We Americans have been on the brink of disaster many a time..the struggle continues and never ends. Freedom is a living, breathing FIGHT.
But enough people chose Trump.
The Chinese and Russians chose the “stability” of authoritarian darkness as Putin is set to rule longer than Stalin with an updated Soviet throwback agenda, and Xi Jinping is set to rule for life with an updated Maoist agenda.
People take the devil they know over uncertainty.
Given the history of chaos in Russia and China, that’s completely understandable.
Our Western concept of freedom appeals to very few people and history is proof of it.
We’re not living at the end of history and the triumph of liberal values remains far from assured.
I disagree...... Xi sees the future. Hong Kong and the Pearl river Delta region are the future and they have hordes of youth flocking there.
I believe Xi took the lifetime job to begin weaning off the hardline communist stance. The hardline old timers are not the future. The wealth of his nation is already well into the process of transition from what is to something unknown influenced by the educated and upwardly mobile young people