11-20-2018, 02:32 PM
(11-20-2018, 10:00 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: It may be globalism, and it may have republican forms, but it is anything but democratic.
To make a distinction between a democracy and a republic is an idea which might come from Newspeak.
Quote:The neo-liberal globalism had as its basis the idea that the economy was best run by and that politics were appropriately run by experts -- people of economic success, and not 'losers' like the rest of Humanity.
If these experts and people of economic success are elected in free elections, it is democracy.
Quote:Late-3T leadership is typically weak and permissive, and tells people to go ahead and initiate a new era of unprecedented and eternal prosperity based upon low taxes, easy money, and cheap labor. The last 3T leadership can no longer patch things together. As the bubble bursts, institutions, including government, are discredited. Then comes the 4T.
IMO it was the hedonism promoted by pop culture that encouraged people to run up a debt.