The Highwire with Del Bigtree - POPULIST WAVE SWEEPS EU ELECTIONS

Episode Date: June 22, 2024

Throughout the EU and beyond, critical masses are rebuking the war, immigration, net zero, health mandate parties in search of better leadership that reflects the values of freedom and transparency.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

Last week you opened the show, you recounted your time in Geneva. You were there, you were saying, look, it really looks like the W.HO, the W.E.F. They're digging in here. They're building infrastructure. They're not going anywhere anytime soon. And you said they're really preparing to push their agendas on the people. And they may have a little problem with that. Because what just happened in Europe, a lot of people in America really don't understand the gravity of this. These were the European Union parliamentary elections. And what are those? This is the world's largest multi-country voting election.

Really, again, in the world, 27 nations, over 370 million registered voters, and they vote on the seats. There's over 720 seats in this European Union parliament that are up for grabs. The bigger the country, the more seats you have. Germany has 96, France has 81. Wow. And really, you know, the European Union, the parliament there, the members of parliament, on the power continuum, they don't wield a lot of power compared to individual presidents of countries. But what this was was a pulse check, a bellwether. And how did that go? Take a look.

High election drama in Europe as results of elections to the EU parliament came in. Voters in 27 countries have elected more far-right members. The vote is having a significant impact. European voters have pulled to the farthest right it's ever been and that is causing people anxiety. Voters in Germany, Italy, Austria and the Netherlands also sent more far-right candidates. In France right now, where President Emmanuel Macron's moderate party was beaten so badly by the far-right party of Marine Le Pen that Macron called for a snap election, dissolving parliament in the process. The German Chancellor Olaf Schultz's SPD, the Social Democrats, heading for their worst-ever national election results. The AFD has tapped into frustrations with Schultz's governments. The Ukraine War and State Services burdened by rising migration.

and a cost of living crisis have hit hard. In Italy, Georgia Maloney and her far-right brothers of Italy parties forecast to more than double its seats in the European Parliament since the last election. European voters show that they're more concerned about what's directly and really negatively impacting them. To a large degree, the EU election results are a litmus test, an indication of how the bloc will handle critical issues.

It's really amazing. I'll just state it because I haven't for a while that I grew up a progressive, of liberal Democrat from Boulder, Colorado, like the Crystal Cathedral of liberalism. And I find myself giddy when I watch a news thing like this. And I even was talking to my parents, you know, and family members this last week who were very concerned how everything's moving to the right. Everything's going conservative. And I'm like, oh my God, you guys, thank God it is.

And that's, you know, and I'm trying to explain to those. I love as many of the ex-democrats that I know are watching right now, We used to be the party that was against war. We were certainly against authoritarianism and definitely against censorship, all of which are the tools that are now being used by liberals. So as you push in this conservative space, it's all those that appear to be pushing back against the insanity we all find ourselves living in. And maybe the pendulum will go too far one way, but God, we need a pendulum shift right now,

and it appears to be happening in Europe. Right. And let's break this down. So people have been taught to think in polarization. in this or that left or right, far right. But what does this really mean? Let's use a term instead of far right, because that's been using context for people

to think of certain things when they think of that. Populist is a less charged word, or even just people concerned about what is going on in their lives and their countries that are affecting their families and their home, their town, their communities. That's what they're talking about here. And we can see Germany, France, Italy, even Austria,

also went far right, if you will, if you look at these headlines, and they top the EU elections. So they're winning seats in this parliament, this EU parliament. But what are the big hot button topics? Well, unchecked migration, you're talking climate laws, these aggressive climate laws that are rapidly changing society. This is the first time this parliament has voted since 2019. It's every five years. So what happened since then, the failed COVID response. So people were able to vent their frustrations in this vote about that.

And we're talking also about the war in Ukraine and even, you know, the economy. Everyone, it seems from the U.S. to the European Union, the countries in there are dealing with economic issues. People are having a hard time affording just basic needs. And so this is the New York Times on the run-up to the elections. And this is how they framed it. The EU is voting. It never mattered more. And it says the parliament that emerges from these elections, weak though as it, weak though it may be, will serve as a break or accelerator for the crucial policies that will help

shape Europe's immediate future. And what are those? Well, you can see them. You just look through the headlines here. Here's one of them, far right victories in EU elections, imperil Ukraine support. Another one from Fox News. Europe expected to move right in EU elections

