This big gov equals small incomes is something I am going to
dismiss out of hand. It’s hard to define what’s a big gov and what’s a small
gov and hard to describe big and small incomes and what does it mean if there
are big incomes but only a few people get them? Sometimes a big gov has big
incomes and sometimes it has small incomes, and sometimes a small gov has has
big incomes and sometimes it has small incomes. Like many burning issues you
can cherry pick and make your case either way, but overall there is no
pattern.
But I am going to totally agree with you about democracies in the
mideast. When W and his wrecking crew were heading into Iraq one of the things
they threw at those who wanted us to stay out was the accusation that the
noninterventionist liberals were saying ‘those’ people weren’t ready for
democracy, and therefore they were racists. The conservatives love to toss the
accusation of racism at the liberals.
But they’re not ready for it, and I agree with you that it’s not
genetic but in their current culture. Those artificial borders are an old idea
of empires. If you have all your, let’s call them cultures, in their own
province, that will make it easier for the province to stand together and rebel,
but if you put half in one and half in the other, then each of those provinces
will have half one culture and half another, and both sides probably won’t like
each other and it will be harder for them to unite and rebel. Some of those
mideast borders were put in by the Ottomans for that reason. And probably the
European powers weren’t thinking of that exactly, but when they cut up the pie
it had the same effect.
I don’t know why they continue to respect those artificial
boundaries. I think in most cases there is one group more powerful than the
others and they don’t want to give up an inch of their land, even though it is
only their land because some old white guys in Europe decided to make it so a
hundred years ago. People are funny that way.
I think the UN originally did make Israel and Palestine one country
at first, but then the two had a war and then there were two countries, and then
they had another war and there was just Israel. More complicated than that of
course and it seems like each side cherry picks their facts as to who rightfully
owns the land. The whole situation seems hopeless to me. Kerry is going over
there but I won’t.
Right now the bodies are headed to Amsterdam and the flight boxes
are going somewhere responsible, and everybody knows with 99 percent surety that
the pro Russian Ukraines, with the help of the Russians are responsible. I
don’t know why the pro Russian guys fucked with the bodies and the flight
boxes. What did they expect to get away with? If everybody thinks you are
guilty, one thing you don’t want to do is look guilty, and that’s just what they
did. One thing you do want to do if you are guilty, is complicate things and
they seem to be doing that pretty well. I think in the end Putin is going to
say Russia has no involvement and you can like it or you can lump it, and how
are we going to lump it?
One thing that might happen is that the only thing that is keeping
Russia afloat is its oil revenues, and Europe is getting increasingly fed up
with Russia and looking for somewhere else to buy its oil, so maybe in the long
run it will hurt Putin.
You have a peculiar definition of ‘taking over.’ Normally it would
mean something like the Russian army marching into Ukraine, or maybe the Shias
taking over the government in Iraq. I don’t see where the blacks and gays have
taken over Chicago. The blacks still live in the worst houses, and the gays
live well enough, but they have yet to make me marry my gay dog. I think what
you mean by taking over is getting exposure on the media and saying things that
affront Beagles.
It sounds like you don’t like this country, so maybe you ought to
go further north into Canada.
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