Theowl32
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In the USA and UK, representative democracy is steadily degenerating into mobocracy. I strongly feel that 2016 will go down in history as a "point-of-no-return" year, a crossing of the Rubicon. Once proud and stable democracies are in the process of being singularly humiliated before the eyes of authoritarian regimes abroad, the medias of which countries are gladly lapping up the crumbling edifice of Western exceptionalism and self-pride. I should think I'll need to dust off my copy of Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West and give it further consideration.
Its like the French Revolution, Robespierre and the Reign of Terror all over again. Who will be the next so-called "non-establishment figure" for the chopping block? The next effigy to be burnt in the bonfire? Whose read will roll next from the ranting and raving of populist demagogues exploiting the grievances of their devoted masses and inciting them to rioting?
Welcome to the new world order. All I know is there is a club that I do not belong to.
Its like the French Revolution, Robespierre and the Reign of Terror all over again. Who will be the next so-called "non-establishment figure" for the chopping block? The next effigy to be burnt in the bonfire? Whose read will roll next from the ranting and raving of populist demagogues exploiting the grievances of their devoted masses and inciting them to rioting?
Welcome to the new world order. All I know is there is a club that I do not belong to.