The New Politics
Politics- in all its forms- is bankrupt. The notion that we can safely and successfully hand over the management of our daily lives and the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is th Contd...
Ideologies - from the benign to the malign and from the divine to the pedestrian - have driven the gullible human race to the verge of annihilation and back. Participatory democracies have degenerated everywhere into venal plutocracies. Socialism and its poisoned fruits - Marxism-Leninism- Stalinism- Maoism - have wrought misery on a scale unprecedented even by medieval standards. Only Fascism and Nazism compare with them unfavorably. The idea of the nation-state culminated in the Yugoslav succession wars.
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The New Politics
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Impeach Bush now
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Three models seem to be emerging as the dominant forms of future politics:
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III. In certain countries- mainly in the West- a disenchanted and uninterested citizenry will relegate power and vest it in various oligrachies- forfeiting its decision-making prerogatives altogether and permanently in return for material welfare and personal safety.
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