New Rasputin: How mysticism in politics sets a global trend and what is Trump here

He explains that he goes to swim to demonstrate his faith and his rejection of science, technology, modernity. "I don't need Facebook, I don't need the Internet, I don't need no one. I only need my heart," he says. Swimming the lake, it seems without worrying about the cold, he continues: "I trust my immune system, because I fully trust and believe in its creator, in God. My immunity is part of my creature sovereignty.

" This is Cellene Georgesska, a person who shocked his compatriots, defeating the first round of the presidential election in Romania on November 24, despite the fact that she almost did not register in public opinion polls and conducted his campaign almost completely on TikTok, where the rules of the platform were allegedly intended for restriction Or the regulation of political messages seems to have not restrained it.

On the contrary, he used tactics used by many influential people on social networks to attract the attention of the TikTok algorithm. Sometimes he added soft, melancholy piano music, urging people to "vote in their soul. " Sometimes he used popup subtitles, sharp lighting, fluorescent colors and electronic music, calling for "national revival" and criticizing secret forces that allegedly trying to harm the Romanians. "The order to destroy our jobs came from the outside," he says in one video.

Otherwise, he talks about "subconscious messages" and control over thoughts, his voice is accompanied by images of a hand holding a puppet thread. Over 1 million views have gained these videos for the election months. In other works, this mystic of modern times, which has a positive appearance, praises Ion Antonescu, a Romanian dictator of the war, which came into plot with Hitler and was sentenced to death for war crimes, including his role in the Romanian Holocaust.

He called Antonescu and the pre -war leader of the Iron Guard, a cruel anti -Semitic movement, national heroes. He met with Alexander Dugin twice, an ideologist of Russian fascism, who posted on the site X's statement (subsequently removed) that "Romania will be part of Russia. " At the same time, Georgezka magnifies the spiritual properties of water. "We do not know what water is," he says; "H₂o means nothing.

" And again: "Water has a memory, and we destroy her soul with contamination" and "water is alive and sends us a message, but we do not know how to listen to them. " He believes that carbonated beverages contain nanochip that "enter you as a laptop. " His wife, Cristel, releases healing videos on YouTube, using terms such as lymphatic acidosis and calcium metabolism to convey his point of view.

Both also stand for "peace" - a vague goal that seems to mean that Romania, which borders with Ukraine and Moldova, should stop helping Ukraine to defend themselves from Russian invaders. "War cannot be won by war," Cristel Georgescu wrote on Instagram a few weeks before the voting begins. "The war not only destroys physically, it destroys hearts.

" Neither she nor her husband mention the threats of Romania's safety, which will grow in geometric progression after Russia's victory in Ukraine, as well as economic costs, refugee crisis and political instability that follow.

It is noteworthy that, although Cellein Georgersk argues that he did not spend money on this campaign, the Romanian government states that someone illegally paid Tiktok users hundreds of thousands of dollars for promoting Georghesk and that unknown foreign coordinated the activities of tens of thousands of false accounts, including some. themselves for government agencies that supported it.

Hackers, probably Russian, also performed more than 85,000 cyberattacks for Romania's election infrastructure. On December 6, in response to the findings of the Romanian government on the "aggressive" Russian attacks and violations of Romanian electoral legislation, the Constitutional Court of Romania abolished the elections and canceled the results of the first round.

In view of this strange combination, the nostalgia of the Iron Guard and Russian trolls, as well as nonsense about health, which is most often associated with Gwineth Poltrow - who exactly are Georges? How to classify them? Although tempting them to call them "far -right", this old -fashioned terminology does not accurately reflect who or what they represent.

The terms "right" and "left" came since the French Revolution, when the nobles who sought to maintain the status quo sat on the right side of the national assembly, and the revolutionaries who wanted democratic changes were on the left. These definitions began to bring us decades ago when some of the right ones, both in Europe and in North America, began to act not for caution and conservatism, but for the destruction of existing democratic institutions.

In their new embodiment, the far -right began to resemble the old ultra. In some places, they began to merge. When in 2017 I first wrote about the need for new political terminology, I was difficult to come up with more suitable terms. But now the outlines of the popular political movement are becoming more clearer, and this movement is absolutely unrelated to either the right or the left, which we know them.

The philosophers of the Enlightenment era, whose belief in the possibility of creating legal democratic states led to the American and French revolutions, opposed what they called customism: darkness, ambiguity, irrationality. But the prophets of what we can now call "new dreams", offer exactly this: magical decisions, aura of spirituality, prejudice and cultivation of fear.

Among them are charlatans from health and influential people with political ambitions, supporters of Qanon quasi -religious movement and its branches like Pizzagate, as well as members of various political parties throughout Europe, which stand for Russia and against vaccines, and in some cases. mystical nationalism. Strange coincidences are observed everywhere.

Both left German politician Sarah Wagenknecht and the right party "Alternative for Germany" promote skepticism on vaccines and climate change, nationalism "blood and land" and the refusal of Germany to support Ukraine. Throughout Central Europe, the capture of runes and folk magic is combined with both right xenophobia and left paganism. Spiritual leaders become politicians, and politicians go into occultism.

Tucker Carlson, former FOX News presenter, who became an apologetic of Russian aggression, claims that he was attacked by a demon who had left the traces of claws on his body. The new shoompism has now touched the highest levels of American politics. Both foreigners and Americans can hardly explain the ideology, which are represented by some of Donald Trump's first appointments in the Cabinet of Ministers, and there are good reasons.

Although Trump won the re -election as a Republican, there was nothing traditionally "Republican" in the proposal of Tulsi Gabbard as a director of national intelligence. Gabbard is a former progressive democrat, all his life is associated with the Foundation for Identity Science, which has been broken away from the Hare Krishna sect.

