Offsite Post: ‘False System vs False System in the Netherlands’

 

Dixie has always had a heavily agricultural economy, so many here are able to sympathize with the farmers in the Netherlands, whose lands and livelihoods are being threatened by globalists and radical environmentalists to further their agendas of technocratic control, depopulation, and so on.

And more than that.  The Dutch farmers are skillfully using unconventional tactics in their fight (e.g., blocking roadways with manure, tractors, or hay bales set aflame), something Southerners also are familiar with in their wars against the British Empire (1776-83) and the nascent Yankee Empire (1861-5) under generals such Francis Marion, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and John Mosby.

But there is another similarity that isn’t so good.  The South in her fight against the Yanks didn’t offer enough of a difference in fundamental ideals to inspire her people to keep fighting until independence was achieved.  To be sure, there were (and are) some very real, very deep differences between the two that played a large role in their conflict.  But what the War between the States ultimately boiled down to was a clash between two types of governmental systems:  the centralized, unrestrained Yankee governing system and the decentralized, limited government of Dixie.  And there simply isn’t enough spiritual strength and vitality in an idea like constitutional interpretation to fire good, decent men to fight in an agonizing war for years on end.

Thus, the South surrendered to Lincoln’s Army in 1865 after only four years of fighting, and has not mustered the wherewithal to challenge Washington City’s rule over her since then.

A similar situation may be developing in the Netherlands, where a right to widely distributed private ownership of land, economic autonomy, and this sort of thing is being opposed to a centrally planned economy with very few owners.  Will the Dutch farmers be able to keep their resistance going with abstractions like ‘freedom’ as their underlying motivation?

The prospects do not seem too bright.  In a contest of one atheistic, materialistic ideology (distributed ownership of farms) vs another atheistic, materialistic ideology (central ownership of farms), the system being pushed by the more ruthless of the two groups of people will likely prevail. 

This is what happened in the States:  Lincoln and his generals waged unlimited warfare against the civilians of the South and broke them down physically and mentally.  Likewise in Canada with the trucker protests earlier this year, the globalist Trudeau government used harsh tactics against the protestors to bring that populist rebellion to a quick end.

The protests in the Netherlands are likely headed for the same sort of resolution:  a hard crackdown by the Rutte government that breaks the spirit of the protestors, who then tamely submit to the new order.  Unless . . .

Unless they infuse their protest with a substantive religious core.

For hundreds of years, the West has been working feverishly to secularize her society, to reject her Christian past.  But it is precisely there that she will find what she needs to persevere against the globalists.

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The rest is at http://thesaker.is/false-system-vs-false-system-in-the-netherlands/.

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