Pirate's Cove

I wonder why? The Hill’s Merrill Matthews explains

Opinion – Developed economies across the globe are abandoning progressive policies

Since November, Democrats have been trying to understand how they could possibly have lost an election to the likes of Donald Trump. But it’s not just Trump and the United States. Several key elements of the progressive-liberal policy agenda are in retreat in developed economies as voters and elected officials turn to more reasonable, practical and financially sustainable policies.

Here are three key components of the progressive agenda that are now being spurned.

Open borders. Illegal immigration has roiled U.S. politics for years, but in the election it “surged to the top of the most important problem list,” according to Gallup, even as Democrats both defended the illegal immigrant surge and went to extremes to argue it wasn’t happening. But the U.S. wasn’t alone.

A recent report from the Center for Migration Studies says, “The European Union (EU), as well as individual European countries, have in the last several years launched several initiatives to prevent asylum-seekers from reaching their shores.” Those candidates campaigning for immigration clampdowns gained seats in this year’s European Parliament elections.

Reuters says concerns over immigration and asylum policies were high on the list of the EU’s five biggest countries by population: “Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Poland — plus Sweden.” As a result, political parties pushing immigration reform made gains in several EU countries:

Matthews provides much more on the subject, but, let’s consider that immigration was actually a lower ranking issue going into the 2024 U.S. election per many polls throughout 2024. When it came to actually voting it jumped much higher, as people remembered the border being overrun and Biden shipping fake asylum seekers all over the country, especially to small towns, then saw him actually able to significantly lower border crossings with the stroke of a pen. People in sanctuary cities saw the outcome when Texas shipped huge numbers to the cities, which saw crime, filth, and 3rd world conditions emerge, all while their hard-earned tax dollars were spent on foreigners.

In Europe they are mostly dealing with fake asylum seekers from Africa and the Muslim world, with many coming from Africa also being Muslim. They refuse to assimilate and, instead, install their own cultures. They create no-go zones. They harass and assault citizens. And the governments take the side of the FASs rather than the citizens, even jailing citizens for saying and writing Mean things. So, the citizens are turning against their progressive overlords.

The green energy transition. Developed economies in Europe and the U.S. under Democratic administrations have made transitioning to clean energy more of a mandate than a goal. They have taken major steps, both politically and financially, to implement the net-zero economy — where greenhouse gases being emitted into the atmosphere equal the amount being removed. That’s changing.

As Wall Street Journal columnist Joseph C. Strenberg writes, “2025 may be the year net zero dies. Such a development isn’t inevitable, but what was once described as ‘the climate crisis’ is morphing into the climate-crisis crisis as voters lose patience with the project and grow less shy about saying so.”

Citizens may support cleaner energy, heck, I do, but, they do not support the forced transition which is raising the cost of energy, limiting the availability of energy, raising the cost of food and goods, and seeing the removal of their rights to Big Government. And many governments are now backtracking on their Net Zero pledges, especially in Europe.

Transgender youth. The trans issue in the November election wasn’t about adults who transition — they’re old enough to make their choices and live with them — but about children, along with biological males playing in women’s sports. Most Americans oppose both, and the issue played a role in some voters’ decisions.

But Europe is also having second thoughts. Forbes reports, “Increasingly, European nations are adopting a more cautious approach to gender-affirming care among minors.” And that shift began a year before the release of the Cass Report in England, which raised several red flags about pushing gender-affirming care on minors.

Citizens realize that it is child abuse and people should be jailed for allowing, and, really, forcing children to go through drugs and surgeries, to live as the opposite sex. Most agree that if you’re an adult, do what you want. Children? No. It’s driven by parents, teachers, and other adults who are plain nuts and shouldn’t be around any children. It’s as horrible as constantly mentally and physically abusing a child.

Likewise, people are getting more vocal over the notion that trans of all ages should not be in the safe spaces and sports of real women.

Will the politicians get a clue? Will the majority of people who support the policies start getting a clue and switch their support and votes like many of their brethren did and vote against the wacko Progressive (nice Fascist) politicians who force this on the citizens regardless of their opinion?

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