FLASH
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The last few weeks have witnessed a growing political violence that is not at all common to the Western European political landscape.
The assassination of the Slovak Prime Minister Fico, which brought him to the edge of the grave, was the peak of this wave of violence, but 3 or 4 attacks on MPs or candidates in Germany, the coffee in the face of Nijhël Farazh, the blow by the Danish Prime Minister yesterday, etc. , etc., are examples that something is happening with the way European peoples react to their elected officials.
"It's the stupid economy!" The famous phase that energized Bill Clinton's winning campaign in 1992 perhaps offers part of the explanation. The European economy, hit by the post-COVID crisis and inflation, is not in its best days. However, economic hardship is unlikely to justify violence. Europe has gone through much more serious crises in previous years, but they did not escalate into political violence.
The political discourse on the eve of the European elections, which coincide with the elections in Great Britain and with the heating up of the election campaign in America, is another part of the explanation, especially the strengthening of extremist parties with messages often at the limits of what is accepted as "normal". " in Western civilized politics. Fico in Slovakia and Farage in England are examples of politicians with extreme rhetoric and attitudes. While electoral rhetoric offers part of the explanation, it still cannot be the cause of what is happening.
The most convincing explanation, in my opinion, comes from the tense global geopolitical situation. The debate that has been going on for months now as to whether the world is heading towards another world war, or whether this war has already started, is enough to terrify any normal mind and drive people with violent tendencies or mental health problems to extreme actions.
Throughout human history, wars have been waged by elites, but the damages have been paid by "average Joe", "Monsieur Tout-le-Monde", "Jedermann", "Ivan Ivanovich", etc. Very rarely have war-making elites paid the consequences. Even in the trials after the Second World War, several dozen former senior politicians and former axis commanders were sentenced to death; several hundred more war criminals were executed, but the death toll among soldiers and civilians was more than 80 million!!! The elites who waged the war came out unscathed.
Today, European and global citizens are aware that a third world war would cause hundreds of millions of victims, and even according to the apocalyptic scenario of total nuclear war, it could even lead to the extinction of civilization.
If the citizens were asked and their opinion was heard, they would unanimously say against the war. The naive question, but at the same time similar to the child's finding about the naked king, is: "If the citizens of the world do not want war, why have the drums of war started beating?!"
Why do Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden use Victory Day over Nazism and D-Day respectively to give messages of war, instead of giving messages of peace?!
Why has the number of rational world leaders talking about peace and de-escalation remained so small?
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In any civilized society, violence is punishable in any form. But when political violence becomes frequent, politics must get the message that something is happening "down there."
On the other hand, the messages of European citizens to their politicians cannot be limited to the irresponsible actions of some unbalanced ones. Unfortunately, even voting is not a strong enough mechanism to send the right message.
Personally, I think the time has come for Europe and the entire Western world to see massive popular protests again, similar to the American protests against the war in Vietnam.
Only such organizations of hundreds of thousands of citizens together have the strength to deliver the message that the ordinary citizens of the world are no longer ready to go like cattle to the next slaughterhouse and that the time has come for the elites to take their governing responsibility to bring it out. the world from the dangerous spiral into which they have put it.
Today before it's too late...
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