We should be able to adjust the places from which we view events...
Patrick Gathara is refreshing, he makes me laugh while thinking of the people who write this way about other nations in Africa, Latin America, Asia, anywhere that might be a target for USA interference, intervention or aggression (Serbia...). The people who write (and their readers who talk) this way will be livid when exposed to this writing. You have to be either very confident physically or, like Noam Chomsky, have police protection at events to provide this sort of balance to USA Gringos. It would be funny if the effects of the enabled or permitted foreign policy were not so terrible.
Beyond concerns about democracy, many were also eager to downplay problems in the highly indebted country’s economy, including the fact that inflation is 18 percent higher than when Biden took power with many weekly household expenses going up by far more. This has seen many Americans, nearly 40 million of whom live below the poverty line, lose faith in the Biden regime despite his attempts to blame Trump for the economic disarray. The country’s gross inequality and corruption are reflected in the organisation of the convention, with donors paying up to $5m for a seat in luxury suites at the venue. The event’s $85m budget is almost fully funded by the uber-wealthy and influential big-money groups in what one prominent journalist has described as a “pay-to-play” scheme.
Although at 59, Harris is two decades older than the median age of the US population, her supporters have tried to paint her nomination as a passing of the torch to a new generation. However, it is unclear whether this will fundamentally change the country’s gerontocratic politics, where youth find it hard to break through as their elders cling to office well into old age. The median age in the US Senate is over 65 years old and concerns about senescence have dogged several senior politicians prior to Biden. Only half of Americans 18-29 voted in the 2020 elections, though that was up 11 percent from 2016. However, the country will need to do more than simply get rid of an octogenarian incumbent if its politicians are to reflect the demographic of the nation.
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