amid voter anger over legal immigration, crime economy. But then we talk about the green agenda, net zero push. Before you do, I just want to make a point because it pops into my head as I was in Geneva, Switzerland last week. You know what one of the things that many of the people from the different countries are saying is when the New York Times is saying, well, the European Union is weak. The opposite is proving to be true. These nations are saying we no longer, our leaders have no power in our country. We are being forced to go along with whatever the EU decides. It's dragging us

around by our tails and we've had it, that we cannot stand up. Our finances for the country are wrapped into it. You know, how the dollar is, where the EU currency, all of it, they are being manipulated by this overarching authoritarian, you know, sort of globalist regime, which is the EU parliament. And so I want to push back on that. Don't listen to these newspapers. This is a part of the propaganda. Oh, it's just nothing. No, what is nothing now is the sovereignty of those nations that are part of the EU.

Talk to anyone that's watching what's happening inside of their country. Exactly. So we're really talking about massive centralization to these authorities or power back to individual countries and their leadership that are appointed by the people. And one of the biggest, one of the biggest pushes across the world in any country you're looking at is the net zero push, this green agenda, this rapid transition of economies onto an ideology that the world is ending if we don't move to net zero. So this is one of the things that shape these boats.

It says here, cost of going green sparks backlash from Europe's boaters. And never was that more really on the front burner than in the Netherlands. The Netherlands is the breadbasket of the EU. They're the second largest exporter of agriculture behind the United States in the world. I mean, this tiny little country is just a little bigger than Maryland to give you an idea. And they have over generations perfected farming. And remember, they went to war against their farmers. They had to cut fertilizer.

They were buying out farms. They were cutting their heads of cattle. And people had enough. And they formed their own party there. This is the headline when it happened. They formed a farmers protest party. Farmers protest party win shock Dutch boat victory. And then right after they did that, they said this,

we can topple the prime minister and former government says leaders of the Dutch farmers party. And then what happened? Dutch prime minister, Mark Root, is quitting politics. So they were obviously somewhat successful in that. So these are the things that are shaping this, but it's not, you know, these ideas are not just confined to Europe. They're not just confined to these individual nations like Germany or Italy. You're seeing this ideology of populism, I guess you're going to call it all over the world.

And it's almost like everyone got the memo and said, we're done with this. This is Peter Dutton in Australia. He's the opposition leader. And over the next year, many are saying that he may be the next prime minister of Australia. This is the headline coming out of Australia right now. Dutton to pull Australia out of the Paris Agreement if elected. So he's making bold statement. Remember, the Paris Agreement is full net zero push.

We can't let the climate go over. 1.5 degrees Celsius or something's going to happen, but we don't exactly know what. And so that you're seeing it at every level, even at the court level. So just two months ago, this is one of the court rulings. It is a landmark international ruling in Switzerland. This was the headline that was made from it. International court rules Switzerland violated human rights and landmark climate case brought by 2,000 women. So what happened? Well, just now, Switzerland, their parliament is not going to go along with that. court rulings. Swiss Parliament snubs European court climate ruling. So they're saying we're not

doing this. We refuse to do this. We want this to go back to a vote, go back to the court. This is, you know, they're not basically bowing to this court rule. So again, at every level from the individual voter to the members of parliament to actual court hearings and precedent, people are not following what they've been following over the last five years or taught to follow, whether it's, you know, this green energy, the COVID politics, all of this stuff. It's there's a big change happening. And this is a litmus test for possibly what's going to be happening in the U.S. as we move into the elections. Wow. I mean, it's really incredible developments. It just goes to show you when push comes to shove, when you beat your citizens with clubs, force them back into

their homes, forcibly inject them with vaccines, tell them that they're going to stop transmission. And then by shot number nine, that becomes a reality that it's not true. And then you parade out the heads of the scientists that all told you that locking down and, standing six feet apart and not allowing yourself into a hospital to see your loved one die, that all that was based on an assumption, no science whatsoever. When you start seeing those things happen and attack on your foods, why taking away farmers, the lifeblood of every decent nation, and stealing their farms from them, just shocking that the people that are against that

end up moving into power. Thank God that the people still have the power. And that's, I really want to celebrate that because I know it was really heavy last week and though we're going to get into some really heavy developments happening, it's still proof people have the power. We'll still hear, do not. I want to say this, do not let people convince you that your vote doesn't matter. It's all totally rigged.

If that were the case, we wouldn't be seeing this shift in Europe, because I guarantee you, no one wants to see an opposition to this global push right now, but that's exactly who's taking power, is the opposition. The rebels are winning.