By: Jože Biščak
When an ordinary person listens to and watches the prime minister, ministers, and other government officials, they must feel like a complete idiot, like the two of spades in Briscola.
He works hard to survive (and support his family), pays countless taxes, levies, and invented contributions, and maybe has a little left to set aside. Most importantly, he naively believes the mainstream media, which daily convinces him that things are improving and that his feeling that everything is getting more expensive is wrong. Just a little more patience, and all promises will be fulfilled – then milk and honey will flow, they say more and more often, while the country on the sunny side of the Alps speeds like a seasonal express train into the most brutal socialism.
It is easy to throw around promises: from great economic achievements that are just around the corner to the idea that people do not have to worry about anything because the state will take care of everything for them. Of course, by taking everything away from the citizens, they eliminate the need for any worries. One of the big promises is the construction of public rental housing. The leftist gang of thieves from Gregorčičeva Street in Ljubljana has scaled down its lofty goals and taken credit for what previous governments started. They have not even put a shovel in the ground yet but dream of building 20,000 apartments in the next ten years. Instead of making private property more accessible by lowering tax burdens, they are now monopolising the housing market. The result, as we can say with certainty, will be even more expensive and less accessible housing. Yes, the allure of socialism has always been false promises – to create wealth and distribute resources more fairly than the free market would. And for these goals, which ultimately turn out to be castles in the sky, we are told it is worth sacrificing freedom – economic freedom, personal freedom, freedom of speech, and property rights. It is unbelievable that what failed under the former totalitarian regime is now succeeding in a world of parliamentary democracy.
We have apparently already gotten used to the administrative tricks of Golob’s government (such as artificially shortening waiting lists in healthcare) to the point that we care about them as much as last year’s snow. But the fact that our own money is being stolen before our eyes – without us filling the streets and tarring and feathering the autocrats – is incomprehensible. For example, the government will pass a law forcing those who do not even own solar power plants, a textbook example of eco-socialist experiments, to cover the losses of electricity suppliers. Hello?! Is anyone going to wake up? Or will we remain sheep? No, on the side of (cultural) Marxism, there is neither civilisation nor prosperity. The economist Friedrich von Hayek described this already 80 years ago in his book The Road to Serfdom.
The current government, led by the Freedom Movement (the word “freedom” in its name sounds like bad satire), has completely destroyed credibility in politics. All they know how to do is tell the same lies over and over. And then we stand at the traffic light, not knowing when to go forward, because the lights – red, yellow, green – keep flashing randomly. They take us for fools. That is all there is to it. There is no other explanation. And while doing this, they preach about democracy. They understand democracy, as they sometimes admit out loud, as seizing unlimited power through a parliamentary majority, keeping the people in chains. Or, as Hayek put it: “By giving the government unlimited power, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way, democracy can establish the most complete despotism imaginable.”
From this kind of corrupt and bureaucratic swamp, the authorities tell us, the God-fearing citizens, that we are the corrupt ones, not them – because we do not like their brilliant solutions, because we oppose new taxes, because we turn our noses up at the green agenda, because we dislike illegal migrants from the Third World, because we do not want gender ideology at our doorstep. Just another lie. Governments are corrupt in direct proportion to how much money they take from net taxpayers and redirect to their loyal NGOs or party colleagues. That is what causes government corruption. And that is exactly what Golob’s government is.
