Leftists have always been attracted to ‘Big Government’, hence, their ever-present flirtations with tyrannical forms of government such as Socialism, Communism and Fascism.
We are a society in flux. The Left and the Right have changed places. The Left are now thoroughly aligned with The Establishment and The Right are now the anti-establishmentists. Maybe that is why the Joe Biden and many other US Leftists have been going to such lengths, in recent weeks, to demonise MAGA Republicans.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/joe-bidens-this-is-not-normal-speech
The Left are used to those on the Right doing what they are told because the Right tend to be quite compliant. I suspect there are large sections of the Right that are no longer so compliant in the face of repeated assaults on liberties won over the course of hundreds of years.
We have a situation where those people of a conservative, or freedom seeking, mindset are increasingly horrified by the anti-democratic actions of their governments. And how are those governments responding to such criticism? By doubling down on their authoritarianism: we’ve seen it in the US where anyone espousing traditional values is labelled by the authorities as ‘white supremicists‘
We saw Trudeau’s Canada seizing the assets of the truckers who had the temerity to protest Trudeau’s vaxx mandates (and imprisoning, without bail, the organisers of the protest). We’ve seen Dutch authorities take steps to put Dutch farmers out of business and then shoot at those farmers who object.
We can see that fascism comes slowly, then very suddenly. We’re at the ‘suddenly’ stage and I believe that the friction between governments and their peoples is only going to get worse and the Freedom Fighters will be comprised of those who object to the tyranny that is being forced on us by shadowy figures who have subverted the institutions of many Western countries. The Left, meanwhile, will support the whole thing: censorship; digital IDs; CBDCs; carbon credits and Social Credit system.
Atticus Fox 