QED 108: the euro and the compression of democracy
The news is this :
and it is a QED because here we have always warned against an obvious fact of nature when the work to compress democracy was still underway:
( here ) also trying to involve those who, in the defense of the latter, had made money by remaking their virginity (for example here ).
The compression of democracy is a logical consequence of the compression of wages (i.e. of the euro) because wages are the remuneration of the majority. Point.
In short, the Euro and democracy would only be compatible if we voted in the minority, as the PD trolls who during the pandemic were asking us to bring down the Government pretended to believe, and as the idiots who went after them sowing defeatism genuinely believed.
But (for now) we vote by majority.
You might ask: but why if wages were compressed in Germany in 2004, the repressive reaction only becomes apparent in 2025. The answer is complex and I believe instructive for us too, and consists of at least three pieces.
The first aspect is that, as we have always said, wage compression is less perceptible if wages are relatively high in the country that implements it, as was the case in Germany, even more so if it is accompanied by support policies financed in derogation of European rules (the famous violation of European rules by Germany which we talked about here ). It therefore took some time for German citizens to become aware and give life to a political movement to challenge the established order.
The second aspect is that for a full awareness of the dead end in which the mercantilist policies of previous governments had placed their country to spread among German citizens, the sawn branch probably needed to crash, dragging them into recession. We cannot expect from German citizens what we have not been able to do ourselves: worry about the irrationality of a system when it affects others, for example the Greeks. But since it hit them, German citizens have voted massively for the AfD: a party that is very clear that the euro is a problem, even if, of course, it interprets this problem in its own way, which is not necessarily ours.
The third aspect is that the general test of totalitarianism that was the pandemic, although not unpredictable and not particularly astonishing for those who had seen it coming here, highlighting the theme of scientism years before it manifested itself in all its virulence, undoubtedly had the effect of opening a gigantic Overton window. Such interference in the democratic process of a country by a supranational institution would have seemed inconceivable in the 1990s, but perhaps also in the 1910s, while today, after they have locked us all in, after the State has shown its authoritarian face, for good or bad reasons, we have somehow become accustomed to it, we tend to consider a similar outcome more normal.
But is it normal?
Obviously not.
And can it work?
As long as the forms of democracy are maintained, as long as there is an attempt to save appearances, obviously not, because if the citizens understand that to change the situation they must bring the anti-system party to 67%, one way or another they will bring it there, or they will try to do so, eliciting ever more explicit repressive responses, until the abolition of elections in defense of democracy (which is a bit like carrying out austerity policies to encourage growth or equipping oneself with a strong currency in defense of exports, if you think about it…). The most advanced voters, i.e. those of the country where the resistance began first, i.e. you, know that this is a necessary but not sufficient condition, they know that there is much more to do and build for an alternative to be realised, but the consensus of the majority of voters, i.e. the consensus of those damaged by the system, remains an essential element (as long as we want to maintain free elections).
You understand well that I am taking into account that one day the usefulness of free elections may be contested. At that point it will obviously be impossible to publicly challenge the rationality of the system in which we are immersed. For the moment perhaps it still is, and so enjoy, with this inevitable QED, a beautiful sunny day.
It could be worse… It could rain!
Oh, and the glass half full? There's that too! Once the elections are suppressed, we will no longer have to put up with not so much their propaganda (which today is already on unified networks), but rather their trolls, because when we can no longer vote it will no longer be necessary to convince people that voting is useless!
(… if what's happening in Germany doesn't make you understand what's the point …)
This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2025/05/qed-108-leuro-e-la-compressione-della.html on Sat, 03 May 2025 07:57:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.