Americans, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, believe they have the “world’s greatest democracy” (whatever that means). What is undoubtedly true is that they have the worst electoral process of any western democracy.
* And establishes electoral boundaries, and decides on voter ID, and sets up polling places, and uses electronic voting, and has no control over election funding.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa….
Every election, everywhere, since politics began, has been invested with a rich mix of hooes and fears. Fears seem to be winning more often, lately.
All over the world, religion and fascism are, separately or together, driving the people of the world collectively insane.
When Rupert Murdoch looks at Donald Trump, and the return of Fascism around the world, and the now irreversible destruction of the planet, is he capable of feeling shame?
I had thought the rule was that America simply hated socialist countries and did its best to destroy them in case people elsewhere might discover that there was an economic alternative to American controlled capitalism in their countries. But that doesn’t explain the hatred of people like Trump and Bolton for Iran. So a more general version of nomdeplume’s rule is that America hates all countries that will not accept its economic, social and cultural hegemony. The Roman and British Empires were the same in their day.
Communism and Capitalism are two apparently different mechanisms for ensuring that the same kinds of people gain power in society.
After seventy-odd (and seventy odd) years of life I keep thinking I have seen and heard all the worst of human stupidity. But then I read something said by a woman in a red cap, or a crackpot fundamentalist (of any religion), or a loopy flat earther, or a mad-brained creationist, or a Dunning-Kruger climate change denier, or a lobster-potted Peterson follower, or an addled anti-vaxxer, and I realise there is absolutely no depth to which human stupidity cannot sink.
One hundred monkeys on one hundred typewriters could create Trump’s speeches.
When fascists
gain power there first
instinct is to destroy the
environment – boost coal
burning, get rid of national
parks and conservation
measures cut down the
Amazon jungle. That will
show the World who’s boss.
