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It is interesting to observe the behaviour of three of the youngest and most heralded leaders in the world. These three were exalted when they first came to power but they are roundly hated by the voters of their respective countries now. All were elected at about the same time, and all were approximately the same age. Yes, I am talking about the Brat Pack trio of Ardern, Macron and Trudeau.
But as you can see from their attitude towards those voters who disagree with them, they have more in common than you may at first think.
Let’s start with Emmanuel Macron.
This was Paris over the weekend, where police fired tear gas at protesters who were campaigning against COVID restrictions. We will not pretend that Macron is not behind this.
Macron should be used to protests by now. France’s famous gilets jaune (yellow vests) started campaigning against government mandates in November 2018. They were protesting high fuel prices, high levels of taxation and economic inequality. Their protest was the longest since World War 2. The protests were eventually curtailed due to the onset of COVID-19, but not before a lot of physical harm was done to people as a result of police violence. Macron is a bully boy and a disgrace.
Sounds like the Sprinkler of the House in New Zealand. Admittedly he hasn’t used blast balls, but Barry Manilow… I ask you.
Next, let’s talk about our little friend, Justin Trudeau. Like Jacinda, he loves to play dress-ups, embarrassing himself and his hosts in India by turning up in traditional gear while they all wore business suits.
You have to admit, seeing the traditional garb worn only by the non-Indians in the group is a little odd, don’t you think?
Jacinda and Justin have another thing in common though. When the going gets tough, they both get going… in any direction away from the problem. When the Canadian truckers set out to hit Ottowa, Trudeau vanished, claiming that he had been in contact with someone who knew someone who had danced with someone with COVID. He was safely holed up for several days, referring to a massive convoy as a “fringe minority” and refusing to address the truckers and their concerns. He is still avoiding them, two weeks on. He postulates, he makes threats… he points out that, while everyone has a right to protest (remember the saying: everything you say before the ‘but’ is bullshit), but stopping the delivery of goods is not acceptable.
It might not be acceptable, but it is damned effective, right?
Now, of course, he has granted himself emergency powers to bring in the military to solve the problem if he so chooses. Of course, going along and talking to the ‘fringe minority’ is not an option. He can’t do that now, of course, because he doesn’t want to be seen to be backing down when that is actually the only sensible and viable option left to him.
After all, the ‘fringe minority’ are just ordinary Canadians who want their lives back. In a civilised, democratic society, it is unthinkable that their freedoms should be taken away. But somehow, this is the order of things in 2022.
This brings me to our esteemed leader, Jacinda Ardern.
Jacinda marched when Donald Trump was elected, meaning she protested against the result of free and fair elections in another country. She sympathised with the BLM movement, which resulted in looting, burning and vandalism in several major US cities. She said of the Muslim victims of the dreadful mosque shootings – “They are Us”. But ordinary Kiwis are not “us”.
When her own voters want to be given back the freedoms that the Bill of Rights automatically awards to them, they are “terrorists”, “white supremacists” ‘‘imported” and peddling “misinformation”. Boy, when Jacinda learns a new word, she flogs it to death. The only “misinformation” we hear these days comes from her own mouth, and from her lapdogs in the bought-and-paid-for media.
Jacinda won’t back down either. Her most likely tactic will be to run and hide while someone else sorts out the unholy mess on her behalf. Then she will turn up again, all toothy smiles, as if nothing happened.
But the thing that these three tyrants seem to have forgotten is that their brutality is being applied to their own people. These are their own voters, the ones that they have promised to serve, that they are jackbooting all over, and it has to end.
These are their own voters that they are insulting, minoritising and generally treating with disdain.
If you thought Hilary Clinton’s “deplorables” comment was bad, it turns out that it was the start of a new movement among the world’s elite leaders. They have taken that sentiment and used it to rub in the noses of ordinary citizens.
Where will it all end? I predict it will get very bad for Trudeau very soon. No one in their right mind could possibly think it is okay to treat their own citizens in this way. As for Ardern… well, where Justin goes, she tends to follow.
I do not pretend to know where this will all lead. All I want to say to the Bratpack tyrants is – thanks to social media, we can all see the truth. And the truth does not make any of you look good. It is time for you all to go, and let the adults take over.