Like Carlson, she is an apologette for the brutal Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and a recently fallen dictator of Syria Bashar al -Assad, whose fantastic lies she sometimes repeats. There is nothing "conservative" in the porridge, Patali, Trump's candidate for the post of FBI Director, who stated that he intends to go on a long list of current and former government officials, including many of those who served in Trump's first administration.

Following the spirit of "new shoomps", the puffy also promotes Warrior Essentials, which sells antidotes to both Covid and Covid vaccines. No one who seriously perceive the philosophy of Edmund Berko or William F. Bakli Jr. , would not put such a conspirator such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -another Putin apologist, a former democrat (indeed, with the most pronounced democratic family) And the enemy of the vaccines, as well as fluorine, headed by American health care.

No "conservative" defender of traditional family values ​​would be offered to the post of ambassador to France a convicted criminal who sent a prostitute to seduce her sister's husband to create a compromising entry - especially if this convicted criminal was the father of the presidential son -in -law. Instead of conservatism, this crowd and its international colleagues are a fusion of several trends that have been active for some time.

Traders of vitamin supplements and unverified medicines from Covid are now mixed - not by chance - with open fans of Putin Russia, especially with those who mistakenly believe that Putin heads a "white Christian nation". (In fact, Russia is multicultural, multiple and generally non -religious; its trolls promote skepticism against vaccines, as well as a lie about Ukraine).

Fans of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban-a small car crash, in which the country became one of the poorest in Europe, and he himself enriched his family and friends-unite with Americans who violated the law, got to prison , stole in their charitable foundations or sought women. And not surprising: in a world where conspiracies and meaningless medicines are widespread, the concept of guilt and crime is rapidly disappearing and evidence.

Among the followers of this new political movement are some of the poorest Americans. Among his supporters are some of the wealthiest. George O'nil Jr. , a Rockefeller heir, a member of the board of directors of The American Conservital magazine, appeared in Mar-A-Gla after the elections; O'Neil, who was a close contact with Maria Butina, Russian agent, deported in 2019, promoted Hubbard since 2017, sacrificing her 2020 Presidential Campaign, as well as Kennedy's campaign in 2024.

Ilon Musk, a billionaire-inventor who used his social media apparatus X to algorithmically submit stories that he knows exactly, is false, managed to knock out a role in the government. Is O'Neil, Musk and cryptocurrency dealers that lean to Trump do it for money? Do they really believe in conspiratorial and sometimes anti -American ideas they proclaim? One thing perhaps, perhaps the other, perhaps both.

Whether their cynical motives or sincere are not as important as their influence not only in the United States but all over the world. For better or worse, America gives examples imitated by others. Only by announcing his intention to nominate Kennedy to his office, Trump ensured the spread of skepticism against children's vaccines around the world, which may be the diseases themselves. And the epidemic, as we recently learned, usually make people be scared and make magical decisions.

Other civilizations were experiencing moments similar to that. When their empire began to decline in the sixteenth century, the Venetians began to turn to magic and look for quick ways to get rich. Mysticism and occultism spread rapidly during the decline of the Russian Empire. The peasant sects promoted exotic beliefs and practices, including antimatalism, self -indulgence and self -recession. The aristocrats in Moscow and St.

Petersburg appealed to theosophy-the mishes of world religions, whose inventor, native of Russia, Olena Blavatsk, brought her Hindu-Buddhist-Khristian-Christian-neoplatonic doctrine to the United States. The same feverish, emotional atmosphere that gave rise to these movements eventually led Rasputin, a peasant saint, who argued that he possesses magical healing abilities in the Imperial Palace.

Convincing Empress Alexander that he could cure her son's hemophilia, he eventually became the political advisor of the king. The influence of Rasputin, in particular, gave rise to something like a wide hysteria. By the beginning of the First World War, many Russians were convinced that the country was secretly managing the dark forces - dark souls. "They could be different people - Jews, Germans, Masons, Alexandra, Rasputin and Court Camarily," writes Douglas Smith, one of Rasputin's biographers.

"But the faith was accepted that they were the real owners of Russia. " As one Russian theosofa said: "Enemies that poison Russia with negative emanations really exist. " Replace the "dark forces" with a "deep state" and how is this story different from ours? Like the Russians in 1917, we live in an era of rapid, sometimes unconscious changes: economic, political, demographic, educational, social and, above all, information.

We also exist in constant cacophony, where on our screens are constantly flashing messages, right and left, true and false. Traditional religions are experiencing long decline. Attracted institutes seem to be collapsed. Technooptimism gave way to techno -flossimism - fear that technologies now control us in an incomprehensible way. And in the hands of "new dreams" that actively promote fear of illness, fear of nuclear war, fear of death, fear and anxiety are a powerful weapon.

For Americans, pseudo -spirituality with politics is a departure from some of our deepest principles: logic and reason lead to a good government; Facts based debates lead to good policy; Management thrives for sunlight; The political order is based on rules, laws and processes, not on mystical charisma. Proponents of new shoomping also broke with the ideals of the founders of America, who all considered themselves people of the Enlightenment.

Benjamin Franklin was not only a political thinker, but also a scientist and a bold defender of smallpox vaccinations. George Washington was meticulous in abandonment of the monarchy, restricting the authorities of the executive and establishing the rule of law. Later American leaders - Lincoln, Roosevelt, King - cited the constitution and its authors to support their own arguments.

In contrast, the growing international elite creates something else: a society in which prejudices overcome reason and logic, transparency disappears, and the vile actions of political leaders are hidden behind a cloud of nonsense and distraction. There are no restraints and balances in a world where only charisma is important, there is no rule of law in the world where emotions win the mind-only a void that anyone who has a shocking and exciting story can fill.