WHY IS THE LEFT SURGING RIGHT?

The two main regime change antagonist nations, or rather their elites, are surging rightward.

The Democrats in the USA are now to the right of the notorious George W Bush administration. Biden and Harris are both right-wing lock-em up and fight-the-foreign-enemy advocates. Lurking in the background is the Hillary Harridan spitting feathers and longing to start a war with Russia.

In the UK Jeremy Corbyn has been smeared and virtually tarred and feathered for deigning to be a true socialist and oppose a terrorist regime in Israel. His movement of idealistic young and old has been shattered and he consigned to the outer darkness of elite political life. The new leadership of the bank-loving, regime change-loving Labour Party now want to eject him altogether and send him into political exile.

What happened to these two parties which once had integrity?

In America the Democrats have become ever more tied to and associated with the prime benefactors of constant regime change wars who donate millions to them.

In Britain the Blairite faction of the Labour Party has finally succeeded in wresting back power form the left by the dirtiest campaign of traitorous internecine activity ever seen in British politics.

What is it all about? Yes, the easy answer is money... and I agree. But I suspect there is more to it than that, though money... and power, are the key operative words in all this.

Politicians, especially in the USA know money is an indispensable factor in winning power and retaining it. In the UK it isn’t the primary motivating force except in a minority of cases. At least it isn’t the primary driving force as it is in the USA. That falls to power, winning it and retaining it.

Apart from money then, what is it that is driving the left rightwards and has been for some time now?

It is something the elite left shares with the elite right in both the U.S. and UK.

It is the knowledge that they are losing power to the rising nations of the east.

Local politics is enough for most politicians you might think. But how about for those at the top of their parties, the elitist of the elites?

Both the U.S. and UK have long traditions of considering themselves primary interventionist forces across the world.

We all know of the British Empire and its extent. This was the era when British political elites first became addicted to power. And the money that flowed into the coffers of Britain’s corporate elite kept them much appreciated. They retained a grip on much of the world for many years until it was eventually loosened. But the concept of Britain’s primary interventionist role in the world lived on until today.

The interventionist attitude of the U.S. elites will be well known to all. No other nation with the exception of the UK has such a fixed patrician attitude of superiority and self-awarded duty to correct and amend the rest of the world to its notions of correct conduct and administrative systems.

The elites of both the UK and USA see their power slipping away.

China has been rising fast while Britain and America have been fading and struggling to generate conditions that would let them compete. This latter was a thankless and ultimately fruitless task. China will continue to rise as the economies of the others will fall... the process has been speeded even further due to the corona virus pandemic. The expansion of Chinese trading potential with the belt and road initiative is unstoppable.

But the elites of Britain and America feel compelled to do all they can at the very least, even if it is a hopeless quest, to weaken China in any way they can, to act as spoilers in every possible way. What other choice do they have? The other choice is acceptance that their long-held patrician control over the world will end and in the not too distant future. This inevitable consequence they simply cannot tolerate. Therefore they are fighting tooth and nail doing everything in their power to at least stave off the day.

The pacifist left has become the warmongering right in both the U.S. and UK. Their loins are girded for the ultimate fight. The very last world war.

Power junkies across the West see the loss of their fix as an existential threat beyond all others.

To lose the extreme satisfaction of being lords of the Earth with all those “noble” traditions lost is abominable to them. (That’s right, they don’t think of genocide, slavery, the Opium Wars and colonialism enforced at gunpoint AT ALL in this context).

With the American elite the desire to shape the rest of the world in their nation’s image is also combined with Christian evangelism. This is an extremely toxic mix when it comes to the context of the end times and Armageddon which a significant number among them wish to “bring on”.

So there we have it. yes, money has much to do with it. But power much more.

This desire to retain power and the adrenaline rush that goes with being the elites of the elite, the creme de la creme, puts all other thoughts out of mind. War becomes the inevitable consequence of the ultimate aggression based on fear that permeates their minds.

And thus the (so-called) left now surges to the right.