The only justification for the rule of the liberal oligarchy rests on portraying utterly insane things that would supposedly happen if the liberal oligarchy were removed from power.
But that is easier said than done. Once we think about it, the problem becomes clear: there is simply nothing to frighten people with.
Would a radical change in the way the country is governed mean zombies going from house to house and eating children alive? Would giant robots arrive, seizing people and turning their blood into fertilizer? Or would there be “merely” transports to Siberian labor camps? Not even the BBC claims anything of the sort.
So how exactly would it be worse than Fiala’s government in the Czech Republic, or Merz’s government in Germany? An even greater decline in living standards? Even more political trials? Even more idiotic regulations? Support for even more aggressive NGOs? Involvement in still more wars?
But the point is not what would actually happen. The point is what emotions the prospect evokes. This is also why the frightening alternative is not compared with reality, but with some imaginary state of perfection. A country, in other words, where there is absolute freedom of speech and thought, where people are immune to manipulation, where they are capable of reaching a common consensus and moving the country toward higher living standards, greater security, stronger morals, personal development, and so forth. Against such a vision, almost anything can be made to look positively apocalyptic.
The final argument is an appeal to self-respect and some vaguely defined moral value. What exactly is it about rule by the liberal oligarchy that means we need not be ashamed, while the prospect of its removal from power means that we must be? Notice that no one has ever explained this.
We will return to that point. For now, however, notice just how astonishingly weak this is. Not only compared with the postwar era, but with earlier periods as well. And this despite the liberal oligarchy having hundreds of advertising agencies, tens of thousands of professional intellectuals, and overwhelming cultural dominance at its disposal.