Opinion
Is “OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE” coming back?
The next election could be the “Peoples’ Election”.
We should bring back; “Of the people, By the people, For the People”.
You know the ones that don’t demand but get the job done. Working hard to put a roof over their head, pay their taxes, has no advocates, looking for no special treatment, and quietly goes about living their lives.
Politically, we ran off the rails electing politicians who just politic for the sake of politicking. Election after elections they run, sometimes jumping from one arena or seat to another.
Perhaps they started with good intentions but after a few elections they get in a rut, burn out but they are used to the life style, the power, the name recognition and it is easier to win with the name recognition and past campaign experience.
But is it right?
Don’t they lose touch with the lives of non-political citizens? There are many who want things, demand changes and policies from the politicians and they do ingratiate themselves with politicians for their own personal gain.
Former Premier Ralph Klein’s wife put it starkly after Ralph retired. “They stopped calling, they stopped visiting.” I remember another politician saying that when he lost the election, his phone stopped ringing.
Perhaps the lifers, the politicians who run again and again, need this? They need people to just call.
The U.S. President can only be the president for 2 terms, and there is a reason for that. A new president will bring new perspectives, new ideas, and have less baggage. We don’t have term limits, maybe we should?
Perhaps the new politicians will push the boundaries. Instead of subsidizing an area for decades, perhaps let them find their own way to survive. The downtown is one example that comes to mind after decades of throwing money at it, let it downsize, disappear or evolve on it’s own. Sink or swim? I believe it will adapt on its’ own.
Perhaps we could stop investing in building new neighbourhoods and invest in the older neighbourhoods?
Perhaps stop investing in singular events and invest in something the current residents can enjoy everyday?
Politicians have done surveys, created committees and heard from the population but their voices seem muted compared to the voices of the few in the inner circle.
So perhaps we should bring in term limits to give “Regular People” an opportunity to bring new ideas, new energy and a new perspective to politics. A new twist to an old idea.
Every politician thinks they are the best person for the position they hold, but the world will not end if someone new takes the seat.
Perhaps the world may change for the better, and political lifers, could be the road block? Possible?
Perhaps the next election could be the “Peoples’ Election”.
From the X account of Andrew Scheer
Mark Carney spent his entire life promoting the carbon tax.
Now he’s trying to scam Canadians out of billions and to do it he’s put a whole crew together.
It could be the biggest con job in Canadian history. Only YOU can stop it! pic.twitter.com/1DyywsynBN
— Andrew Scheer (@AndrewScheer) February 22, 2025
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
By Newt Gingrich
In an amazing show of courage, Vice President J.D. Vance offered an intervention for some of our European allies.
That is the best way to think of the two historic speeches he made in France and Germany last week.
In Paris, Vice President Vance pledged the United States would do whatever it takes to lead the world in the development of Artificial Intelligence. He went on to assert that Europe’s automatic response to regulate technological change rather than adapt to it was doomed to fail.
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Vance warned the Europeans that the Trump administration would retaliate to protect American high-tech companies from being fined and regulated by the European community.
Then, Vance went to the Munich Security Conference. It is the annual meeting of European leaders concerned about defense and threats to peace. The Vice President shocked the Europeans by launching a frontal assault on the decay of their political system.
As Vance put it:
“But while the Trump administration is very concerned with European security and believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine, and we also believe that it’s important in the coming years for Europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defense, the threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values — values shared with the United States of America.”
He then went through a litany of specific complaints about the behavior of different European countries. They ranged from failing to control immigration, suppressing free speech, and Brussels seeking to control and define futures of independent countries such as Hungary and Romania.
The leading French newspaper, Le Monde (their equivalent of the New York Times) asserted that the American Vice President was declaring “ideological war on Europe.”
Le Monde was right. The European elites have been decaying for at least two generations. They hide behind their privileged status and take ideological positions that feel good but are destructive. Europe’s failures are devastating for most everyday Europeans.
I have personal knowledge about this. I have a Ph.D. in Modern European History – and I have lived in France, Germany, Belgium and Italy. As a young Army dependent, we were living in France when the French Army came back from Algeria, killed the French Fourth Republic and brought back General Charles de Gaulle to establish the Fifth Republic.
It is now the longest serving non-royal government in French history.
The European elites value each other’s opinions more than they value serving the people of Europe. The European elites live in a fantasy world of green policies that destroy industries and jobs, welfare policies which destroy the work ethic, and immigration policies which undermine the popular culture. They simply hope for a peaceful world without a strong military.
Meanwhile, state enforced speech codes protect Islamic extremists at the expense of local citizens.
The result has been a steady decline of European culture, economic development, and defensive capacity.
The Afghan Islamist who wounded more than two dozen people and killed a mother and her two-year-old daughter with a car two days before the supposed security conference signals the willful avoidance of reality at the heart of the elite European worldview.
To be clear, I admire European civilization. I believe America is far stronger and safer if Europe is healthy and capable of growing and defending itself.
I hope vice president Vance’s intervention at least starts European elites thinking about what must be done to revive their continent.
For more commentary from Newt Gingrich, visit Gingrich360.com. Also subscribe to the Newt’s World podcast.
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