American Psycho-Geriatric
Whatever the outcome of the 2024 USA elections, the next 16 months in America look like they will be a time of troubles. Could political disintegration of the gerontocratic American republic occur over the next two years?
Biden remarks on Xi were a boast, not a gaffe
So Biden’s remarks were not a gaffe, not a slip. They are not words of petty anger, even if they are the simmering resentment of Captain Ahab’s obsessive revenge. Biden’s remarks are more boastful than angry, though they have that edge too. Biden is angrily defending his inflated image of his own prowess as political leader and foreign policy leader, and indeed the infinite ‘possiblilities’ of America.
The Time of Troubles to come in America
“There always is this fallacious belief: ‘It would not be thesame here; here such things are…
Six asides on the USA 2020 election
This long post contains my reflections on the election in America. There are six reflections: One….