Image by borisbelenky, via stock.adobe.com
CV NEWS FEED // Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, PhD, stated that his experience attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2024 confirmed that “elites” across the world are losing power.
“I can truly say that I’ve never been more hopeful about the future of democracy,” the conservative Catholic academic leader wrote in a Tuesday commentary piece for The Daily Signal – his organization’s media outlet.
He called the “elites” who spoke at the mid-January meeting in Davos, Switzerland “profoundly unimpressive.” He referred to speeches by United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Premier Li Qiang, and WEF founder Klaus Schwab.
“For 72 hours, I watched speakers who supposed themselves to be the most powerful people in the world fret about a ‘trust’ they knew they’d lost and wouldn’t get back,” Roberts reported.
He pointed out that despite the speakers’ titles and positions, “few had started a successful company, taken a real risk, or even won an election.”
“These were the managerial elite,” he noted. [T]he mediocre technocrats who held the real power in communist and leftist regimes alike.”
Roberts indicated that everyday people in the United States and the rest of the world are “seeing through the façade” presented by the WEF:
We know the Davoisie don’t want to “rebuild trust”—they want to control our lives. And more importantly, we know they only have as much power as we give them.
They’re old. They’re tired. They’re scared. And they should be. Their time is up. That’s what I told them, right to their faces.
“I’ll be candid here because I think I was invited here to be candid,” Roberts said while speaking on a panel at the meeting titled “What to Expect from a Possible Republican Administration?”
He detailed five issues where “elites” and average Americans are completely at odds.
“Elites tell us that open borders and even illegal immigration are okay,” stated Roberts. “The average person tells us in the United States that both rob them of the American way of life.”
“Elites also tell us that public safety isn’t a problem in big American cities,” he went on:
Just travel to New York, or Washington, [D.C.], or Dallas, Texas. The average person will tell you that the lack of public safety damages not just the American way of life but their life.
>> POLL: ELITES THINK AMERICANS HAVE ‘TOO MUCH FREEDOM’ <<
“Elites tell us we have this existential crisis with so-called climate change,” Roberts continued. “The solutions, the average person know[s], cost more human lives … than do the … problems themselves.”
He blasted Communist China “as the number-one adversary not just to the United States, but to free people on planet earth.”
“Not only do we at Davos not say that, we give the [CCP] a platform,” he pointed out.
Lastly, Roberts spoke about the World Health Organization’s (WHO) proposal to push gender ideology on the people of developing nations.
“The new president, especially if it’s President Trump, will, as you like to say, ‘trust the science,’” he added:
He will understand the basic biological reality of manhood and womanhood. And do you know why?
Not because of retribution. Not because he’s a dictator. But because he has the power of the American people behind him.
>> CRITICS BLAST WHO FOR PUSHING GLOBAL ‘PANDEMIC TREATY’ <<
On an “Our Mission” page of its website, the WEF states that it “engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.”
The over-50-year-old non-governmental organization (NGO) claims that it “is independent, impartial and not tied to any special interests.”
Schwab, now 85, has served as the WEF’s chairman for its entire existence.
“Together, the American people possess more talent, drive, courage, and honesty than the managerial elite represented at Davos and in Washington, D.C.,” Roberts concluded in his Signal piece. “All we need to do is refuse to ‘rebuild trust’ with those who don’t deserve it and choose to ‘live not by lies.’”
Readers can find Roberts’ full commentary on his WEF experience here.
