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jaxexpat

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3. Re: Democracy, imposing one-size-fits-all comprehension benefits only elite insiders.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Jan 10, 2023, 07:47 AM

Jan 2023

It's one of the mechanisms wherein MAGA and Tea partiers assume control they don't have or understand and end up with leadership they grow to hate. It applies to South America as well as North America. For instance: Nixon's and Reagan's comprehension of world politics is a textbook example of the damage such a blindered world view can wreak upon our American neighbors. I give you the 118th congress, Bolsonaro in exile with TFG and Peruvian anti-fascists fighting and (pretty soon) dying in their streets.

It could well be that a world where a single national entity which possesses unchallengeable military superiority is not a good thing after all. Whoda thunkit?

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For anyone patient enough to look for the truth behind Peru's current protests...... [View all] Judi Lynn Jan 2023 OP

+1 Recced Tetrachloride Jan 2023 #1

Thank you BumRushDaShow Jan 2023 #2

Re: Democracy, imposing one-size-fits-all comprehension benefits only elite insiders. jaxexpat Jan 2023 #3

TY for the clarification. Six presidents in five years, I hope they succeed with appalachiablue Jan 2023 #4