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Mopping up minorities to provide a majority of votes will lead to instability:
1. Placing minorities on a pedestal when a whole country is hurting will cause discord, or
2. Throwing those promised minorities aside, once victory is achieved, will fester distrust.
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Mopping up minorities to provide a majority of votes will lead to instability:
1. Placing minorities on a pedestal when a whole country is hurting will cause discord, or
2. Throwing those promised minorities aside, once victory is achieved, will fester distrust.
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Embracing identity politics isn't a stable way to govern, particularly in the US where ideologies tend to attract extremism at the best of times.
The US have voted in a gerontocracy, trying desperately to be modern, but they've totally misread the mood of the nation.
Embracing identity politics isn't a stable way to govern, particularly in the US where ideologies tend to attract extremism at the best of times.
The US have voted in a gerontocracy, trying desperately to be modern, but they've totally misread the mood of the nation.
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Yesterday was weird. It showed a US government terrified of facing its people. An avenue of flags instead of an audience.
No matter how the press big it up, it was all strange & synthetic.
Yesterday was weird. It showed a US government terrified of facing its people. An avenue of flags instead of an audience.
No matter how the press big it up, it was all strange & synthetic.
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I found the swiftness of Biden's move to rejoin the WHO odd too. This is the organisation that repeated China's assertion of no human to human transmission of the novel Coronavirus (Covid 19). The WHO have offices in Beijing - they must have known a pandemic was unfolding.
I found the swiftness of Biden's move to rejoin the WHO odd too. This is the organisation that repeated China's assertion of no human to human transmission of the novel Coronavirus (Covid 19). The WHO have offices in Beijing - they must have known a pandemic was unfolding.
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If they claim they didn't know, well what's the point in the organisation existing?
The US have lost 200,000 citizens to Covid, yet the eagerness to rejoin a negligent WHO must have slapped 200,000 bereft families in the face.
If they claim they didn't know, well what's the point in the organisation existing?
The US have lost 200,000 citizens to Covid, yet the eagerness to rejoin a negligent WHO must have slapped 200,000 bereft families in the face.
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The new administration seem desperate to return to pre 2016 status quo, yet seem impervious to the simple fact that Trump's presidency came about due to a general dissatisfaction with that status quo.
The new administration seem desperate to return to pre 2016 status quo, yet seem impervious to the simple fact that Trump's presidency came about due to a general dissatisfaction with that status quo.
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A government has to govern according to its time. Coming out of a pandemic the economy should be its utmost priority, not the tasteless, self congratulatory nonsense we witnessed yesterday.
A government has to govern according to its time. Coming out of a pandemic the economy should be its utmost priority, not the tasteless, self congratulatory nonsense we witnessed yesterday.
