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Monday 11 September 2017

According to Hobbes, we should neither obey a government nor support a political system that leads us into war and does not protect us from predation by other nations

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is of course the Nation State offering protection to its citizens in return for their obedience. When we no longer believe that our government is acting in our interests, in the national interest or the interests of our descendants, then it is time to question its legitimacy.

Western governments do not support the institutions of marriage and the family because its politicians are incapable of thinking beyond the next election, always less than five years away.

That well-meaning politicians like Trump who win by the rules of democracy cannot really win because the deep state will act to block and isolate him is a sign that the current system is dysfunctional and that he is not in charge.

Not only is the first alt-right President of America not in charge, neither are the rest of our leaders who seem to be mostly childless men or women with no biological investment in the future. They cannot be trusted to lead or govern, can they?

We no longer know what Trump is doing or why he is doing it and the most obvious explanation is that American sabre-rattling against North Korea is intended to bounce the South Koreans into buying US arms and putting up with US-organised military manoeuvres designed to keep up the tension in order to prompt more arms sales.

The only nations in the world that are acting in their national interest and not trying to shove the abomination of gay marriage up the collective sphincter of its people are one-party states like China and Iran or Muslim states like Saudi Arabia.

If our rotten political system is not capable of being reformed under currently available mechanisms, then it must be replaced, so that we, its citizens and our descendants are protected from war by an increasingly demented international order apparently determined to start one.

Britain as a liberal democracy twice declared war on Germany leading to the loss of its world empire, reducing its populace to being citizens of a nation that is currently begging to keep its vassal state status to the EU and the US.

Hobbes believed there should be a supreme authority and absolute monarchy. This must mean Hobbes would support the Caliphate, which is a constitutional dictatorship. That he would support what is now called "British values" by our political classes, which is in fact Transnational Progressivism, is laughable.

https://www.hudson.org/content/researchattachments/attachment/254/transnational_progressivism.pdf

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