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11-27-2022 #31
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11-27-2022 #32
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Re: The United States 1776-2024, Running on Water
The gloom and doom of the initial post didn’t age well, post 2022 mid-terms.
I suppose it’s more enjoyable for Stavros to talk about Trump - who is already on his way out the door - or Trumpism - which will have a limited lifespan - than it is to talk about Brexit, which has seemingly screwed up the UK for decades, if not indefinitely.
US politics is hard to get your mind around, even for US citizens. Getting all your information filtered through sources like the Guardian or BBC - which are sources I like well enough - and not having the same immersion as a US resident, makes it even harder. I’m not casting any shade, I know I don’t understand the nuances of Parliament, which is why I spend more time listening about it than I do expressing an opinion about it.
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11-27-2022 #33
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Re: The United States 1776-2024, Running on Water
I don't think a lot has changed because of the mid-terms. One of the basic ideas I have advanced has not been affected, namely the trend toward State Autonomy, of the kind that threatens the integrity of the Union. Had there been significant changes in Texas and Florida, then perhaps my thesis would have become redundant, whereas the Autonomists have if anything strengthened their hold on State politics. Moreover, of the Republican-led House spends more time attacking the Biden family and opening investigations into the FBi, DoJ annd others, rather than deaiing with issues like housing and the homeless, would this not maintain their long term aim to discredit the Institutions of the USA on the basis that, that, like the Constitution, they are no longer fit for purpose?
Trump may be on the way out, but the trends he inherited that he took to what people thought was the edge of reason, continue to be the organizing principles of people like Kevin McCarthy, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ron De Santis. If anything, the GOP, of that is what it still is, has become even more extreme since 2020. One notes the creepy similarity between the Christian Nationalists of Russia, with their counterparts in Hungary, France and via MTG, the House of Representatives, with the real prospect of military aid to Ukraine being cut or even ended, though I am not sure if the House alone can do this. Nick Fuentes may be the grubby side of anti-Semitism, but fundamental to the Russian project is a deep anti-Semitism that also depicts Western Liberalism and all things LGBTQ+ as an existential threat to Christian life, which is the only life worth having. It could be that the House makes common cause with the Russians, rather than Americans. Another nail in the coffin of American Liberalism.
As for Brexit, there is plenty in the thread I started, and the documentation of business failure keeps on coming, though I have not updated the thread recently. Polls, if you believe them, show a distinct majority think it was a mistake, but the prospect of a break-up of our Union is less secure as our Supreme Court has judged a second Independence Referendum in Scotland cannot be held without Parliamentary approval, so it doesn't seem likely in the next few years though Nicola Sturgeon says the next General Election in Scotland will be, in effect an Independence Referendum. That said, Northern Ireland remains a weak link. If any constituent part of the UK goes first, it is most likely here.
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11-27-2022 #34
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11-27-2022 #35
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Re: The United States 1776-2024, Running on Water
A cardinal point about Brexit, is that while there are faint glimmers of backsliding by Rishii Sunak, both Labour and Conservative parties are committed to it, utterly incapable of admitting Brexit doesn't work, and that they have no way of dealing with failure.
I would suggest it is like arms control in the US -most Americans I believe want military-grade weapons banned, but nobody is going to do it, so from Sandy Hook to Uvalde via Parkland and Las Vegas, the message is simple -America is a country where guns kill people and we will allow people as many guns as they can have. If they kill people of all ages, so what?
Latest Brexit news-
Brexit blow: exports to Japan slump after ‘landmark’ free trade deal | Brexit | The Guardian
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Brexit has made Britain the sick man of Europe again | William Keegan | The Guardian
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11-28-2022 #36
Re: The United States 1776-2024, Running on Water
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11-28-2022 #37
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Re: The United States 1776-2024, Running on Water
I apologize if you feel insulted. On my part I was merely stating a fact, borne out by your absence of any dialogue or debate in threads we have started, contributed to, other than one on Empire which revealed an inability on your part to understand a significant, and not particularly controversial point that I made. I can take as much criticism as there is though one always hopes it is based on the topic of debate. The rest is a matter of style.
Have a nice day.
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12-04-2022 #38
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Re: The United States 1776-2024, Running on Water
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