Analysis: In democracies' chaos, new model emerges

AP ^ | December 14, 2018 | Niko Price

[gattaca]

LONDON (AP)

[tet68]

I’m sorry, I don’t know which Donald Trump he’s
talking about. The one I know has done exactly what
I voted him in to do.

[gattaca]

I notice he keeps using the term democracy. We have (or had) a representative republic.

[Fiddlstix]

DITTO!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Let’s back up a decade, to when the Ponzi scheme of low-deposit, high-risk mortgages brought the global financial system to its knees.

That's not what caused the collapse.

"Bundling" them and selling them as blue-chip securities is what caused the collapse.

[Jim Robinson]

Author is an idiot. Trump was elected to stop America’s slide into the globalist/socialist abyss. Long live the Republic!

[posterchild]

Same here, though it’s hard to take an author seriously when he uses ‘broke the internet.’

[central_va]

Where’s the barf alert?

[elteemike]

A thousand times...Amen!

[Cicero]

What else can you expect from AP, AKA Broken News.

[gattaca]

Sorry, forgot that. I always enjoy the comments from people here on FR who are smarter than myself!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Intrusive governments, uncontrolled migration, global redistribution of wealth (global warming), cultural rot, and abandoning faith in God.

This won’t end well.

[SaveFerris]

[mrsmith]

Nothing new under the sun...
From 500(?) BC:
Herocotus

” [Darius speaking] ...in oligarchies, where men vie with each other in the service of thecommonwealth, fierce enmities are apt to arise between man and man, each wishing to beleader, and to carry his own measures; whence violent quarrels come, which lead to openstrife, often ending in bloodshed. Then monarchy is sure to follow; and this too shows howfar that rule surpasses all others.

Again, in a democracy, it is impossible but that there will be malpractices: thesemalpractices, however, do not lead to enmities, but to close friendships, which are formedamong those engaged in them, who must hold well together to carry on their villainies. Andso things go on until a man stands forth as champion of the commonalty, and puts down theevil-doers. Straightway the author of so great a service is admired by all, and from beingadmired soon comes to be appointed king; so that here too it is plain that monarchy is thebest government. Lastly, to sum up all in a word, whence, I ask, was it that we got thefreedom which we enjoy? Did democracy give it us, or oligarchy, or a monarch? As a singleman recovered our freedom for us, my sentence is that we keep to the rule of one. “
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/herodotus-persdemo.asp
(It’s all an excellent read!)

“them, who must hold well together to carry on their villainies” put in Obama, and Trump is the counterforce that arose from our Founders’ wise construction of our Constitution.

[outofsalt]

I believe AP articles are supposed to be excerpts only.
Good post but, them’s THE RULES

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[gattaca]

I wondered about that, so I hit preview first. Usually a message comes up that the source is excerpts only. Don’t usually post AP stuff, but I like to read other people’s comments.

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . candidates are winning elections despite — or perhaps because of — statements and actions so politically incorrect that until recently they would have guaranteed defeat."

What the author does not admit is that these ideas only recently became "politically incorrect," and that prior to the past ten or fifteen years most of these "politically incorrect" ideas were mainstream.

What ideas? Protecting our borders and preserving national sovereignty; preserving and growing the middle class; restricting marriage to male and female; believing that male and female are biological realities, not personal preferences; the right to self-defense; the idea that you don't ridicule people because of their ethnicity or gender or age (an idea rejected by the "white-privilege" movement); the idea that the press has an obligation to truth, not partisan politics; the rule of law, and its equal application; rule by our elected leaders, not unaccountable bureaucracies, foreign or domestic; the idea that judges should rule based on the law, not their own bias and preferences; and the idea that the mingling of cultures can spread good ideas, and that this mingling is not a sin called "cultural appropriation."

[Steve_Seattle]

Re: Globalism image.

Great graphic!

[outofsalt]

I checked and they are not on the list. My apologies.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1111944/posts