re: #77 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

In the US in the 1970’s there was an elected House and Senate, the latter who had approve the nominations.

I wonder about the UK, that it is becoming dysfunctional faster than the US. There doesn’t seem to be any backstop against the ruling party just becoming a circus.

I don’t know what 2025 will bring. We could have a world war before then.

And in China - Xi will die in the not too distant future - he is old. The entire CCP is a quiet but broken machine, and Deng and Hu knew that and tried to fix it. Xi may want to be the greatest emperor, but he can’t last long if he tries to strong arm the populace even more.

Oligarchies are no less stable than democracies, at least we have yet to be shown that. Democracies themselves are pretty ragged, carried on by the will of enough people.

Remember, women didn’t even vote (nationally) in this country until about a century ago. Many black people were frozen out of American politics until the 1960’s. We’re still young, and it is not clear to me if the majority of the US citizenry really want to be a true democracy or not. Many will be fine with the old ways.

Xi is 69 years old — much younger than our current and our previous president. He could be in charge of China for at least the next 15 years, if not longer. And most dictators these days seem to fall as a result of external factors, rather an uprising by the citizenry to install something better.

Questions — Did you mean to say that Oligarchies are no more stable than democracies? and is it rugged rather than ragged?