The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(01-15-2022, 07:00 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: My proposition is that in the Information Age cultures can be altered through protest and legislation, as the suffragettes, Gandhi and Martin Luther King demonstrated.  That seems to be holding true.  

It's not so clear. 

In the USA, a reactionary minority is able to decide policy, restrict voting, block reforms and threaten or attempt violent coups. They support the police and vigilantes who shoot and kill unarmed young people and protesters without cause. Outside the wealthy countries of Europe, Japan and the Anglosphere, and some countries in the Americas like Chile, brutal, ruthless dictators without any conscience are able to stamp out huge protest and people-power movements. The dictators have the weapons and the people are powerless. In some other large developing countries, such as The Phillipines, Brazil and India, democracy is tenuous and current leaders are seeking to monopolize power or use violence for control. In Eastern Europe, in countries such as Turkey, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, the people themselves have voted in tyrants who have manipulated the system to assume authoritarian rule, so that the people no longer have any power.

We see the people rising up and being shot down, jailed and tortured in such countries as Syria (the worst case), Egypt, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Tunisia, Sudan, Mozambique, Iran, Burma, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, China, North Korea, Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Cuba, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and other former Soviet republics, and others in Africa and elsewhere. In other countries such as Iraq, Lebanon, Indonesia and Pakistan, democracy is tenuous and in crisis and the outcome is unclear.

People power is largely failing. The people will have to get weapons and fight back where it fails. The tyrants cannot be appealed to by the methods of Gandhi and King; they have no morality, values or conscience to appeal to. Right now this fight-back is having some success in Burma (known as Myanmar as named by the tyrants). In others like Syria and Venezuela, the people fighting back have been defeated by foreign allies of the tyrant. Russia (a country controlled entirely by one man) is the biggest ally of tyranny in the world.

Right now we are on the verge of world war. It is democracy versus tyranny all over the world. Climate change is fueling the fight. Russia threatens to invade Ukraine and China threatens to invade Taiwan. People everywhere will get weapons and fight their tyrants and get support from democracies and NATO. I am predicting that the war will not break out this year, but may break out in 2025 or perhaps 2024 or 2026. Certainly the USA itself will not be in a war footing until then. Well, we'll see.