There are many who think that it is Dr Jjll that is keeping him in the race, she has her own ego and ambitions.
She and just about everyone in D.C. lives in a bubble, and completely out of touch with the world around them, or the world outside of the D C Beltway.
There are many who think that it is Dr Jjll that is keeping him in the race, she has her own ego and ambitions.
She and just about everyone in D.C. lives in a bubble, and completely out of touch with the world around them, or the world outside of the D C Beltway.
Well I don't know if she is, but I agree about the bubble. Far too often in business and government those at the top want an echo chamber, or at least think that if they talk to people just like themselves they will know what is going on. Thus when things go wrong they are completely surprised...and likely as not will do the same thing all over again and expect a different outcome. (Killing Saddam led to predictable chaos so killing Gaddafi won't?) And few appreciate being told that the emperor has no clothes.
You are correct Doc, in one respect,we don't know why people do what they do, we can only infer motive from behavior.
People seldom think of unintended consequences beyond their immediate, self gratfying actions. Invading Iraq is one example.
A theme one sees on TV, in movies and series,is that taking out a criminal boss, doesn't solve the problem, but creates a bigger one as it unleashes a war of rivals in which innocents get hurt.
I am watching a series called the Mayor of Kingston, A town that grew up around two or more prisons., and there are quite a few of them in America.
Crime followed the prisons, because the shot callers, the crime bosses were in the prisons, but the crime doesn't stay in the prisons, the shot callers are still at work and have their constituents on the outside.
When the shot callers are shut down on the inside, holy hell erupts on the outside, as power struggles erupt.
Like a hydra, knock off one head, and you still have other heads to contend with, and worse they aren't the heads of one body, it is a body you can't kill.
I am sitting here thinking that the W.O.T.. is a farce, no mention of it, victory declared with the death of OBL.
But O.BL set in motion the domino's on 9/11 and we, via our elected leaders, have done the rest.
Sometimes, like in the present, people know that the emperor has no clothes, but he is their emperor, their meal ticket to vengeance, domination and control, or so they think.
In an un or underdeveloped country, a dictator comes to power by use of force, despite the will of the people, but not in a developed country, dictators come to power because the people embraced and/or supported them.
Because the regime, the establishment as is, is blind to their fears and needs
Too late they discover that they have bought a pig in a poke,
Democratic governance has afforded humankind freedoms and standards of living, that his ancestors would have marveled at and never believed possible.
Yet Democratic governance contains the seeds of it's own downfall, the very freedoms that it enables and which sustain it, are the very freedoms that will bring it to its knees. Tis happening in Europe as I type, and in the U.S. as well.
There are many who think that it is Dr Jjll that is keeping him in the race, she has her own ego and ambitions.
She and just about everyone in D.C. lives in a bubble, and completely out of touch with the world around them, or the world outside of the D C Beltway.
Well I don't know if she is, but I agree about the bubble. Far too often in business and government those at the top want an echo chamber, or at least think that if they talk to people just like themselves they will know what is going on. Thus when things go wrong they are completely surprised...and likely as not will do the same thing all over again and expect a different outcome. (Killing Saddam led to predictable chaos so killing Gaddafi won't?) And few appreciate being told that the emperor has no clothes.
You are correct Doc, in one respect,we don't know why people do what they do, we can only infer motive from behavior.
People seldom think of unintended consequences beyond their immediate, self gratfying actions. Invading Iraq is one example.
A theme one sees on TV, in movies and series,is that taking out a criminal boss, doesn't solve the problem, but creates a bigger one as it unleashes a war of rivals in which innocents get hurt.
I am watching a series called the Mayor of Kingston, A town that grew up around two or more prisons., and there are quite a few of them in America.
Crime followed the prisons, because the shot callers, the crime bosses were in the prisons, but the crime doesn't stay in the prisons, the shot callers are still at work and have their constituents on the outside.
When the shot callers are shut down on the inside, holy hell erupts on the outside, as power struggles erupt.
Like a hydra, knock off one head, and you still have other heads to contend with, and worse they aren't the heads of one body, it is a body you can't kill.
I am sitting here thinking that the W.O.T.. is a farce, no mention of it, victory declared with the death of OBL.
But O.BL set in motion the domino's on 9/11 and we, via our elected leaders, have done the rest.
Sometimes, like in the present, people know that the emperor has no clothes, but he is their emperor, their meal ticket to vengeance, domination and control, or so they think.
In an un or underdeveloped country, a dictator comes to power by use of force, despite the will of the people, but not in a developed country, dictators come to power because the people embraced and/or supported them.
Because the regime, the establishment as is, is blind to their fears and needs
Too late they discover that they have bought a pig in a poke,
Democratic governance has afforded humankind freedoms and standards of living, that his ancestors would have marveled at and never believed possible.
Yet Democratic governance contains the seeds of it's own downfall, the very freedoms that it enables and which sustain it, are the very freedoms that will bring it to its knees. Tis happening in Europe as I type, and in the U.S. as well.