Right? I honestly don't get it. I don't think what I bring up is radical politics. I read a lot of history and discuss these issues with others in my faculty. I get if some of it might be too deep or political for others to stomach. That's fine. But when entering a political thread I wish people would understand that it's bound to be political. If people want balance (nice things said about the GOP) they can go to CNN or Facebook. But for most of us who are into politics or study/teach history/politics for a living, we all understand the decline of the GOP and the threat that Trump poses for not only our country but for western democracy.
I guess that rubs people the wrong way? If they want a "balanced" approach, why don't they bring up facts to counter my concerns?
imo it seems ironic that you of all folks consider yourself a judge or advocate for "western democracy", and for sure nobody who goes to CNN or Facebook is gonna get any balance, either.
History, it seems, is written and edited continuously by whoever has the bully pulpit, academically speaking. It's trendy now to push a political agenda, a vision of things convenient for the "right" people. The "Right People" today might be including some newbs that weren't particularly important, say in the 1950s or 1960s, the era of Post WWII elites of America, but the important interests haven't changed much, really. Our Media was run in sync back then, with three major components.... ABC, NBC, and CBS.
Of particular note, David Rockefeller, who passed last spring, made it a point to speak to a media gathering about how "He couldn't have done it without them". What did he do, in his opinion? He established a solid movement towards world governance. He even wrote a book about it, so proud he was of his life's work.
But it was not he alone.... he had serious help from the Brit Royals, always looking forward for their commonwealth interests, and many leading industrialists around the world, and even the "Statist Marxists/Capitalists" of Russia and China. Folks like Putin, for example, who have morphed from ideological Marxist towards oligarchic Statist/Fascists with a few trappings to assuage the common folk, a return to local traditional values. In Russia, that means Orthodox Christianity and connections with the common folk. In China, that means Confucian traditional philosophical guidelines and traditional emphasis on social conformity just like under the Chinese Emperors across thousands of years of "the World's Greatest Traditions".
Anyone, like Thriller, who can't see the difference between Western democratic ideas including the Magna Carta and the US Constitutional rights of human beings, and Statist governance, is no kind of authority on the subject.
The central ideas of the global management do not include elected governing officials. Where local guvmints have such "elected" officials, if they do not comply with the new programs well enough, they are bound to be treated like Trump.
