Comments by "Grenade Tennis" (@hughjass1044) on "The Rise of the European Far-Right || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. An old codger I used to know many years ago had a favorite saying about politics that always stuck with me. He'd say - "Look after the reasonable and you'll never have to worry about the radical." There's another one that I heard once that also stuck with me. I don't know the origin of it but it goes - "Contented people don't revolt." When you are seeing movements that you consider reactionary or extreme... and each person can define for themselves what those terms mean.... it's an indication that something is wrong somewhere and that things are broken. It means that the people in charge and the systems in place are failing. It means that the reasonable is not being looked after and that the people are not content. These are what are euphemistically called "canaries in the coal mine." But it also means that those in charge are unable or unwilling to accept and admit that something is wrong and that a course correction of some sort is called for. Instead, they react in typical political fashion by doubling and tripling down on their failures and attacking the people and groups which spring up in opposition to them..... which of course, only fuels the fires even more.
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