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Historical Cowardice (Appeasement): WWII was not a triumph of democracy, but a victory of appeasement. Populations chose the path of least resistance to avoid acting on existential threats. Post-war, the West avoided learning these lessons through comforting "fairytales."
The "Free Ice Cream" Trap: European politics became a cycle of promising endless benefits (metaphorical "free ice cream") to voters.
Fiscal Malpractice: To pay for the benefits, politicians engaged in profligate borrowing, cynically ensuring the inevitable debt crisis became "someone else's problem" (the next generation).
Political Paralysis: Decades of enabling unrealistic expectations have left the incumbent political class incapable of making the necessary hard decisions now that the money has run out.
Rise of Cynical Populists: Figures like Trump, Orban, and Le Pen step in, offering infantile and vacuous solutions.
Strategy of Blame: Populists distract the entitled electorate ("obese uneducated white people") by blaming all internal systemic failures on "wicked scheming foreigners."
Accelerating Self-Destruction: The rapid rise of ultra-far-right parties (AfD, National Rally) demonstrates voters are acting like "turkeys voting for Christmas," accelerating their own demise.
Establishment Impotence: The old-guard politicians are temperamentally addicted to "studiously avoiding action." They are capable only of "windy speeches" but are politically incapable of taking the meaningful, decisive action required to fight back.