Across the globe, a tectonic shift is underway — a groundswell of popular protest that, despite its size and significance, receives little more than a whisper in mainstream media coverage. What began with Dutch farmers in 2019 and Canadian truckers in 2022 has now evolved into a broader working-class revolt that continues to reshape the political landscape of 2025. In the Netherlands, tens of thousands of farmers marched against government policies threatening to decimate their industry. In Canada, truckers found their bank accounts frozen and their fundraising restricted, their resistance against government mandates met not with debate, but with financial punishment. Sri Lanka saw its government overthrown when utopian plans for organic transformation collided with stark reality and public outrage.
These are not isolated incidents, but symptoms of a broader revolt against the ambitions of a global elite pushing environmental and economic agendas that increasingly come at the expense of ordinary people. As we enter the final months of 2025, this pattern has only intensified. Anti-immigration demonstrations have become regular occurrences in the UK, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Germany, revealing deep fractures in European societies. What we are witnessing is a new kind of class conflict, this time not defined by traditional Left-vs-Right debates, but by a struggle between a managerial elite and the lower-middle and working classes.
Today, four groups drive this dynamic: activists consumed by apocalyptic visions and overrepresented in media, politics, and academia; politicians eager to virtue signal for social approval, especially on platforms like Twitter; corporations pandering to fashionable trends for profit, regardless of genuine conviction; and finally, the silent majority — those who pay their taxes and want to lead peaceful lives, yet find their world increasingly encroached upon by top-down directives.
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