The ‘Great Reset’ is very real and a grave threat to democracy
Not every global conspiracy of wealthy elites bent on world domination has its own publicly available website. But the Great Reset, proposed by members of the World Economic Forum, is an exception. Complete with a published list of co-conspirators (including Amazon, Google, Huawei Technologies, Saudi Aramco, and Volkswagen), the Great Reset launched in June 2020 with a mission statement that reads as follows (emphases are mine):
When the World Economic Forum talks about “leaders” and their “expertise” they are not talking about the democratically elected leaders of sovereign nations. They are talking about the officers of the global corporations that make up “the Forum’s communities.”
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When they talk about “fundamentally changing the traditional context for decision-making,” they are not talking about giving more power to voters and their democratically elected representatives. They are talking about empowering unelected government bureaucracies that will work in partnership with corporations to enact global policies which enrich corporations and impoverish the middle class.
Take the World Economic Forum’s campaign to push global environmental, social, and governance investment rules on financial institutions worldwide. The strategy here is to take all the most painful and unpopular policies that the far Left wants to enact (like ending fossil fuel development) and transfer the responsibility for enacting those policies to faceless regulators and investors.
President Joe Biden brought this closer to reality when he directed the Department of Labor to force investment managers to use ESG guidelines when making their investment decisions. He also directed the Securities and Exchange Commission to develop rules forcing American corporations to adopt ESG reporting requirements.
In neither case did Biden issue a new regulation that specifically cuts fossil fuel use, but the intent and outcome of these regulatory moves will accomplish exactly that. By forcing ESG guidelines on corporations and investment institutions, Biden and the ESG movement are choking off the investments needed to bring fossil fuels to market. The result is higher energy prices that hurt poor and middle-class families the most. The woke consulting, accounting, and legal firms that implement these rules all make out like bandits.
A new book published earlier this week, Against the Great Reset, documents the intellectual origins of the Great Reset, details how global elites are conspiring to make them richer and us poorer, and also explains how we can take power back from global corporations and unelected government bureaucrats.
Edited by New York Times bestselling author Michael Walsh, Against the Great Reset features 18 essays about different aspects of the Great Reset including, Victor Davis Hanson on the goals of the Great Reset, Roger Kimball on sovereignty and the nation-state, Michael Anton on socialism, John Tierney on America’s botched COVID response, and James Poulos on the role of Big Tech.
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In his essay painting the COVID lockdowns as a “trial run” for the Great Reset, Tierney writes:
“The Great Reset will be more of the same,” he adds.
Unless we stop it, it absolutely will.
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