"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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People in “The West,” which also aligns with the Global North, have sleep-walked into the demise of democracy through complacency, through burying themselves in their life of consumerism, not even considering the functioning of the bigger systems which allow their “Normal” to exist. Meanwhile, the salary-pullers who occupy the social position which should be government, are a total fraud and have demonstrated that they cannot be trusted with public funds. But positions of power are so entrenched that change is an enormous challenge.
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.
We have the best government money can buy, brilliant billionaires, an anesthetized public, and a budding Christian fascist movement to build the future on. Why so glum?
Geoffrey, this is serious! "We" are sleep-walking into catastrophe, in all of N. America and Europe as well, and if this lousy governance system is not remedied THIS YEAR, it may be too late. You can't go on doing the same BS over and over again hoping for a different result, but people fall into the "process" and aspects of "we have always done it like this" so are stuck in the same constitutional and electoral ruts. Going through the Process of a failed election system WILL give a bad result; gliding along in a glorified version of the past, embracing an utterly-failed constitution, all this will end badly. Best to learn some Chinese and Russian, you will soon be taking direction from them.
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.
"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
Thank you for the comment, Robert, and for subscribing!
People in “The West,” which also aligns with the Global North, have sleep-walked into the demise of democracy through complacency, through burying themselves in their life of consumerism, not even considering the functioning of the bigger systems which allow their “Normal” to exist. Meanwhile, the salary-pullers who occupy the social position which should be government, are a total fraud and have demonstrated that they cannot be trusted with public funds. But positions of power are so entrenched that change is an enormous challenge.
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.
We have the best government money can buy, brilliant billionaires, an anesthetized public, and a budding Christian fascist movement to build the future on. Why so glum?
Geoffrey, this is serious! "We" are sleep-walking into catastrophe, in all of N. America and Europe as well, and if this lousy governance system is not remedied THIS YEAR, it may be too late. You can't go on doing the same BS over and over again hoping for a different result, but people fall into the "process" and aspects of "we have always done it like this" so are stuck in the same constitutional and electoral ruts. Going through the Process of a failed election system WILL give a bad result; gliding along in a glorified version of the past, embracing an utterly-failed constitution, all this will end badly. Best to learn some Chinese and Russian, you will soon be taking direction from them.
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.