Some years ago a young lady came into my circle of friends and acquaintances who didn't quite fit in. She was very active politically, and uncompromisingly ideological. She drifted from the Tories to UKIP, where she made news as a councillor in 2014 for stating that businesses should be allowed to refuse to serve "women and gay people", causing Alan Davies to make her into a minor Twitter celebrity. Her UKIP career thus stalled, she announced that UKIP were too damn lilly-livered and moved to work for Breibart.
Breibart styles itself a news agency, but is really a simple political front. Their UK Editor in Chief - Raheem Kassam - is Aaron Banks' choice for the next leader of UKIP, but rather more significantly, Breibart's executive Chairman - Steve Bannon - ran Trump's campaign, and is reported in today's press to be in line to become his Chief of Staff.
Today, she sent the following message to one of our group. This is a direct cut/paste, and I'm not going to editorialise on it at all. Take from it what you will.
That isn't to say that all this will all come to pass - Dubya didn't manage to implement the Project For The New American Century in two terms - but at the very least it speaks to intent.
Enough of me.
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Hello. Don't know if you'll find this message beause of the way Facebook works now (ie, badly), but i thought i'd take a shot anyway, because Trump has just been elected, and because based on your post of June 22nd (which I can't comment on or I would), you're probably thinking "what the ****!" right now.
You work for international companies, and those companies are in the business, ultimately, of making money. I get that.
I write for a publication called Breitbart. You *may* have heard of it because our Editor in Chief ran Trump's campaign. Our business is smashing your overarching business model. I don't mean capitalism, we like that. Money is good. I mean globalism. Our company motto is #War. We mean it.
Let me give you an insider tip, because you're going to need it to navigate your way through the next few years.
We have changed the world order. Not just us of course (although i like to flatter myself I've played a small part); UKIP, Farage, Le Pen, Geert Wilders, Trump, AfD, Lega Nord.... all of these have tapped into a power that was already there. And that power is people.
As you may (or may not) recall, I love Thatcher. She did a lot of good for our country. But she didn't get it all right. She thought that if you liberated a country economically the rest would follow. She was wrong.
Globalism, which is what Thatcherism ultimately spawned, is great for some (you and your friends and colleagues, mainly) but it's not good for all. And specifically, it's not good for the working classes who have been left behind and shut out, seen their sovereignty and their way of life eroded. Globalism flipped their world on its head. They are angry and they have a right to be - they've lost literally everything they had, and they didn't have much to start with.
Brexit, and now Trump, are merely the old world order righting itself again.
I didn't put any money on Brexit because I didn't quite believe the country would go for it, but I won a tidy sum betting on Trump months before he even won the Primary, because i heard his rhetoric and recognised what it represented. It's the authentic voice of unabashed, unashamed western culture. And it's the pattern for the whole of the western world for the next 20 years.
Brexit was first, now Trump. I'm sceptical about Le Pen in France beause I think their country is too far gone, but Merkel will be out at the next election in about a year's time. The EU will be gone within the decade. It may not go entirely peacefully. Prepare for that possibility.
Economically all countries have overleveraged and we will have another big collapse within the next five years. Put your money in gold and silver now.
As for your business models; embrace the change, don't fear it. Brexit is fantastic for this country, tap into the opportunities it affords. But understand that the old ways of doing things, where people were treated as commodities or assets to be moved around spreadsheets is gone. Embrace patriotism, there's nothing wrong with it. Invest in people, particularly young apprentices.
Most of all, enjoy the ride we've created for you. It's going to be wild, but if you relax into it you'll love it as much as we do.
Any questions, feel free to ask."
So now you know.