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Analysis: In democracies' chaos, new model emerges
AP ^ | December 14, 2018 | Niko Price

Posted on 12/15/2018 11:52:53 AM PST by gattaca

Edited on 12/15/2018 1:23:57 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

LONDON (AP)

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


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1 posted on 12/15/2018 11:52:53 AM PST by gattaca
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To: gattaca

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.


2 posted on 12/15/2018 11:57:02 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

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


3 posted on 12/15/2018 12:00:10 PM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: tet68
DITTO!

4 posted on 12/15/2018 12:01:33 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: gattaca
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.

5 posted on 12/15/2018 12:03:11 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
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To: gattaca

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


6 posted on 12/15/2018 12:03:21 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: tet68

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


7 posted on 12/15/2018 12:04:39 PM PST by posterchild (anti-science: thinking a fetus is distinct from a tumor and sex is determined by chromosomes)
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To: gattaca

Where’s the barf alert?


8 posted on 12/15/2018 12:06:17 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: gattaca

A thousand times...Amen!


9 posted on 12/15/2018 12:07:20 PM PST by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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To: gattaca

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


10 posted on 12/15/2018 12:07:57 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: central_va

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


11 posted on 12/15/2018 12:08:39 PM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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Intrusive governments, uncontrolled migration, global redistribution of wealth (global warming), cultural rot, and abandoning faith in God.

This won’t end well.


12 posted on 12/15/2018 12:12:50 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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13 posted on 12/15/2018 12:19:05 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: gattaca

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.


14 posted on 12/15/2018 12:19:06 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: gattaca

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


15 posted on 12/15/2018 12:37:35 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: mrsmith

Bkmrk.


16 posted on 12/15/2018 12:43:23 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: outofsalt

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.


17 posted on 12/15/2018 12:46:55 PM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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" . . . 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."
18 posted on 12/15/2018 12:50:32 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: SaveFerris
Re: Globalism image.

Great graphic!
19 posted on 12/15/2018 12:52:58 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: gattaca

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


20 posted on 12/15/2018 12:57:11 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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