| Akvod said: stuff |
I hate to tell you, but most European countries stopped being democracies a long time ago. No-one noticed, of course, except a few people who were labelled as paranoid Orwellians. Everyone else was perfectly happy to give up their essential liberties whilst the economy was strong.
What's happening now is that people are starting to wake up to the lack of democracy. And the lack of democracy is becoming more obvious now that the EU has basically taken control of several of its member states. Of course, the people have no-one to blame but themselves; the signs were all there to see. They have the governments they deserve.
And, as is always the case, whenever some retarded political trend starts on one side of the Atlantic, it crosses the Pond within a few years. Particularly interesting in the US is the rise of vocal, public antisemitism since the start of the banking crisis. It has always lurked beneath the surface of mainstream American culture, but now it's coming out into the open just as it has in Europe.
And don't get too optimistic about the Arab spring, either. What tends to happen in that region is that military leaders get replaced with religious ones or vice versa. The latter are worse, and we'll probably see a lot more of them now. Egyptians are already killing each other over religion, and I give it 12 months, tops, before we realise that we made the same mistake in Libya that we made in Iran. Thank Zeus that Libya is too small to be the same kind of threat.
We're very likely to see the nukes flying before the decade is out.
I'm pessimistic about the world's near future.
