Takker.
Krystall:
«All through the history of democratic stability, the incomes of ordinary citizens grew rapidly. All through the history of democratic stability, a democracy has been the most powerful country in the world. And all through the history of democratic stability, democracies have been highly homogeneous.
Over the last decades, each of these factors stopped being the case. Living standards stagnated. The rise of China is threatening American hegemony. Democracies in North America and Western Europe are more diverse than they have ever been before.»
Mer muddy, derimot, analysen av the left:
«The society they envisage is not one in which liberal democratic ideals are more perfectly realized than they are now—but rather one in which these ideals are sacrificed in the name of social justice.
The most foolhardy parts of the left even go so far as to see the rise of their enemies as a strategic opportunity. Believing that things will have to get worse before they can get better, their most urgent desire is to smash up the status quo. Unwilling to recognize any real difference between the policies favored by the likes of Trump and the policies favored by the likes of Clinton, they prefer the agent of chaos, however violent, to the defender of the current political order, however decent.»
Første avsnitt kan det kanskje være noe i - men gjelder ikke bare venstresiden (den regressive) slik jeg ser det, men ganske store deler av det politiske spekter. Siste avsnitt har jeg vanskelig for å forbinde med noe for meg kjent.
Han antyder fokus på noen av de tre aksene i krystallavsnittet, men sier lite om den svinnende homogenitet. (I avslutningen.)
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