the Democracy Buffer

It's actually the West that won't allow us to express healthy criticism of our governments. Mhmm. Because the moment we do that, you seize that as an opportunity to create dissent, division, rebellion, unrest, and so forth. You infiltrate any, legitimate Grievances. Group.

Yeah. And and and any group that has grievances. You immediately infiltrate it. Hijack it. And and hijack it and try to escalate it to the point of overthrowing the government, which is which is not necessarily, most times, not the intention Yeah.

Of an opposition group. Yeah. But but but we can't do it. And then and then and then, the governments themselves have have grown to have a a deep paranoia and suspicion, rightfully so, about any opposition group, any protest movement, or what have you that forms in the Arab world, in the Muslim world, or in the global South generally, because they know perfectly well that the CIA is gonna be there.

Yeah. The any public outcry that's mobilized, you know, by you know, mobilized public outcry is viewed with suspicion and rightly so.

Yeah. You know? Because even if you have even if you have valid grievances Mhmm. And even if you're you're a sincere person and you don't have any desire to create unrest or strife in your society, the CIA won't leave you alone. The NED won't leave you alone.

America won't leave you alone. They will infiltrate your opposition movement, and they will escalate until you have protests and people start getting shot. You know? So on either side, on the side of on the side of grassroots movements, it's not safe to to, have legitimate opposition against your government. And on the side of the government, it's not safe to tolerate Yeah.

Opposition because you created this situation. You won't leave anybody alone. Mhmm. You have to have your you have to have your nose in everybody's business. You have to be stirring up problems everywhere.

Which is why I put, like, you know, when I learned of how the Gulf countries manage these things, you know, you have these private where you interact with representatives of the public over concerns and grievances so that you can directly address them and resolve issues. It doesn't have to be, you know, like, aired for all to, you know, and some great to listen to and then opine. You know? Again, it's not a spectator sports.

Yeah. And this is the funny thing. This is the really ironic thing about all of this is that you have exported to the Muslim world, to the Arab world, this idea of popular protest, street protests, marches, and so on. You exported that idea to us. Well, you're supposed to be a democracy.

Mhmm. In which case, if you have a democracy, what's the need for street protests? You have the vote. You're supposed to have a representative government. You have according to you and and and, everything that you tell us and, and the type of government that you tell us we're supposed to have, you say that you already have it, which means that you have all of these great avenues for the redress of grievances, where the public can be heard, where the people are represented, where the government has the consent of the government, so on and so forth.

So what is the need for protest? But in fact, the reality is that your governments don't represent you, your governments don't listen to you, your governments do ignore you, and the only people that your governments do listen to are the rich. So that you have found out that that is the case in reality, that your democracy doesn't work, that your vote doesn't work, so you found it necessary to go out in the streets and protest to try to get what you want, to try to get listened to. So you taught us, to do the same thing even though our governments are actually more responsive

To be to

to what the people need. Yeah. And in fact, ironically, authoritarian governments, so called authoritarian governments, have a better record of being responsive to the population because, they don't have a buffer to take the blows of unpopularity Mhmm. Which is what which is what democracy gives them. This is what the so called democracy gives them.

It gives the actual powers that are not within the government. It gives them a buffer to take the blows of unpopularity Mhmm. Which is the so called elected politicians

Yeah.

Who I've always referred to as nothing but effigies because their whole job is to get elected into government to take the blame for the policies that the rich are dictating to them, which they know perfectly well are gonna be unpopular with the population, so then the population will take out their anger and frustration on the elected officials Mhmm. And burn them at the state like an effigy, while the elite, the private sector power will be untouched.

Yeah. And you Sorry.

Yeah. But authoritarian governments don't have that buffer. Yeah. Like I like I've said before, and I was saying in the chat, at least we, in the Muslim world, know who our rulers are. We know perfectly well who our actual rulers are.

You in The States, you in the West, you in UK, Europe, France, wherever, you have no idea who your rulers are. In

other words, who actually represents you and your interests? You have no idea.

No. No one represents you and your

interest. Exactly.

But but I'm saying the ones who make the decisions

Uh-huh.

That deny you your interest

Right.

The ones who make the decisions that rule your life

Yeah. You

you You don't even know who they are. Exactly. I mean, how many times have I had people ask me, who is the OCGFC? Well, that's a shame that you don't know.

Yeah.

That's a shame. You don't know who the rulers are in your country. You don't know who your own oligarchs are. Mhmm. You know?

Because also, even though even even you do know who some of them are because they're famous Mhmm. And you think they're great. They're your they're your idols. They're your heroes because you wanna be like them. You wanna be the next Bill Gates.

You wanna be the next Elon Musk. You wanna be the next Mark Zuckerberg. You wanna be the next Jeff Bezos, not understanding the fact that these are the tyrants that are running your society Mhmm. Among others. You know?

And then it's it's really you you have the the they have an answer for everything, you know. So for for, like, pop the for the popular outcry that when you point out that if you really truly had a democracy, you wouldn't require popular unrest and popular protest, but then you you give it the veneer of you you cloak it you cloak it with the fact that you have freedom of speech, that you you have the, you know, the right to just say what you want in public, and and that's the outfit you're gonna give it to give it to hide the fact that you have no democ you have you actually have no representative government or governance.

Yeah. I mean, you can say you have the you can you can have the right you can have the right to free speech, but does but that's if that is being used as a rationale for why you must allow protests, then you're saying that you're still saying that we don't have a democracy, we still don't have representative government, but we will give you the consolation prize of you get to shout and scream in the street Yeah. About how unfair we are to you. Yes. We will, however, continue to be so.

Yeah. But you're free to express your anger about it, which all that does is is emphasize to you how irrelevant you are Mhmm. And how how how much content the government has for you and how dismissive they are about you. Mhmm. You can talk and you can shout and you can march and you can, fly your banners and you can sloganeer and and all of that as much as you want.

You can even set yourself on fire, but we won't listen to you. Yep. Congratulations on the freedom of speech because the government already has a mute button on their side. They've already got you on mute on their side.