Hi Charlie. GREAT interview with Jennifer Senior. TWO points from a non-American. First, understandably, all of the excellent conversations of the Bulwark team - and your listeners - treat the threat to democracy as an American problem. It is NOT. What is happening in America threatens the world, most especially Canada. A thriving, …
Hi Charlie. GREAT interview with Jennifer Senior. TWO points from a non-American. First, understandably, all of the excellent conversations of the Bulwark team - and your listeners - treat the threat to democracy as an American problem. It is NOT. What is happening in America threatens the world, most especially Canada. A thriving, democratic Canada in the face of a Donald Trump Jr. as President is not conceivable. Too and related, almost all democracies are fractured as you are, though perhaps yet not to the same degree, as our Trucker Convoy showed. The second point is that, as with the very, very dangerous Bannon, there is a running current in your programming of a purposeful, planned effort on the part of the right to essentially seize governance from those they see as the 'other'. I agree, there is, except that it is systemic and global. So what are we doing about it? I appreciate that your warnings are to your listeners - voters - and influencers/legislators, who of course need to take heed and take action. But is that all that we can do - continue to rely on the people and institutions that got use here? The threat to democracy is global and systemic. It needs to be addressed that way. Whoever prevails will decide how we deal with all of the other pressing issues of the day, from climate change and racial inequity to the economy. I argue it's time for a Plan B for humanity. Would love your - or anybody's - thoughts.
Hi Charlie. GREAT interview with Jennifer Senior. TWO points from a non-American. First, understandably, all of the excellent conversations of the Bulwark team - and your listeners - treat the threat to democracy as an American problem. It is NOT. What is happening in America threatens the world, most especially Canada. A thriving, democratic Canada in the face of a Donald Trump Jr. as President is not conceivable. Too and related, almost all democracies are fractured as you are, though perhaps yet not to the same degree, as our Trucker Convoy showed. The second point is that, as with the very, very dangerous Bannon, there is a running current in your programming of a purposeful, planned effort on the part of the right to essentially seize governance from those they see as the 'other'. I agree, there is, except that it is systemic and global. So what are we doing about it? I appreciate that your warnings are to your listeners - voters - and influencers/legislators, who of course need to take heed and take action. But is that all that we can do - continue to rely on the people and institutions that got use here? The threat to democracy is global and systemic. It needs to be addressed that way. Whoever prevails will decide how we deal with all of the other pressing issues of the day, from climate change and racial inequity to the economy. I argue it's time for a Plan B for humanity. Would love your - or anybody's - thoughts.
https://bobwestrope.substack.com/p/do-you-think-the-world-needs-a-plan