Posted on 10/28/2024 4:04:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
America is not invincible. Third-world status is already upon us. How much worse do we want it to get?
On October 30 of this year, Botswana will hold its 13th set of general elections.
The Republic of Botswana rarely makes international news. With only 2.6 million inhabitants, this southern African country ranks between Mississippi and New Mexico in population. Its land is mostly empty desert, and its only noteworthy industry is diamond mining. Yet Botswana’s inhabitants do have something to be proud of: according to the people who keep track of these kinds of things, their country, which has always had clean and peaceful power transfers since its independence from Britain in 1966, is the longest-running democracy in Africa.
That may be about to change.
Ian Khama is the mixed-race son of Botswana’s first president, Sir Seretse Khama, and his English wife Ruth Williams. He served as Botswana’s fourth president between 2008 and 2018. After leaving office, the younger Khama fell out hard with his chosen successor, Mokgweetsi Masisi. It began with disputes over economic policy, but by the end of 2021, Khama, fearing for his life and liberty, had fled to South Africa. The next year he was charged with numerous crimes, including money-laundering, receiving stolen property, and illegal firearms possession, though apart from the firearms charge (apparently a matter of Khama not getting the proper licenses to arm his security detail), Masisi’s government was unable to produce any substantial evidence.
During his years in exile, Khama helped organize and campaign for Botswana’s opposition parties. At one point he even posted a video of himself dancing while wearing a hat emblazoned with “Make Botswana Great Again.”
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Arresting your political opposition on “trumped up charges” and political assassinations is a hallmark of third world countries. We are even importing third world replacement citizens to make it more official.
And the ideal that is America is the most advanced form of government on the planet.
As Churchill said in a speech to the House of Commons (on November 11, 1947, I think), "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Communists, wanna-be dictators, bureaucrats, and all kinds of idiots and bums may seek to destroy that ideal, but it isn't going anywhere now that we have had it. Human beings devolve now and then, but deep down inside they are like athletes in that they always want to run faster, jump higher...reach for something better.
And when they seek something better in government, they will dream of the American ideal.
Correct. Progresives do not believe in "human nature". They believe humans are malleable by the state, and therefore, there is no reason for any limits on government power.
As long as the people in power have "good intentions" they will do only good things. They believe Progressives always have "good intentions".
Sometimes I think this inflation is just a manifestation of our country declining.
Sure there are many contributing causes: debt, government waste, losing jobs to other countries . ll adds up.
BTW few days Scotty Kilmer says Stellantis is moving Dodge Ram production to Mexico…just keeps going on.
I think there are some improvements to be made:
1. Reduce the power of the federal government - make this more a confederation
2. Congress (and state legislatures) to have proportional representation: this domination by 2 parties is not healthy
What’s your opinion on these two? I’m asking you as you normally bring good insights into my postulates!
As to moving away from the 2 party system, I'll have to plead ignorance (though I agree that our 2 party system is problematic).
I just don't know enough about the effects of proportional representation, ranked choice voting, open primaries, lowered barriers to entry, etc.
That said, I think it is certainly worth investigating.
Weren't you in Germany at some point? Isn't Germany a federal republic with a strong multi-party system, where coalition governments are the norm? What is your opinion of that?
Even the Soviet Union replaced their congress critter every 2 years, and they stayed communist for 75 years.
Germany is a federal republic and it is slightly more decentralized than the USA, but not enough.
My favored option is the Old Swiss Confederation, but that might be too idealistic, so the better one is the current Swiss Federation
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