Posted on 06/14/2020 7:23:02 PM PDT by rktman
Liberal democracy has enjoyed much better days. Vladimir Putin has entrenched authoritarian rule and is firmly in charge of a resurgent Russia. In global influence, China may have surpassed the United States, and Chinese president Xi Jinping is now empowered to remain in office indefinitely. In light of recent turns toward authoritarianism in Turkey, Poland, Hungary, and the Philippines, there is widespread talk of a democratic recession. In the United States, President Donald Trump may not be sufficiently committed to constitutional principles of democratic government.
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Electing democrats to anything should be proof positive that Cass is dead right.
Sucks to be old and experienced don't it?
This is what I have felt to be the case. The Republic is not going to come out of this alive. We are headed into the China Syndrome. As a competing total control tyranny we cannot match China and will be overcome. China has 3-5 thousand years of experience building this kind of tyranny. Mao was not a new phenomenon in China but no more or less than the assumption of a new dynasty.
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