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In a democracy, those who have greater wealth are able to achieve more or less what they desire. If they wish to become a president or prime minister, they can afford to hire the best people to promote their cause. If they have committed any civil or criminal acts, they can usually pay off those who have suffered or been inconvenienced. They have the best lawyers. In the USA, you would think that such a large and powerful country would have the talent available to provide the best leadership. The talent is no doubt there, but without the wealth, achievement to a high status is difficult or impossible.
The best USA can offer is Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The former will no doubt become president again. The alternative choice is someone who appears to have difficulty with his faculties. Forgetful, sometimes looks in a trans like state, unsteady on his feet.
Should the electoral system change and end the wealthy only candidates? Replace with a public funded arrangement with the best qualified individuals chosen?
In an autocracy, if you have wealth and desire power, and if you finance the right people, eg. Police, military, and gather round you a group who like the idea of power themselves, and the freedom to use it, even if it means the use of intimidation and violence to assist them. Elections are never needed or are rigged to achieve the desired result. Examples of this can be found in China, North Korea, Russia and Iran.
Difficult to ever change this form of power, unless the people revolt and risk their lives in the process.
Democracy takes bravery.

Surveys show that Trump is popular with most women in USA, regardless of his reported behaviour and other activities. He must have the personality and power plus wealth that women yearn for in a man.

Do you want something too? Maybe you can explain what happened.



Let us go brandon this November.

An American citizen faces up to 20 years in a Russian jail for reportedly giving US$50 (NZ$80) to an organisation raising money for the Ukrainian army.

Ksenia Karelina has been charged with “high treason” after being arrested by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in the central Urals city of Yekaterinburg.

The 33-year-old is the latest American to be locked up in Russia amid concerns Vladimir Putin is using detained foreign nationals as bargaining chips.

Declaring Imran Khan guilty without a trial in the cipher case proves that *Imran Khan was and is honest, no evidence of corruption was found against him. The liar who spreads this lie that I have evidence of Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi's corruption is a traitor and Allah has cursed the liar in Quran. * The cipher was indeed true. Whoever called it a lie is a liar himself and the curse of Allah is on the liar. * Supreme Court judge Faiz Isa or younger Abul Hasnat Zulqarnain are all assets of the army. There is a serious lack of honor in the entire system. Army is absolutely scared of Imran Khan at this time. Hands and feet are swollen. Every rogue and rogue is doing actions but the system is still not under control.

I propose to remove the metaphysical doom and vulgar taste of Nazism from the concept of “national mentality” - and decipher it precisely as a norm: a norm that is constantly reproduced. For most of its political history, Russia was either a Horde vassal, or, in fact, a Horde (which successfully adopted management experience from its Tatar-Mongol comrades). Peter the Great brought from Europe many valuable ideas on fortification and ballistics, but he was not interested in parliament.
State pressure on a person and dominance over his rights, a kind of mystical “great” Russia that exists separately from a person and his dignity - all this, alas, is a norm that has been constantly reproduced over the centuries. That is why Putin succeeded so easily in his dirty deeds after several years of Gorbachev’s freedom and the transition to dictatorship of the “Yeltsin period” (and the transition began at least with the first Chechen war).
“Dominant”, but by no means the only gene of Russian history, in which there were the Decembrists, and the Zemstvo reform, and the Thaw of Khrushchev, and Academician Sakharov. A story that today includes Vladimir Kara-Murza.
The European path for Russian civilization certainly exists as a possibility: Children born in Russia today are not imperialists or liberals, they are just children. They are an equal opportunity for any path for the country. If they little by little begin to set Academician Sakharov as the desired political norm, they will turn out to be one Russia; if they start laying them out from the maternity hospital with the letter Z, they will turn out to be another.
Yes, after Putin’s military adventure, which triggered the bloody pre-collapse of the empire, Russian civilization most likely has very little chance of surviving within its current borders. Now I am talking about the preservation of this civilization. About whether it will survive its imperial period, as dozens of other civilizations survived it - or whether the cadaveric poison of the two-headed bird will bring it to its final grave.
Tens of millions of Russians, in Russia and abroad, are certainly ready for the country to return to the European path of development and perceive this as a desirable development of events.
And there is still be a chance. I hope so....

I'm working on some video links where Trump has promised retribution to anyone who has gone against him. Soon, but not now. He's been the leader in the race for the Republican nomination. All have dropped out with the exception of Nikki Hailey who is 'hanging in there' and still has a slight chance, despite Trumps huge lead.

Top story: Trump threatens to blacklist Nikki Haley's donors.
Are you kidding me?

Former President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to blacklist anyone who donates to Nikki Haley's presidential campaign.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that anyone who makes a contribution to the Haley campaign "from this moment forth, will be permanently barred from the MAGA camp."

"We don't want them, and will not accept them," he added.

Gotta love that TRUTH social media platform where he can say/do anything he wants...

At least it's MAGA or nothing !!

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An absolutely superb documentary film on what happened in the Arizona 2022 mid-term elections. Please watch

Nearly all of the back biting is over. It's not that Florida's absent governor Ron DeSantis really had a chance at the Republican nomination, but it's down to Nikki Haley and Donald Trump. Come crawling back to Florida Ron... maybe You can catch up on reversing the laws they reversed while you were gone.
It's okay... but I suggest you get some taller lifts for those boots as you're looking mighty low right now.