How The Elites Are Divorcing From Reality: The Economist’s “What If”

The Western globalist elites have not digested Trump’s victory or Brexit yet. They are having a hard time dealing with their ideological failures, and when the reality dares not to comply with their day dreaming, they go online and create a parallel world, where their ‘expert’ predictions always turn right and their failures cannot be questioned.
The Economist’s portal named ‘what if’, a neo-liberal, wishful thinking echo chamber, is the point in case.
Its latest piece attributes magical powers to the new hero of the elites, Emmanuel Macron, who soundly defeated ‘evil’ Marine Le Pen in May. For The Economist, Macron is nothing short of Jesus as he was correspondingly depicted on the monthly’s cover walking on water:
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The hypothetical scenario of Macron’s success is based on magical reforms that will somehow create enormous numbers of jobs after an initial friction and fix the out-of-control state budget. The text provides no answer how exactly all this is going to be done. The happy predictions do not stop there. Macron’s miracle, would turn France into another Silicon Valley, a paradise for start-ups. Does it not make us think back to the internet bubble of the 90s? After ‘making France great again’ and defeating Marion Marchal-Le Pen, Marine’s niece (who for the record has already retired from politics, but don’t tell The Economist, it’d break their narrative, they need an evil antagonist), Macron’s magic would next make Europe great again. Academic papers on the ‘French Renaissance’ are beginning to appear, says the article’s author, an intellectual liberal himself and Macron’s flunky. He speaks of ‘EU-funded military operations in the Sahel’, because clearly that’s what Europe needs most. Why, destabilizing surrounding countries has worked very well so far, hasn’t it? Islamic terrorism isn’t even touched in the article, so we gather it will magically disappear as will the problems of the banlieu which do not deserve much mention either. Here, too, no solution is offered, just pure magic.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Aug 21, 2017.