Democracy does not work. Never did.Democracy is intended to limit power and stop demagoguery. Then populism activated prejudice in the "silent majority" and propaganda promoted ideas that are simply untrue. By gaining democratic agreement with ideas that benefit corporation and the very wealthy, the majority are choosing structural change that does not benefit them because …
Category: Politics
Quality of Conservative Leadership
UK Watching the rise and demise of 4 British Prime Ministers, one has to question why a party, well entrenched in power, could manage to have such catastrophic leadership. Cameron lost the UK to the doomed Brexit, default replacement May failed to reverse this, or enact it, Johnson mismanaged the response to the Pandemic and …
Conflict
Leaders define their country. Democracy is an effort to find leaders who are defined by their country. It sometimes works, not always. Dictators destroy their country. Putin is a complex beast as he pretends to be democratic but killing all those that oppose you is a sign of dictatorship in desperation. Biden is a simple …
Philosophy: Existence of Purpose
The Big Bang may not be well expressed? The difference between the dynamic expanding universe and the starting point of mass, without meaning or form or isolation, is the combination of infinite possibility with the potential of all (the finite) energy. However dramatic the circumstance: it does not bear out if intent or purpose was …
Covid – failures of the Tory Government
Read what Michael Rosen writes about Covid. Feel the rage that the Tory Government not only mishandled the pandemic outbreak deliberately but that the expiring PM Boris Johnson trumpets his achievements. We all got very angry to discover he was lying about his parties during lockdown as his constituents were dying and not even able …
Nuclear Agreement
The members of the Permanent Security Council have agreed to not use Nuclear Weapons as there is no advantage from using them. One hopes that the other four countries that have nuclear weapons also do not use them. See Guardian article Five of the world’s most powerful nations have agreed that “a nuclear war cannot …
US Election
Predictions made in July, how did we do? Predictions Biden will choose Warren or Klobuchar. WRONG: Biden picked Kamala Harris. Trump will go with Pence CORRECT Biden will win the popular vote by about 4 or 5 million CORRECT Biden will win the Electoral College with the usual razor edge calls in Florida but the Southern …
US Election Outcome Calculator
Predict the result with the Electoral College built in, courtesy of the FT. Our prediction based on - well we are guessing - is Trump 234, Biden 304. Assumptions are no Democrat to Republican losses, the states that Trump won with small margins in 2016 return to Democrat, solid red states stay with Trump except …
Devil and the Dark Blue Sea
The political choices faced by the UK at the last election: a socialist utopia that would cause taxes to increase and suppress innovation and progress while looking after those who were unable to look after themselves, or a slogan. The complex algorithms that the Left proposed were hundreds of pages of promises that were perceived …
America needs a new hero
America used to be the bastion of democracy and freedom. No more. The actions of the Republicans are not merely hypocrisy. It is not just politics. It is the destruction of the American ideal, the dream of freedom and progress that inspired the world of the twentieth century after Hitler and Stalin and Mao explored …