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These days, as is often the case at the end of the year, there are political greetings, often touchingly optimistic. Which isn’t all that surprising, because what else do politicians have to interpret in their eternal pursuit of popularity? But the joke is that next year doesn’t offer much reason for optimism.
It would be nice to equip myself by this year with what could probably best be described as the courage to inform. As The Economist recently calculated, more than half of humanity lives in countries where national elections will be held next year. The vote will take place in seventy countries and participation is expected to reach two billion. The Czechs will also go to the polls. In addition to regional and Senate elections, the new composition of the European Parliament will be decided simultaneously throughout the Union in June.
Why so much courage? Because inflation, migration pressure and media illiteracy in the face of misinformation continue to create fertile ground for populism. It would be stupid to wave your hand at this in the sense of: Well, what if things in the European Parliament turned out like in the Netherlands, where the demagogue Geert Wilders recently triumphed; after all, the world wouldn’t have collapsed. On the other hand. If the European Parliament loses its ability to act due to obstruction and destructive behavior, it could soon have a sad impact on the energy security efforts of EU countries, which is a hot topic due to ongoing Russian aggression towards Ukraine and ever-rising prices. Economic growth can also be pointed out. In countries with a common currency it is around zero, and in the Czech Republic it is currently even negative.
In short: In such a situation, it would be advisable that Parliament, as the original forge of the Union and thus also of Czech legislation, does not become a political circus that is less boring for the populists, but rather a self-imposed, destructive political circus for Europe.
The courage to be informed is something we wish the people of Taiwan will have to decide in a few weeks between the presidential candidates of three parties, one of which – the Kuomintang – is quite lenient towards the regime on the Chinese mainland. Or you would wish that on the Indians. In the elections they will talk about the government of Narendra Modi, who will go down in history as the standard-bearer of anti-minority Hindu nationalism. And then you can wish it to everyone who is looking forward to the Olympic Games in Paris. However, the International Olympic Committee has made the shameful decision to allow individual athletes from Russia and Belarus to take part. Exposing the participants from Ukraine to their presence would be a shameful demonstration of moral bankruptcy.
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But the US presidential election is shaping up to be the most important political event of the year. A notorious liar and narcissist, who will be seventy-eight years old at the time of the election, is about to challenge the not-so-successful, unpopular, eighty-one-year-old in full view of the world. old president whose health is deteriorating.
Perhaps only from a gerontological point of view is the exciting duel between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. However, it is not yet a given, as the Republican primaries are coming up at the beginning of January, where things can still get interesting. In second place, New Hampshire, according to the polls, is Nikki Haley, an old, let’s say Reagan-style conservative who is now 51 and has been attracting a lot of attention lately in hopes that the Republicans do not go down in history thanks to her, according to the polls, they are nipping at Trump’s heels like a bunch of nihilists.
However, if it remains the case for both men, the average American pre-election polls will now give Donald Trump a slight lead, who scores points primarily because the southern border with Mexico was better protected from migrants during his term in office. At the same time, Trump has already admitted that he wants to act like a dictator for at least a day after his election.
He didn’t reveal what he wanted to achieve that day. Lately, however, he has been using expressions that closely resemble the diction of Nazi leaders. His opponents are “vermin” and migrants who come to the United States in search of a better life are “poisoning the blood of our country.” He is not afraid to quote Putin’s statements with admiration, such as those about the “laziness of American democracy.” And when war broke out in the Holy Land in October, Trump called the militants of the terrorist organization Hezbollah “very smart.”
Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a man whose courage failed to inform all who could have stopped him before he unleashed mass murder, famine, war and impunity for brutes. The tsarist authorities failed, just as before the Bolshevik coup the secret services of the European powers failed to guess him when he ran under their noses in their capitals. Even back then, there was a naive opinion in Europe that it was better to let these false prophets have their way in the sense of the above-mentioned “The world will not end” and then somehow use them to one’s advantage, for example as an ally in a war.
However, the result is that for a hundred years Russia has been following the path of usurpation and value destruction with the aim of destroying everything around it. The presidential election in Russia scheduled for March will be a tragicomic variety show that will once again clearly illustrate this danger for the entire world. Of course they win at it – guess who.
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