The Americans had better get really serious about saving their democracy because it's about to run off of a cliff. If Trump gets reelected, he's going to go after democrats HARD.
Yes for sure. The biggest threat is what happens if the US is no longer able to pay its debt, or it can't raise their debt ceiling and everything falling apart? The Fed's continued printing of money is worrying.
I don't believe this for one second. I haven't heard anything from the Ukraine administration that would suggest in any way that they are interested in peace talks. In fact, their recent choice of putting a Crimean Tatar as the Minister of Defence suggests that they are serious about taking Crimea back from Russia. I hear nothing but absolute resolve by both the Weat and Ukraine to keep fighting until a Ukraine victory.
When they start to tell us there's no problem, there's a problem. The US dollar is in decline as the world currency. Too much debt by the US is making other countries nervous to hold too much of their dollars.
We've gone through a very long time at very low interest rates. This means that investors who would normally buy bonds for safekeeping have no choice but to put their money elsewhere. For example, stocks and Real estate.
Due to the free money that we had before interest rates started to rise, stocks were at an all time high but it's not based on fundamentals and higher earnings, so P/E ratios have gotten worse. And there has yet to be a big market correction (that is coming). This makes value investors nervous, but again, there's nowhere else to put the money that gets a good return.
So what would you do if you can't buy treasury bonds and the market is a big bubble? Real estate. Also, the real assets is good to offset any bad bets a corp made in the casino we call a stock market.
So yeah... corporations. All you have to do is follow the money. It's always the same old story. Raw greed and political corruption.
I'm not going to get dragged into creating a new government framework with you. I'll leave that to the political scientists. What I'm saying is that we need limits on power. Limits on income existed before 1980 and were dismantled in Regan's trickle-down economic policy. Taxes used to be really high for the ultra rich after WWII to around the late 1970s. Limits existed in other forms too like anti monopoly laws, more regulation and market oversight. What I'm suggesting is simply taking those that once existed and codifying those things into a charter, like the Magna Carta did for kings, so that they can't be repealed by changing governments. It's an idea, not naive at all.
Greater equality is essential for well functioning societies and well functioning economies. It's good for everyone, even the ultra rich... they just forgot it. Read Ray Dalio's The Changing World Order and he explains this quite well. The man is a billionaire himself, and he advocates for a redistribution of wealth and greater economic equality. His research echos much of what is tough in history: inequality always breads social unrest and political upheaval. It's what revolutions are made from.
Supergovernment? Putting words into people's mouths, I see.
We limited the power of monarchs, why would it be wrong to do that for all powerful people and entities? I say that we need to do it for exactly the same reasons. Limits to power is healthy for everyone, even the super rich. My logic holds true. Does yours?
But I like your idea of a world government because, you know why?... we need to work together rather than against each other. Let's end zero sum game theory.
What this planet needs is a Magna Carta of sorts that limits the power of all people, corporations or other entities or groups. Simple as that. We need limits! Extreme inequality will ALWAYS breed civil unrest.
The denial that there are no such thing as any moral truths is absolving oneself of the accountability of having to take a side or make a decision.