Hate your system: Why government failure is no accident

The economy isn't collapsing. It's being dismantled. Systematically, precisely, and with the steady hand of a surgeon who knows exactly where to cut – and why. What looks like political failure is method. What feels like incompetence is calculated. And the goal has been clear for years: a people who hate their government so deeply that they welcome any alternative – even one that hasn't yet been officially offered.

The orchestrated decline
Great Britain serves as a better case study than almost any other country because its decline is so demonstratively blatant. Chancellor Rachel Reeves – affectionately dubbed "Comrade Reeves" by observers – presents a picture that can hardly be exaggerated satirically, because reality has already overtaken any satire. Inflation too high? Cut interest rates. National debt exploding? Spend more. Employers fleeing? Tighten regulations. It's the economic policy equivalent of an arsonist anxiously asking for a fire extinguisher.

Over 1,2 million foreign-born people in the UK receive basic social security benefits – and the number is rising. The cost of sick leave amounts to £212 billion annually. A growing proportion of this is generated by diagnoses such as "rejection sensitivity dysphoria" – a condition in which the individual is highly sensitive to criticism or rejection. This self-diagnosis effectively places virtually everyone on Earth in the category of eligible recipients. The British social security system has become arguably the most efficient weaning mechanism ever designed: six million working Britons would be financially better off if they stopped working and instead received state benefits. A system that penalizes work and rewards dependency is not an oversight. It is by design.

String-pullers need chaos
This is where the real analysis begins – and it leads away from the surface of parliamentary embarrassments to the structural question: Cui bono? Who benefits from all this?

Prime Minister Keir Starmer—a man whose career has been a series of shifts in allegiance, bought suits, and institutional cronyism—has accomplished something remarkable with his government: he has continued with genuine enthusiasm the destruction methodically orchestrated by his predecessors. The appointment of the chronically unreliable Peter Mandelson as Britain's ambassador to the US is not a mistake. It is a signal. Anyone who considers Mandelson trustworthy either has no concept of trust—or doesn't need one.

But Starmer is ultimately a supporting actor. The puppet masters who guide his hand have no particular interest in whether he governs well or badly. Chaos, unpredictability, incompetence, and the resulting societal despair are their raw material. A demoralized, economically exhausted populace doesn't ask uncomfortable questions. It simply wants it to stop. And precisely this moment—when a populace "simply wants it to stop"—is the most historically opportune for those who want to offer a solution. A solution that has long been ready and waiting.

The nobility is not weakening its defenses – it is strengthening them.
While the middle class is being squeezed between food prices and heating costs—in a country where energy prices are higher than anywhere else in the world despite low global oil and gas prices—the British royal family is ramping up its efforts. Prince William has established barriers, ditches, police patrols, and a large exclusion zone around his estate—an area three times the size of St. James's Park in London. An environmental education center for children has been closed. Two families have been evicted from their cottages. And all this from a man who publicly lectures on climate protection and social justice.

King Charles, whom one could certainly call "Charles the Hypocrite," has left Buckingham Palace—while the British taxpayer is shelling out over £300 million for its renovation—and now resides in one of his various palaces, mansions, and country estates. At the same time, he jets around the world giving lectures on CO₂ reduction. He has understood that belonging to the architects of the Great Reset doesn't require public membership. One simply has to consistently point in the same direction. And Charles points. Reliably.

It is not insignificant that King Edward VIII was an avowed admirer of Adolf Hitler and abdicated not because of his marriage to an American divorcee, but because his proximity to National Socialism had become too obvious. The British royal family discreetly rebranded its German roots towards the end of the First World War for obvious reasons. The question of current loyalties and alliances therefore arises not as a conspiracy theory, but as a historically plausible consideration of continuity.

Trump, tariffs, and the theater of power
A fair look at the US makes it clear that the problem is not partisan. Donald Trump governs with family members, business associates, and an energy that could be described as entertained. However, the key decisions regarding American foreign and security policy are not made in the Oval Office. Trump is allowed to play with tariffs, stage himself, and profit from the office. The strategic decisions are made elsewhere, by other people. This was the case under Obama, under Biden, and it is no different under Trump. Anyone who considers this an insult to Trump has not understood how power works.

The pattern is global. Whether London, Washington, Berlin, or Brussels – everywhere the same choreography: governments that appear incompetent, a series of scandals, economic data that worsens despite contrary announcements, and an increasingly exhausted population that no longer knows whom to trust. And that's precisely the point.

The era, not the event
Joseph de Maistre wrote after the French Revolution: “For a long time we regarded the revolution as an event. We were wrong: it is an era.” The sentence has lost none of its precision – it has gained.

What is perceived today as a sum of government failure, political incompetence, and economic misfortune is in reality the coherent first act of a much larger transformation. Destabilization is not collateral damage. It is the program. A people who despise their elected representatives to the core, who have completely lost faith in state institutions, and who are operating on the economic edge, is a people who are ready to accept new structures—even ones they never voted for. A supranational governance architecture that redefines democracy as "too slow" and "too prone to error." Efficiency instead of legitimacy. Experts instead of voters. The Great Reset goes by many names—but it has a script and a timetable. And both will be adhered to.

The question is no longer whether the system can be reformed. The question is when enough people will stop mistaking this orchestrated destruction for natural state failure.

Until then, we will continue to watch as the middle class is pulverized, dependency is normalized, and the lack of alternatives is declared the consensus – and in the end, we will be grateful for the solution offered to us because we forgot that those who started the fire are now holding the fire hose!