Re: [OT] Murder in New York

On 12/11/24 09:39, quadibloc wrote:

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.

We in the USA, have outbreaks of individual violence, attacks on schools, churches, synagogues and temples.
In 2020 on January 6 we had communal violence.
Before that we had frequent communal violence directed
toward African-Americans and referred to as Lynching  The same
sort of violence has been directed against Jewish people,
gay people and their cohorts with state laws suppressing their
rights to exist

 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

First comes the North American Alliance.

bliss