TweetLeaders come in all forms and shapes, dictators, autocrats, pragmatic and transformative, transactional, Biden is the realist president, who believes in incremental changes; not the big idea man. He is not the F.D.R he is not the transformative president. Democrat bosses put him ahead of us to defeat the progressive wing of the democratic party more than defeating Trump. Now voters aren’t sure if he is the right candidate for 2024. As the Times reported, “… the repeated failures of his administration to pass big-ticket legislation on signature Democratic issues, as well as his halting efforts to use the bully pulpit of the White House to move public opinion, have left the president…
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THE SLAP
TweetThe Slap As Millions of Americans were consumed by the supreme court confirmation hearing circus, where the Republicans, as the Times puts it, “aggressively manhandled” judge Ketanji Brown Jackson trying to get the black woman off the supreme court front bus. Then Oscar’s Slap happened last Sunday, and this overshadowed everything, even the horrendous Russian invasion of Ukraine and the new “Hitler of Europe;” Putin was pushed aside.
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THE CIVILIZED WAR!
TweetThe Japanese American political scientist Francis Fukuyama published 1992, The End of History and the Last Man. He explained that after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin wall. The end of ideological conflicts and the beginning of a post-political and post-ideological era. Mr. Fukuyama declared the West has won and Western liberal democracy as the final ideological stage of human evolution. The book was criticized, especially by Samuel Huntington in his book published 1993, the Clash of Civilization. Huntington, unlike Fukuyama, thinks there are no universal values, and the world is divided into distinctive cultures and civilizations;. “The Islamic civilization, he wrote, is the…