People Power

The first round in the French presidential election this past weekend confirmed and echoed people’s voices globally. We The People are fed up and done with the old world order political and economic establishment. The two finalists in the French presidential election on May 7, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, are political outsiders who have never been elected to any office, let alone the presidency – the highest office in the land. The same office political outsider President Donald Trump holds.

Establishment politicians Prime Minister David Cameron and Prime Minister Mateo Renzi resigned because of referendums they launched and backed that people did not support.

Even Germany, where a crucial parliamentary election takes place in September, is shaping up to be a test for establishment politician Chancellor Angela Merkel. The nationalist Alternative for Germany, which performed strongly in last year’s regional elections, is expected to become the first far-right party to enter Germany’s parliament since 1945.

The political shock waves from Britain’s June 23, 2016 Brexit Referendum, U.S. November 8, 2016 presidential election, Italy’s December 4 proposed constitutional Referendum, to France’s April 23 first round presidential election have highlighted People Power and anger at the elite-establishment.

People Power-Populism, by definition, is a reaction against establishment politics and institutions. Social media has bonded like-minded people and enabled them to bypass the political establishment who excluded them and protected themselves by funding and electing politicians who continually pass self-serving laws that benefit the ruling class at the expense of the people-at-large. The establishment rigged corrupt political systems that career politicians perpetuated for their elite financial benefactors is coming to an end because people now have access to the facts and share their miserable life experiences, bond, unite and fight patriotically the only way they can for their fair share. Street protests and the ballot box.

There is a seismic-sea change taking place in the New World Disorder that the political and economic establishment cannot, or does not want to, understand – People Power. The time they do is long overdue.