For the first time in four years, Texas Republicans met in person at their state party convention over the weekend. And boy, did they make up for lost time.
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The USA is genuinely lurching towards something very very dangerous, these people have completely taken leave of their senses and the language they are using and the sort of concepts they happily float are the sort of extremists. Republicans have gone over the edge now, they are beyond redemption as long as they keep their current lot and their current platforms. The crazy started with the tea party movement and now the crazies have fully taken over. Remaining sane Republicans need to either grow a spine and oppose these lunatics or watch the USA tear itself apart. Russia and China must be sitting back laughing watching the west tear itself apart as all the right wing lunatics destroy the countries they claim to love from the inside.
The decline of preeminent super powers and/or regions is inexorable and cyclical. It happened to Egypt, Greece and Italy. The Islamic Golden Age tarnished in time. So it goes with the West. One only needs to observe the lack of meaningful discourse nowadays, stemming from an inability to think critically, to know that the West is terminal. Any improvements to be made are merely palliative.
Education and personal study is ridiculed and demonised (outside of the lucrative spinner of herding kids into universities to complete worthless degrees, emerging with little else but the yoke of debt and peculiar desire to see the immolation of any public speaker with an opinion contrary to their own).
The Far-East has long been on the ascendancy. Regardless of whether their economies are performing or sluggish, the gulf in the mentalities of the East and West are massive. And I don't think the mentality of the East has been ameliorated by American influencers either.
This breed of Republican is emblematic of a country in the death throes, gasping for breath as a particularly aggressive hyper-capitalist cancer ravages its body. They know how to drive a wedge - they learnt well from Rove.
Things are only going to get worse in the West with the paucity of resources. We're all feeling the pinch. But this transition of regional dominance is going to be far more bloody. Neo-colonialist tendencies and entitlement dies hard.
Meanwhile, I'm going to take my daughter to her Sports Day tomorrow. I'm going to try not to think about what a **** inheritance she faces.
