Telling that you think the country was protected "from" Trump rather than the deep state, itself a vertical institution, betrayed the public by usurping Trump.
Up to that point I was interested in what you had to say. But then you showed your political bias was going to mean I would only see half or less of the truth and never more.
"Democratic control over state power and the creation of a multi-party system after the fashion of “liberal democracies” meant there was at least the possibility of redistribution from the rich to the poor." You've got to be kidding. I live in one of those 'liberal democracies,' and income inequality, corruption, attacks on all institutions of democracy are under massive and escalating attacks from the ruling class. Apparently, you've been drinking the CIA Kool-aid.
Contrary to the BS above, right now people in Russia are living better than people in Europe.
If you went to Russia in the major cities you wouldn't know they are a country at war. Their economy has remained stable and support for their government at war is at 80% approval. They regret their Ukrainian cousins have been taken over by a Nazi government but don't hold ill will against them. However in German businesses are closing and moving to the US for the cheap gas Russia use to deliver that kept their economy humming. No more. The US has caused damage to Germany that will not be recoverable. Russia and BRICS+ are starting a brand new world currency which means US greed for natural resources has backfired badly and permanently.
OK. Well that's depressing and scary. But surely contains somewhere seeds of hope?
Then where?
Don't publish this kind of stuff without laying out at least some sketchy ideas of what can be done to fix things.
Doomsday predictions are ten a penny and overpriced at that.
Similarly paradise round the corner propaganda ain't worth the electronic paper its printed on.
So let's have something that is worth something.
OR: and I think this is quite feasible: an admittance that the economics and the political affairs of mankind are essentially without testable, demonstrable, predictable scientific basis and we're just going to have to 'wait and see'.
Given, of course, that we 'wait and see' whilst doing the obvious: root out thieves and incompetents etc. i.e. manage what we've got in a responsible manner.
Rather than throw up our hands in despair and tacitly allow the dissolution of all or throw up our hands in disgust and do nothing whilst awaiting the coming of the messiah.
It was always doing the best you can with what you've got that brought the apparently fatally stricken ships into port.
Telling that you think the country was protected "from" Trump rather than the deep state, itself a vertical institution, betrayed the public by usurping Trump.
Up to that point I was interested in what you had to say. But then you showed your political bias was going to mean I would only see half or less of the truth and never more.
"Democratic control over state power and the creation of a multi-party system after the fashion of “liberal democracies” meant there was at least the possibility of redistribution from the rich to the poor." You've got to be kidding. I live in one of those 'liberal democracies,' and income inequality, corruption, attacks on all institutions of democracy are under massive and escalating attacks from the ruling class. Apparently, you've been drinking the CIA Kool-aid.
Perhaps this is precisely why the article's author placed "liberal democracies" inside quotation marks.
We can hope.
Contrary to the BS above, right now people in Russia are living better than people in Europe.
If you went to Russia in the major cities you wouldn't know they are a country at war. Their economy has remained stable and support for their government at war is at 80% approval. They regret their Ukrainian cousins have been taken over by a Nazi government but don't hold ill will against them. However in German businesses are closing and moving to the US for the cheap gas Russia use to deliver that kept their economy humming. No more. The US has caused damage to Germany that will not be recoverable. Russia and BRICS+ are starting a brand new world currency which means US greed for natural resources has backfired badly and permanently.
OK. Well that's depressing and scary. But surely contains somewhere seeds of hope?
Then where?
Don't publish this kind of stuff without laying out at least some sketchy ideas of what can be done to fix things.
Doomsday predictions are ten a penny and overpriced at that.
Similarly paradise round the corner propaganda ain't worth the electronic paper its printed on.
So let's have something that is worth something.
OR: and I think this is quite feasible: an admittance that the economics and the political affairs of mankind are essentially without testable, demonstrable, predictable scientific basis and we're just going to have to 'wait and see'.
Given, of course, that we 'wait and see' whilst doing the obvious: root out thieves and incompetents etc. i.e. manage what we've got in a responsible manner.
Rather than throw up our hands in despair and tacitly allow the dissolution of all or throw up our hands in disgust and do nothing whilst awaiting the coming of the messiah.
It was always doing the best you can with what you've got that brought the apparently fatally stricken ships into port.
Very insightful - as ever.