Analysis of the Russian election. The status quo won handily.
RT
Despite small gains for the far right & Navalny, Russia’s weekend elections don’t suggest any major political change is imminent
Paul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa
Despite small gains for the far right & Navalny, Russia’s weekend elections don’t suggest any major political change is imminent
Paul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa
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Status quo is winning handily just about everywhere.
Hysteresis plus boomers need to move on themselves ...
Yo Trump is populist outsider candidate...
If Trump were a threat to the empire he'd have been assassinated by now.
He’s a transitional figure... he’s changing the post ww2 policy...
He is successfully building his own transitional coalition in the GOP, some of us have been advocating for this since the 90s... were finally getting it 25 years later... takes time...
All I see is noise on trade with China.
Cold War 2.0 - on schedule
Foreign policy - hawkish
Military budget - bloated (i.e. just the way they like it)
Green New Deal - not on the table
Job Guarantee - not on the table
Infrastructure - not on the table
Immigration - same old, same old
And if Biden wins, you can kiss this "transition" goodbye.
Job Guarantee - not on the table Peter Pan
That's a positive, not a negative since paying people to waste their time doesn't do anyone good.
I recall reading about an experiment at a German concentration camp after an Allied raid had destroyed the camp's ability to make rocket (V-2?) fuel:
Week 1: The inmates were ordered to move the rubble to the other side of the camp.
Week 2: They were ordered to move it back.
Week 3: Move it to the other side again. (grumbles of "Stupid Germans can't make up their minds").
Week 4: They were ordered to move it back again.
Week 5 ...
Soon many of the prisoners went mad and charged the fences to be shot down.
The moral of the story is that people would rather do useful work for their enemies than waste their time.
Citizen's Dividend - not on the table
So where are the positives?
A positive with Trump is he's perceived to be a loose cannon against the status quo.
That sure beats Biden's "Nothing will change."
So maybe Trump can learn ...
Not that I'll vote for either one.
Cold War 2.0 is better than WW3...
And you have to train and prepare military to maximize readiness... deter aggression... etc... doesn’t mean you have to ever deploy it...
And we dont have the real Human Resources for either GND or infrastructure...
Will take years of developing new skills in our working age cohort first...
”The moral of the story is that people would rather do useful work for their enemies than waste their time.”
And if you were honest you would also say that his nothing to do with a Job guarantee. But then again you’re not a honest person.
“ Will take years of developing new skills in our working age cohort first...”
Are Americans that poor in learning new skills?
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