Trump is not our saviour--but he has already provided the environment in which we can save ourselves. I disagreed profoundly with many of his policies -warp speed, lockdowns-but the atmosphere has changed.
I do feel-as a retired army officer said that "a heavy weight of existential anxiety has been lifted"
We will know much more when we see who he surrounds himself with.
As I think I mentioned yesterday - the ‘free’ public of the Western world so far this century have been continuously presented at election time between ‘pestilence’ & ‘Armageddon’
In Nov 2000 - who can forget the terrible fall out (for weeks) between George W. Bush & Al Gore resulting in many Americans ‘dangling’ in the eyes of the world for weeks without a president?
In 2010 - the UK was in a similar position with a hung vote resulting in Cameron finally breaking into the downstairs toilet window of Downing St by standing precariously on the shoulders of the useless (but good pre-election orator) Nick Clegg.
This is our problem in the West.
All of my life I’ve straddled a thinking (& doing) position between the left & the right. I’m not alone - in fact most people are moderates at heart. They don’t want (& don’t need) extremism.
But that’s what the 21st century has served up the public in spades. Extremism. The whole West has been in the extremism business. ‘Mass’ immigration. ‘Catastrophic’ climate change. ‘Terrorism’ fiscally, religiously, societally.
Perhaps our best bet as a western civilisation is to swing our legs collectively out of bed every morning with the word ‘moderate’ at the very forefront of our minds?
How mild mannered will today be?
That might be our greatest weapon against those in the world relentlessly pulling us all into extremism?
Indeed. And today we have Dominic Cummings saying it was all Fauci's fault - duping us with his dastardly gain-of-function plot. And that other "we were duped" shill, Malholtra, now has an Advisor role in the Trump administration. I wouldn't be surprised if Starmer summoned Cummings to Downing Street.
Trump is not our saviour--but he has already provided the environment in which we can save ourselves. I disagreed profoundly with many of his policies -warp speed, lockdowns-but the atmosphere has changed.
I do feel-as a retired army officer said that "a heavy weight of existential anxiety has been lifted"
We will know much more when we see who he surrounds himself with.
As I think I mentioned yesterday - the ‘free’ public of the Western world so far this century have been continuously presented at election time between ‘pestilence’ & ‘Armageddon’
In Nov 2000 - who can forget the terrible fall out (for weeks) between George W. Bush & Al Gore resulting in many Americans ‘dangling’ in the eyes of the world for weeks without a president?
In 2010 - the UK was in a similar position with a hung vote resulting in Cameron finally breaking into the downstairs toilet window of Downing St by standing precariously on the shoulders of the useless (but good pre-election orator) Nick Clegg.
This is our problem in the West.
All of my life I’ve straddled a thinking (& doing) position between the left & the right. I’m not alone - in fact most people are moderates at heart. They don’t want (& don’t need) extremism.
But that’s what the 21st century has served up the public in spades. Extremism. The whole West has been in the extremism business. ‘Mass’ immigration. ‘Catastrophic’ climate change. ‘Terrorism’ fiscally, religiously, societally.
Perhaps our best bet as a western civilisation is to swing our legs collectively out of bed every morning with the word ‘moderate’ at the very forefront of our minds?
How mild mannered will today be?
That might be our greatest weapon against those in the world relentlessly pulling us all into extremism?
Indeed. And today we have Dominic Cummings saying it was all Fauci's fault - duping us with his dastardly gain-of-function plot. And that other "we were duped" shill, Malholtra, now has an Advisor role in the Trump administration. I wouldn't be surprised if Starmer summoned Cummings to Downing Street.