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Robert Billyard's avatar

"The way out of this mess, to realign the arc of history, requires totally correcting the poor systems of governance as regards national constitutional law and United Nations governance as well as certifying that unfit candidates are barred from public office." -- TOTALLY AGREE!

I have watched the incremental collapse of Western governments for the last fifty years and it is painful to watch and now it is at point of culmination. Our choice is stark, a long dark dismal age or reformation.

Ignatieff's article is dated in that they are ready strongly united in a permanent alliance beneficial to both. America's hegemony is gone and those two countries are playing the waiting game while the west destroys itself. Neither want war, they know war is for losers

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Geoffrey Deihl's avatar

Yes, I am well-aware of how serious. We have an aspiring dictator on one hand partnered with fundamentalist Christians who don't believe climate change is an issue, and an incumbent that has been backing genocide in Gaza with the fact 92 percent of the weapons used, we sold to him. Said incumbent passed weak climate change legislation, weakened by the deniers, but himself approved drilling in Alaska and just recently "paused" even deadlier LNG terminals in the Gulf. If he is reelected, I doubt that will hold, and certainly Trump will move forward on it. The country is flirting with civil war, and increasing events from the climate crisis threaten to take down economies all over the world. These circumstances are ripe for totalitarian rule.

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