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To: marcher who wrote (195974)	2/7/2023 9:12:13 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217802

That is why folks aspire to being rich ? naw,, US has rule of law.. Canada has rule of law.. YES money buys 'justice' for awhile but in both countries.. it takes time to unseat the Kraken .. but it happens .. we progress slowly through the morass but we do progress Three steps forward.. two steps back.. yada yada.. Prolly in 2 hundred years if we make it that far .. not even a blip on the natural scale .. the dif between libs and Cons will be hard to measure .. simply because in the end we all want close to the same thing but the road is dark

To: marcher who wrote (195974)	2/8/2023 3:25:24 PM
From: sense	Respond to of 217802

That ignores, entirely, that a proper comparative review of systems... as reveals that ALL systems have "some" element of that "impunity"... doesn't mean they're "equal" in the degree to which that element exists ? The west, any system more tolerant of dissent, is LESS able to sustain the sort of impunity with which China empowers its leaders... in large part as western cultures are less tolerant of and offended by the corruption than other cultures... who are simply inured of it, shrug it off, and dismiss it as "the expected". That the west has declined relatively in stature under globalization... to be less easily distinguished from "third world shit holes" now... seems clearly true. Bill/Hillary not going to be replacing Jefferson on Mt. Rushmore... Biden... hmmm... don't have a clever quip to properly define that... I do note that I did watch some of the State of the Union last night... and found it uniquely entertaining... [the first I've ever watched that elicited belly laughs]. But, western systems are resilient (by design)... and along with preserving the ability to be outraged by the excesses, retain the ability to correct error of this sort... as they have many times before... The American, French and Russian revolutions each define origins in some element in excess that is beyond tolerating... in western cultures. But, then, where they went once begun... another subject... Ridiculous, still, to presume equality in those metrics, given western institutionalization of adversarial politics, and legal proceedings, etc., with universal expectation of justice and accountability, even, and particularly, where it is lacking. Julian Assange might have good reason to quibble with that assessment... but, that he's even a topic for discussion versus just being "disappeared" with discussion being suppressed ? What's relevant... looking forward... is more about "failure modes" and "correction" functions... including self correcting functions... under conflict. Just looking at China's "adaptation" to Covid relative to others... suggests a society that's systemically incapable of focusing on problems or obvious changes needed... until the stresses induced approach the point of enabling failure modes... a degree of institutional dysfunction and inflexibility that is unlikely to survive competition... even with a west at a low ebb in terms of its own dysfunction. That's only consistent with what I've been saying... that, globally, we've got about the most myopic and worst quality leadership as we've ever had... at least since the crew who led us into WW I... And, just as the war Russia started in Ukraine was easily avoidable... with Putin himself the weakest link in that decision tree... so too is the conflict being ramped up in the Pacific... looking today quite a lot like a repeat of prior Pacific adventures... more about Xi's ego, and a myopic view and warped sense of history, than anything more rational... Xi's model is one that is on trial in the war in Ukraine, now. Putin's vision of himself as a hero, responsible for single-handedly "restoring the greatness of the Russian empire"... perhaps having lost a bit of its luster recently.... still seems not much different than Xi's views re China's proper role in the world. In some degree those are perhaps shallow mimics of Trump's MAGA... which, however, is focused on making changes focused internally, to better ourselves, rather than focused on imposing on others, externally, using coercion as some valid metric of merit ? It's a disheartening period in history... as it is increasingly clear how little has been learned from prior history... apparently, in some, even with the deliberate intent of having us repeat some elements of that prior history...