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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: koan who wrote (280998)10/18/2015 9:00:27 AM
From: stsimon  Read Replies (1) of 540713
 
I agree that the Republican right has been bad for the country. However, the reason that the examples of good government you have given exist is that they all have relatively small or heterogeneous populations with adequate resources to meet the needs of their people.

If you watch the reporting on the refugee crisis in Syria et al, many of those families have 8 to 10 children in a part of the world where those numbers are not sustainable today and will never be sustainable. It will not be far into the future when today will be looked at as the best of times. We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg of the calamities that await the poor around the world.

The rich are able to insulate themselves from global warming, war, and mass migrations. Europe is well intentioned to try to help the refugees that are headed their way. Comparisons with the refugee crisis of WWII are quaint, but totally unrealistic. In the not too distant future we will be looking at refugee populations in the scores of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions. Many of the world's poor are headed back to the dark ages as they cling to religious fantasies and breed like rabbits.

As for the United States setting an example for the world, we have never done that and we will not in the future. Our humans are just as flawed as everyone else's. That is why we have the separation of powers. The founding fathers knew their own limitations and those of future generations. IMHO.
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