For reasons that are hard to fathom, the overwhelming majority of Scandinavians and most other Europeans regard the Democrats in the US as the pleasant, civilised, kind-hearted and peace-loving – in contrast to the Republicans, who are portrayed in the media as despicable, far-right, racist, quasi-fascist and warmongering.
There can therefore be no doubt as to whom Europeans should support and cheer on, and opposing views are given no space in the state-aligned media.
Dissent thrives in alternative online media, whose stories are never reported by DR. It was once called Statsradiofonien. That name should have been retained, for DR is the tireless servant of the deep state. Journalists are free to criticise politicians, political parties, influencers, bishops and church officials, but they will not touch the power structure itself.
That is why Danes and other Europeans find it natural to sympathise with another statist (state-loving) movement on the other side of the Atlantic in the form of the Democratic Party. The Democrats are the good guys, and the Republicans are the bad guys. That is all one needs to know to understand American politics.
I am therefore sorry to have to refer to a couple of recent opinion polls amongst Democratic voters. One was carried out in September by a group calling itself the Centre for Strategic Politics, and the results are enough to cause sleepless nights. Among Democratic voters, 87 per cent would view it favourably if Trump were convicted in an impeachment trial and removed from the presidency. A majority of 59 per cent would welcome a military coup against Trump. As many as 29 per cent would be pleased if the president were assassinated.
Whatever one might say about ‘moderate’ Democrats (of whom there are very few), it is thus clear that the party as such has become radicalised in an extremely short space of time, and that most of its voters are prepared to reject democracy, provided they can get rid of the object of their hatred.
But where does this anti-democratic shift to the left come from?
The short answer is: from the universities, where professors – instead of imparting knowledge to students – have filled them with the ideology that everything in history and society can be explained by the dichotomy: the oppressors versus the oppressed. Who the oppressors and the oppressed are may change depending on the circumstances, but they will always exist and always serve as the political compass.
Attending an American university is tantamount to being brainwashed by radical professors, and according to another opinion poll among American university students, the results are clear: when faced with a speaker whose views one does not share, 69 per cent believe one has the right to drown them out with shouts. A significant proportion of students – namely 34 per cent – think it is acceptable to resort to violence to prevent a political opponent from having their say.
What we are witnessing is the death of politics in the traditional sense.
Once upon a time, the political process meant accepting the opponent’s right to express themselves and trying to counter them with arguments.
But that was then. We now live in a reality where the left has no arguments, but is all the more determined to retain power.
At any cost and by any means.
