The current policy successes look to me like Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam. The EU isn't collapsing into a heap but they're not doing well.
(Moralistic Mammonism, lots of incumbency, and no emerging philosophical alternative to the status quo. So they're ahead on state function but not really anywhere else.)
(I will be delighted if the US makes it to November and holds an actual election, rather than observing the forms.)
Thing about Le Dauphine is that while he is arguably a better person than his dad, he has a crippling weakness for a national politician; he wants to be liked. Even if you convince him that the status quo needs replacing, he can't do it. (and he is, like any other child of power, pro-status-quo.) The alternatives are a dead-eyed death cultist and a personable but innumerate figurehead. They're not preferable disasters, put it that way.
I would feel a lot better about this if there was a single premier or a national politician who was displaying "time to move" clue. (the ones chanting "ethnostate! ethnostate!" are about murder, not social change.)
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Date: 2020-06-06 09:41 pm (UTC)(Moralistic Mammonism, lots of incumbency, and no emerging philosophical alternative to the status quo. So they're ahead on state function but not really anywhere else.)
(I will be delighted if the US makes it to November and holds an actual election, rather than observing the forms.)
Thing about Le Dauphine is that while he is arguably a better person than his dad, he has a crippling weakness for a national politician; he wants to be liked. Even if you convince him that the status quo needs replacing, he can't do it. (and he is, like any other child of power, pro-status-quo.) The alternatives are a dead-eyed death cultist and a personable but innumerate figurehead. They're not preferable disasters, put it that way.
I would feel a lot better about this if there was a single premier or a national politician who was displaying "time to move" clue. (the ones chanting "ethnostate! ethnostate!" are about murder, not social change.)