By the very nature of the election cycle that eschews the boldness of action democracies tend to cement themselves along the axis where its leaders are at best mediocre.
The story of human history is that of leaders acting on a poverty of information. Strong leaders win as they are less impoverished in knowledge than their antagonists.
The Russian survival instinct historically is to cultivate a misery that can be spread with interest to their opponents.
It is only natural that the brave Persian people should seek to overthrow the yoke of a belief system enforced on them by conquest. This sits at their heart of the rebellion against the Islamist overlords.
I seek a world where many of the so-called cultural acting elites can return to their role as court jesters and entertainers rather than political know-it-alls.
The flaw in Laissez-Faire Free Enterprise is that there is no built-in safeguard that the market can invoke to protect themselves from the cutthroat monopolist. This is why it inevitably relies on the mechanism of good government. Unfortunately the latter has become all too scarce.
The doctrine of the welfare state will ultimately crumble as it is predicated on human decency and contentment. Both of these are easily steamrolled by greed.
It is a sad quirk of history that the only time the Indian sub-continent was united under a single authority was during the British Raj.
It astounds me as to how few people are aware of how close Fascism is to Socialism in terms of economics. Benito Mussolini and Oswald Mosley were at one point socialists. Peron oscillated between the two. So did many Nazis including the Strasser brothers and Goebbels. At their core they are both statist and advocate for coercion based politics
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