Just a few short years ago we Americans knew what we were doing: making the world into one big likeness of ourselves. We had the experts; we knew how it was done. Our policy operatives would deradicalize here and regime-change there; our economists would float billions to the good guys and slap sanctions on the bad; and pretty soon the whole place was going to be stately and neat, safe for debt instruments and empowerment seminars, for hors dâoeuvres in the embassy garden and taxis hailed with smartphones. Democracy! Of thee we sang.
Now we stand chastened, humiliated, bewildered. Democracy? We tremble to think of what it might do next.
Government of the people? When we open the door to ordinary peopleâlet them actually influence what goes onâthey insist we make bigotry and persecution into our great national causes.
Government by the people? When we let the people have their sayâunmanaged, uncuratedâthey choose the biggest blowhard on TV to be our leader. Then they cheer for him as he destroys the environment and cracks down on immigrant families.
Heed the voice of the plain people and all the levees of taste and learning will immediately be swamped. Half of them will demand that minorities be consigned to the back of the bus; the other half will try to confiscate the hard-won wealth of societyâs greatest innovators. (...)
Is Bernie my monkey? I ask you, KarmaKarma, even though I know you're not my monkey. But you seem to have a strong interest in (and therefore perhaps knowledge of) monkeys. Perhaps you can help me determine who my monkey is.
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you, KarmaKarma. Spasibo.
Is Bernie my monkey? I ask you, KarmaKarma, even though I know you're not my monkey. But you seem to have a strong interest in (and therefore perhaps knowledge of) monkeys. Perhaps you can help me determine who my monkey is.
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you, KarmaKarma. Spasibo.
Bernie Sanders is a class act and he performed much better in the primaries than most expected. A certain country in North America could do with a little more class these days.
Our politics are not quite the same but today I prefer to focus on the common.
I support him 100%.
At this point I fear greatly for the future of this country.
Bernie Sanders is a class act and he performed much better in the primaries than most expected. A certain country in North America could do with a little more class these days.
Our politics are not quite the same but today I prefer to focus on the common.
Is Bernie my monkey? I ask you, KarmaKarma, even though I know you're not my monkey. But you seem to have a strong interest in (and therefore perhaps knowledge of) monkeys. Perhaps you can help me determine who my monkey is.
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you, KarmaKarma. Spasibo.
