Interesting to see a list of countries and level of governmental trust. There’s a pretty direct relationship (correlation, not causation of course) between countries who put their country first, versus countries who put a global agenda (climate change, green energy, engaging in foreign wars, etc..) first.
Similarly, countries who limit immigration do much better than countries who don’t. Which is probably why USA is among the least trusted governments by its own citizenry.
The highest countries are: Saudi Arabia, India, China, Malaysia - all with greater than 2/3rds of citizens reporting trust. All have very strict limits on immigration and have no global fetishes. (Other than China’s, which is to rule the world, ha, but I suppose that will benefit the Chinese. It helps that their standard of living has quintupled over past couple decades.) None of the aforementioned have ambition to put their troops or money behind proxy wars or actual wars.
The lowest countries are Argentina (the poster child of the globalist International Monetary Fund), South Africa, and UK; France, Germany and US are the next laggards, with low 39-42% trust levels.
The highest European country, the only one with greater than 50% rating, is the Netherlands.
The Netherlands have cut immigration sharply: “Since 2007 the Netherlands is currently the only country in the world to demand knowledge of language and society from its inhabitants (with a non-Western immigrant background) before allowing them to stay permanently.”
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Speaking of reasons not to trust our government, a recent Tucker Carlson episode shows that the government likely planted and “discovered” the pipe bombs found on January 6th. Not surprising, as we’d had a lot of hints toward that end for a long while, but what is interesting is if it made any difference to anyone not already disposed to voting for Trump.
Naive me, the scariest thing about J6 at the time were the pipe bombs. I was like, “whoa! That’s chilling.” The protestors didn’t seem to have weapons and so would, presumably, be removed (as they were after a long enough period of time had elapsed to ensure the narrative).
It’s pretty amazing that the government so hated Trump that they would act recklessly enough to incite and encourage J6 trespassers. They “helpfully” cut down wire fencing surrounding the Capitol (that guy was never caught, surprise, surprise, despite being on camera) and they had a guy up on scaffolding with a bullhorn saying “go forward! Into the Capitol!” (He was never caught, surprise, despite his high visibility.) And of course there’s Ray Epps who got probation only despite being on the front lines, whispering sweet nothings into the ear of a guy who just afterward, as if on Epps’ say-so, broke down a barrier.
One thing seems reasonably certain: elections, no matter how dubious they may seem, are apparently not easily rigged. The ’16 election would seem to be proof of that although many claim that that’s because the riggers were caught by surprise. But the lengths the elites are going to kill Trump’s movement suggests they were/are/will be panicky. January 6th was, it seemed at the time, the perfect vehicle to not only discredit Trump but also his movement. A win-win for the bad guys. So there’s a boatload of satisfaction in the knowing that their plan failed and that Trump is back in the driver’s seat despite it all. I’m pretty proud of my country, proud that so many people are going to vote for Trump despite his many flaws. Given the unbelievably biased press thrown at Trump it’s a miracle he’s even a political force at all.
But I still wonder. Do any Democrats or even political centrists care that their government encouraged J6? Would they not believe it simply because it’s not on CBS or CNN? If they believed it, would they simply say Trump and his crowd deserved it?
In other words, how much is due to ignorance and how much is due to a realization that we're past the rule-of-law stuff?
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