Andy Grove, of Intel fame, is famous for "Only the Paranoid Survive", both epithet and book. While a reasonable adage in the micro world of corporations and sectors (not that corporates engage in oligopoly as a matter of course, of course), it's a bad foundation for heads of state. With Putin and his puppet The Donald leading the Western world in thin skinned whininess, we're in for a spiral into totalitarianism. The Donald tweets (will he still be spending his Presidential overnights all thumbs?) angrily about a fourth wall speech at "Hamilton". And now we find today a poll (oversampled against him, of course :):) ) demonstrating our collective revulsion of him.
Oh, and no, Ford didn't not move to Mexico because The Donald interceded. Ford never was going to move that plant to Mexico. The good thing about tweets, from The Donald's point of view, is that they're difficult to fact-check in real time. And how would you get the truth to The Donald's fawners? You see the problem? A congenital liar has the advantage.
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Bob,
As a political scientist of some knowledge and experience, I have been trying to disabuse of another illusion: the trend is not towards democracy but away from it.
Of course, there is never such thing as true democracy in the 1st place, which exists only in blah-blah. But even the quasi ones do not persist--they get corrupted, those who own the society learn how to game the system, ensure education only for their inheritors and kill it for the plebos, distract them with sports and entertainment, deploy make believe propaganda and so on.
So effective is all this that the plebos will excommunicate you if you tell them the truth. Taking away the illusion is like pulling the carpet from under their feet.
Very elegant system.
it will be instructive to see just how many folks, millennials in particular, actually do petition Canada for citizenship. if The Donald's (and his posse's) lunacy accelerates...
I wouldn't hold my breath.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/11/21/the-secretive-brain-trust-of-silicon-valley-insiders-who-are-helping-trump/
See what I mean in my first comment above?
before I clicked, the brain clicked... Thiel. and so it was. German, just like Trump. thin skinned egoist. and so on. birds of a feather, and all that.
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