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https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/02/15/jd-vance-has-signed-the-death-warrant-of-the-status-quo/
Vance ended by posing a pretty radical question to Europe’s rulers: have you ever considered… trusting the masses? ‘We shouldn’t be afraid of our people even when they express views that disagree with their leadership’, he said. ‘To believe in democracy is to understand that each of our citizens has wisdom and has a voice.’ People have wisdom. Wow. It is a testament to the anti-democratic turn of our times that it feels balls-out revolutionary to hear a world leader express such a simple, true idea. After years of watching Europe’s little people be branded ‘low-information’, ‘xenophobes’, ‘gammon’ and ‘idiots’ by a ruling class that thinks it has a monopoly on reason, it feels good to hear someone with power express that old idea that modernity was built on: people are wise, people are good, give them a shot.
Vance ended by posing a pretty radical question to Europe’s rulers: have you ever considered… trusting the masses? ‘We shouldn’t be afraid of our people even when they express views that disagree with their leadership’, he said. ‘To believe in democracy is to understand that each of our citizens has wisdom and has a voice.’ People have wisdom. Wow. It is a testament to the anti-democratic turn of our times that it feels balls-out revolutionary to hear a world leader express such a simple, true idea. After years of watching Europe’s little people be branded ‘low-information’, ‘xenophobes’, ‘gammon’ and ‘idiots’ by a ruling class that thinks it has a monopoly on reason, it feels good to hear someone with power express that old idea that modernity was built on: people are wise, people are good, give them a shot.