Reply #4: Very Alice-in-Wonderlandy. [View All]

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But probably correct in it's assessment of the "debate".

It is characteristic of these sorts of arrogant blowhards - e.g.
Napoleon, Hitler - in their later phases to assume that they can
simply command what they wish despite the facts on the ground, and
usually the nature of the power they hold forbids them to back down.

I have been assuming since Selection-2000 that normal political
correction in no longer possible, it will be an internal collapse
and insurrection as in the USSR or imposed change from without. It
would be amusing in a way to see a re-imposition of democratic rule
in the the USA from without, say by the Russians.

At present I favor the former, both because we lack the means to
pursue global war - like Italy in Ethiopia, our weakness stands
exposed in Iraq - and because the potential enemies all know the score.
They will fend off what provocations they must while letting the Arab
nationalists and Jihadi's bleed us white, until we faint.