Re: [OT] Murder in New York

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:56:54 +0000, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

Like Ghandi I believe that Western Civilization would
be a good idea but I fail to see where it has arrived.

Not long after Gandhi's quip, though, came the partition of India in
1947.
Say what you will about the industrialized nations of the West, but they
have
outbreaks of what India calls "communal violence" rather less often than
India. And today India is governed by the BJP and its leader Narendra
Modi,
who openly favors Hindu supremacy.
However, since the U.S. has elected Trump, and Canada appears to be on
the
verge of electing Pierre Polievre (who tries to come across as a normal
Conservative politician, but by supporting the "Freedom Convoy" he
revealed
himself to represent the same madness as Trump) perhaps I should not be
quite
so sanguine about the West.
(The Freedom Convoy was a protest that blocked off a significant area of
Ottawa,
interfering with the ability of several businesses to operate, demanding
the
resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, which was a protest
against
the basic public health measures Canada took in response to the COVID-19
pandemic.)
Apparently the world is going mad, and will soon fall into a global
tyranny, in
which the world's three nuclear superpowers, Russia, mainland China, and
the
U.S. will all get along just fine, dividing the world between them as
three
like-minded dictatorships. I dread this prospect. Not that I feel it is
certain - but even a detectable probability of such a calamity is
intolerable
to me, so I'm not satisfied with the hope that the entire GOP will stop
short
of supporting Trump when it comes to the point of him leading America
into the
abyss.
John Savard