Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Trump indicted (again) | Ian Bremmer | Quick Take" video.

  1. Tony Robbins, the controversial former American self-taught psychologist of change wrote a book and one of the things he said in it to do when things are the way you describe them: like the eroding American political institutions becoming corrosive, the guardrails becoming weaker, distrust across the political aisle like never before etc., is to ask very this simple but often irritable question: What is good about this problem? I remember getting divorced and reading this and practically wanting to call Robbins and ask him what's good about me getting divorced. It seemed absurd to even think that there could be something good in things coming apart in one's life or in the case of America and the country coming apart. Ian, I would say this about the way things were and the way it is and I am shooting from the hip. What is good about the tragic set of circumstances you have so well described is that, like the person the most perplexing in US history to occupy The White House, Donald J. Trump, what Trump has done is to stretch your Republic to the limits by his antics that defy common sense to be kind---and its political institutions as well. Things like guardrails for failing institutions and off-ramps are either crumbling like the nation's infra-structure or falling into disuse, but what is good about these undeniable facts is that your Republic will tremble at times but it will not fall. It will not fall because of a bombastic, admittedly charismatic quasi-charlatan who dominates the political stage in the Republican part any more than it will fall because the very political institutions that make your government tick have perhaps fallen into disrepair, but things will spring back. Because we all seem to forget one thing: democracies are flexible whereas autocratic regimes, once they start cracking, end up with a firing squad and the chump in charge getting dumped in a dumpster and game over...
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