Steve asked me:
*Pieter - I appreciate the international parallax that Friam (sometimes)
offers such as yours here. I'd be interested in a little more of your own
analysis based on your personal socio-economic-political position as well
as your cultural heritage and of course your geopolitical
Yes! The Op wrote long and, frankly, to theoretical a email to ask why
american politics is so [redacted because steve asked nicely].
It boils down to greed, and no accountability, what are effectively
guaranteed contracts get a cushy job for 2-4 years at a time. The dumb way
people say "that
Wow Qadaffi hisself! I've read some Marx, some Lenin, some Mao, some
Castro and others (enemies of democracy in the US vernacular) but this
is new to me... thanks for the reference.
I definitely find "Democracy is the tyranny of the majority over the
minority" to be apt for all forms of
In this context, I would like to share the thoughts of an important world
leader (not very popular with successive US governments) on 1 party, 2
party and multi-party systems. I found his (poorly translated) analysis
very perceptive even if the alternatives he proposed instead were a bit
prosaic.
I'm not an American, but because America plays such a big role in the
world, I do follow what's happening over there. With the presidential
elections happening next year, I cringe at the prospect that it will
be another Trump vs. Biden affair. Can the leader of the world not do
better?
are visible, but the system is not
completely broken yet, or is it? :-/-J.
Original message From: Pieter Steenekamp
Date: 9/3/23 12:03 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday
Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] Is
the American political system broken? I'm
