Yes, thats my thinking as well. For the Americas at least, and Africa and the Middle East.
I think that Europe and Southeast Asia by contrast might become the opposite - a hierarchical technocracy with no influence from individuals.
It might actually not be such a bad idea to have both systems operate without interference from each other. Because it won't be truly repressive technocracies, they will be extremely lenient as long as their rule is still sufficiently distant from being practically challenged.
Sadge - when I say I can't think of one truly bad thing the president has actually done, I don't mean that he isn't often ridiculous in his speeches, and that he isn't vain, or that he isn't crude as a person, or that he doesn't hesitate to insult people - which technically makes him a - fill in your numbers of *'s - I mean strictly on a policy level. There truly have been remarkable improvements in the economy across the whole board, which was the platform he ran on, and he has not enforced anything that I would consider to be evil, and made a couple of laws that I consider to be highly moral, such as banning late stage abortions, which in terms of nerve development is just the killing of a fully grown entity. Which can still e justified I suppose but not when it is held up explicitly a moral value. It is a last escape from having to raise a child. Why the wait? I find it hard to swallow that people are calling Trump a bad person for this. He isn't banning abortion altogether, even though he says he is against it. Its a big difference. He says many stupid things, but he keeps his promises as well as he is able to fighting two twenty trillion dollar machines.
Two years ago used to think about the sanctimoniousness of the barbarism made have to hold back tears, wondering what was going to change it. Then Trump came, and for the first time in my life there was a leader who wasn't afraid of being mocked, who sought it out - who says yeah? Well let me mock you for a change. Then all hell broke loose. Journalists are the vainest people on earth.
(if there are weird and out of place words, I still havent found out how to shut off this machines annoying spellings transformer, even changing names.)
There is an acute sadness and emptiness to the topic of politics.
There is only any joy in it when you are making policy. In that sense there is a trace of joy in political philosophy - but there is none in the personal comparison of views - politics is the externalization of long lingering, unresolved problems. Its our way of trying to get other people to do the dirty work for us. I agree that this isn't ever going to work, unless you give a certain group all the power, like what is happening in Europe but what I now think won't ever happen in the US. I think the threat of totalitarianism has been warded off by the orange haired kek, who is qua mannerisms simply too much of a goofball to be a dictator. I wondered if he was spart enough to play the machine and take it slow and take the punches. It appears that he is. Hes been preparing his run for thirty years. No one has reaped more disdainful laughter in the process. Its really a very remarkable occasion in a time where our world is having to decide on a way, a code, a form, a symbol or simply a feeling to acknowledge its unity.
In general he is bringing tings back to a state level, which is he opposite of totalitarianism and a step toward an enlightened anarchy. Also the dissent he inspires is already a form of anarchy, and where other presidents woud have called the national guard to control the situation, he has to just take the punches. Ive thought long and hard and I think no leader in world history has shown such restraint with respect to threats from within the population. So with respect to his own position, this administration is firmly opposed to fascism.
I really, really wonder who the next Democratic candidate will be. I can't fathom ... anything. The only idea that makes sense to me is a person with a native background. Im sure there are a lot of them with the qualifications, but I do think there is still a profound disregard for these people, and what they carry. If they ever give up on themselves I think America will become another Europe.