Gold Switzerland: “You are ruled by political minorities, and you are preparing to send your children into the crucible of a nuclear apocalypse”

In its latest analysis, Gold Switzerland talks about the decline of dying Western democracies, which are essentially run by political minorities preparing to send your children into the crucible of a nuclear apocalypse.

He made this analysis in connection with the war in Ukraine and the high probability of it escalating into a global nuclear war. “Capitalism has been replaced by a version neo-feudalismdisguised as progress for a minority of 1-10% of the population,” Gold Switzerland aptly notes.

As for democracy, the proof is reduction of freedom people in the world led by an unloved or unelected minorityare the numbers, not the political preferences:

• For example, in France, Emmanuel Macron's ruling party received only 1/5 votes in the recent snap elections in the first round.
• At the same time, Germany is led by a three-party (traffic light) coalition, which gained only 30% of the vote in June, and according to the latest polls does not even reach 20%.
• In the US, more than 70% of Americans, regardless of party, acknowledged in a survey that Joe Biden mentally incapable of leading a nation.
• In Japan approval rating Prime Minister Kishida has 13% of the vote, with 9/10 of his party members voting against him.
• Meanwhile in Canada Justin Trudeau remains in the same position “coalition survival”despite an approval rating of 28%!

“Democracy” And “freedom” – words that once meant something to the framers of the US Constitution or the signatories of Europe's Maastricht Treaty – seem to have passed into the hands of leaders who openly ignore the will of the people, Gold Switzerland comments, as “democracy and freedom” – these are now just words, not real practice.

Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government. That’s because democracy doesn’t always produce the results you want, but it’s certainly better than dictatorship. And Alexis de Tocqueville, who was no fan of revolutionary violence, wandered around the United States before the Civil War and mused aloud about America’s bold experiment in individualism, wondering whether rule by the masses could defeat rule by a monarch.

In short, democracy may be fictitious, and the majority vote may be unrelated to individual preferences, but if we want democracy, we must be willing to accept the will of the majority of the people. This democratic consent, even with undesirable outcomes, is the price that both happy and unhappy voters are willing to pay in every election cycle to preserve the very democratic ideal that all citizens, left or right, claim to respect.

But what happens when those seeking power are unwilling to accept undesirable outcomes? What happens when their leaders and coalitions cling to power despite the blatant lack of majority support?

Is this democracy? Do the people today agree with their elected officials? – asks Gold Switzerland.

“Do people want to risk nuclear war for Ukraine? Does that make them undemocratic?

Do the fathers and mothers of France, Germany, the United States or even Kyiv want to send their children to a war chosen by those in power, who themselves would never risk going into the trenches?

Does this make people unpatriotic? Do people want more illegal immigration than their economy or watered-down culture can handle? Does that make people universally racist?

Do people want to see their currencies devalued so that their leaders can spend trillions to buy votes in the next election (without regard for the economic and therefore social destruction of the next generation)? Does this make people anti-capitalists?

Do people want to be led by people with less intellectual, historical, economic, or legal experience than the average college freshman? Does this make people elitist?

Do people really need the paid opinions of celebrities, many of whom know nothing about anything, to influence their votes? Does this make people unimaginable? “Populists?”

But what is far more frightening and disturbing is that war itself is also an extension of politics, and a world led by leaders who statistically do not represent the majority is now closer to war than any of us can deny.

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