Conservative Nationalism vs. Liberal Multiculturalism: The Revolts of the Masses in Britain and India

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Big Peace:

Americans should take note: Upcoming elections in two English-speaking countries, the United Kingdom and India, are likely to tell a common story; in both nations, conservative nationalism is likely to defeat liberal multiculturalism. That’s good news for conservatives, and an inspiration for Americans, as they look to their own November 2014 elections. And yet, as we shall see, it’s not obvious that the Republican Party will draw the same positive lessons.

Yes, the voters in the UK, India, and the US are putting their elite masters on notice: The slumbering giant of right-tilting nationalist populism has been roused.

Yet given the entrenched power of the elite, including the ability to issue rules and regulations from unaccountable bureaucracies, it’s far from clear that ballot-box victories will translate into the desired change—that is, the victory of conservative nationalism over leftist multiculturalism.

In other words, the forces of “post-nationalism”—those who believe that familiar nation-states are to be transcended, and a new national and international order is to be welcomed—are so entrenched that it’s not so clear that mere elections will change the post-nationalist status quo.

Still, the right has to begin somewhere, and next steps are what we are about to see in the UK and India.

We can begin with the UK, where elections to the European Parliament, located in Strasbourg, France, take place on May 22. As a member-state of the European Union (EU), the Brits have the right to send 78 representatives to the 751-member European Parliament, to deliberate on EU issues. That’s what Britain gets in return for being a member of the 28-nation European Union, spanning from Ireland in the west to Bulgaria in the east, boasting a total population of some 505 million.

And oh, by the way, the 673 members of the parliament from those other 27 countries: They all get a reciprocal say in British politics, as part of the overall EU. Indeed, the EU, headquartered in Brussels, is at least as important a ruling body as the UK government in London. Every day, the EU issues new rules and policies, on everything from consumer goods to climate change to foreign policy—and member countries must obey. The popular British term for this phenomenon is “democracy deficit;” that is, rulings emerge from the Brusselscrats, and there’s nothing to be done about it in England.

To the average American, this all might seem like a radical change—the submerging of British sovereignty into a European superstate. And in fact, that’s exactly what it is, and it’s become the major flashpoint in UK politics.

The conflict in the UK over the EU is not a matter of left vs. right, because the elites in all three major British parties are in full agreement on the importance of the UK remaining a member in good standing of the EU. That is, the governing Conservatives and their allies in government, the Liberal Democrats—yes, you read that right, the Tories and the “Lib Dems” are in a coalition together—and the opposition Labour Party are all united in support of the EU.

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A long and complex essay.
It made me wonder just who Virgil is.
But the takeaway paragraph:

To summarize: In both cases, the entrenched incumbents are wedded to a multiethnic bureaucracy, while the challengers are speaking for a put-upon majority culture—the English in England, the Hindus in India. And in both cases, the challengers—the UKIP for the European Parliament, and the BJP for the Indian nation as a whole—seem destined to win.

For decades the ”elites” made use of the ”colorfulness” of their multi-ethnic allies in order to lull the majority culture into willing acceptance of more and more immigrants.
(See Bruce Bawer’s 2006 book, While Europe Slept, for real-time coverage of this issue.)
Lately the scales have fallen off the eyes of those majorities.
But it took immigrants acting like their bullying and raping and murderous selves before that happened.
A recent set of headlines in UK have been about the ”Trojan Horse” Islamization of many UK public schools.
Apparently the intimidation and threats, the bullying and sexism finally became too much.
A few years ago, the elites and their immigrant allies saw a rising tide of majority culturalists and actually used the old ”Nazi” tag on them as a way to bully them into quietude while the elites and immigrants finished their takeover of Europe then the world.
In a few places their ploy worked.

The elitist plan is slowed down but not stopped.
Virgil is worth reading if he (or she) is going to keep up on events like these.