The Woke Demise of Democracy. By Paul Sturdee.

Ever since the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Parliament has been seen as the sovereign political power in Britain, ruling in the name of the monarch, but a monarch invited into that role and remaining in that role only with the support of Parliament itself. In 1689 John Locke anonymously published his Two Treatises on Government in which he set down in formal terms the idea that democratically accountable government by a Parliament of elected representatives was really government by consent of the people. The ultimate source of sovereignty lies with the people themselves, and they lend that sovereignty to Parliament between elections.

But over the years Parliament seems to have forgotten that it possesses its power only under sufferance, and that its masters are really the people who elect their representatives to that role, an electorate of sovereign citizens, possessors of political liberty and personal freedom. …

The new fracture lines in British society are not between socio-economic classes or races or attitudes to climate change. Most ordinary people simply do not organise themselves into factions around these issues, as is evident by the lack of popular support for traditional class politics, identity politics, or even save-the-planet demonstrations. Although the woke progressive activists like to claim popular support, their mass demonstrations rarely attract more than a few thousand supporters, and to assemble that many in one place means many supporters travelling long distances.

The new fracture lines in the UK today are between those who have power, authority and influence, be it political, economic, social or cultural — along with their supporters and enablers — and those who lack power, authority or influence: the great majority of people. …

The World Economic Forum — set up to be the voice of the globalist economic elite — invites the leaders of Western countries to its annual agenda meeting at Davos each January to lecture them on how they should be running their countries. A visit to the WEF website reveals their agenda: a new world order bringing together all the world’s countries into one globally-regulated bloc (meaning that the sovereign democratic state becomes a meaningless abstraction). The WEF and George Soros may claim to support democracy, but what they have in mind is anything but democratic because what matters is the power of big money, not the way people vote. In other words, democracy only matters if people vote the “right” way, and one way of ensuring this is to make the differences between the main political parties merely cosmetic.

The political theatre of hostile rhetoric conceals a grim reality: the main parties are no longer offering alternatives, but only variations on a theme. And that theme is woke progressivism. …

The post-war years of successful democratic government have been turned into a story of failure, with the clock being turned backwards towards the bad old days. Seventy years of positive reforms are now slowly being dismantled …

The founder and director of the WEF, Klaus Schwab, is totally open in his book COVID-19: The Great Reset (2020) as to how the pandemic is being utilised to implement the agenda of the world’s globalist hyper-rich elite. …

The success of Western representative democracy has been turned into failure, as a result of the hubris of those who seek power, and the greed of those who desire ever more wealth and the influence attached to it. The great mass of ordinary people, those with little money or power, now have to face the grim reality that their natural right to sovereignty is being denied them by an oligarchic elite who hold them in contempt. …

We will have to endure all over again the struggle for political liberty and personal freedom, or succumb to the rising tide of pathological irrationality that is woke progressivism as it imposes its destructive and repressive agenda of identity politics, open borders, climate change and enforced wealth redistribution, setting one group against another whilst telling us it is all for our own good.

hat-tip Stephen Neil