{"id":227718,"date":"2024-01-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/?p=227718"},"modified":"2024-01-22T00:36:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T05:36:03","slug":"world-economic-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/blog\/world-economic-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Economic Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Committed to improving the state of the world?  Who do those people at Davos think they\u2019re fooling?  The only world most of them want to improve is their own!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve read even a few of my journal entries, it should be <\/strong>fairly clear this humble spirit hates Donald Trump and disparage his MAGA \u201cbase\u201d as much as anyone, but. . . if you want to empathize with MAGA grievance real quick, consider the annual \u201cWorld Economic Forum\u201d in Davos, Switzerland.\u00a0 Forget about the \u201ccoastal elites,\u201d the \u201cliberal elites,\u201d the \u201ccosmopolitan elites\u201d and all the other ridiculous boogeymen Trump and his Republican allies have created, the folks who visit Davos every year are the REAL elites, the true \u201cglobalists\u201d\u2014billionaires and centimillionaires, along with corporate chieftains (aka \u201ctitans of industry\u201d), prominent diplomats and other government officials, NGO executives, international journalists, and a collection of assorted \u201cthought leaders\u201d tagging along in exchange for outrageous fees. My apologies if I left anyone out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the risk of sounding like a Fox \u201cNews\u201d host, these are people who fly around the world on private jets, but upon arriving in Davos discuss \u201cclimate transition\u201d and \u201cdecarbonization projects.\u201d Except for the fact that many of the (mostly male) attendees are aging out, their culture and mentality appear remarkably similar to those of a bunch of precocious tech \u201cbros\u201d with no boundaries.  Many of them claim they want to \u201cimprove the state of the world,\u201d (someone\u2019s cautiously scaled-down version of \u201csave the world\u201d), but if that\u2019s true, they might consider not doing the world so much harm in the first place.  They feign passionate concern for humanity, but many are the very people responsible for economic inequality throughout the world.  Vladimir Putin may be the person most responsible for the devastating increase in world hunger these last couple of years (based on reducing Ukraine\u2019s grain shipments), but if the Davos crowd stopped exploiting their own elitist advantage, the state of the world would begin to improve and, in time, fewer people would need saving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As One Pundit So Aptly Described Davos, \u201cIt\u2019s Nothing but a Bunch of Rich People Licking Each Other Up and Down.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Davos crowd is generally opposed to regulation and lobbies for every benefit government can bestow on big business and the wealthy, most especially reducing their tax burden so they can stash even more money in places like the Cayman Islands and Switzerland (they probably visit their money while they\u2019re in Davos).  And here\u2019s where we have the opportunity to relate to our angry, aggrieved MAGA compatriots: above all, the folks at Davos fancy themselves better than everyone else and entitled to their lofty status in the world.  If these people don\u2019t stir up grievance in you, nothing will.  If there\u2019s anything that could unite all but the top 1% of the top 1% of polarized Americans, it\u2019s anger directed at the Davos crowd.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently this year\u2019s attendees generally consider the possibility of Donald Trump\u2019s reelection a \u201cgeopolitical risk\u201d to the world economy and thus a cause for serious concern.  Many of them benefited directly from Trump\u2019s fraudulent \u201cmiddle class\u201d tax cut for the rich, but if Trump allows NATO to collapse and Putin overruns Europe, who\u2019ll be there to protect their global economic interests?  But on the positive side, as Alex Soros, the son of MAGA world\u2019s favorite boogeyman George Soros, said at this year\u2019s forum, \u201cTrump is already the president at Davos, which is a good thing because the Davos consensus is usually wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These People Don\u2019t Care About Democracy or the Lives of Average People; They Just Want Money and Power and Gravitate to Whatever Candidate They Believe is Most Likely to Protect it.<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Committed to improving the state of the world?  Who do those people at Davos think they\u2019re fooling?  The only world most of them want to improve is their own! If you\u2019ve read even a few of my journal entries, it should be fairly clear this humble spirit hates Donald Trump and disparage his MAGA \u201cbase\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227723,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227718\/revisions\/227723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}