The United States would be better served if it stopped
viewing politics as a team sport that requires consistent and unnecessary nourishment
and over stimulation.
The Covid-19 disaster outlined two important facts about
humanity viz. there is no shortage of bullies willing to abuse the rights of
the other nor is there a deficiency of the weak minded who will voluntarily give
up their freedoms.
The tragedy of the liberation movement in South Africa is
that it sacrificed its long term future for gains in the present by promoting liberation
before education.
Robert Mugabe continued the powerful post-colonial tradition
in Africa of turning his country (Zimbabwe) into an economic disaster by
wrecking its agricultural self-sufficiency.
In regularly voting into power the ANC the South
African electorate shows once again that democracy is no guarantor that the
incompetent and the corrupt will be replaced.
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