Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Ian Bremmer talks democracy in America, U.S.-China relations, Kazakhstan, and climate change" video.

  1. It's hallucinating listening to Mr Bremmer about what the Trump phenomenon has done to the American---plutocracy---I think Ian would agree that with the average (2016) worth of a US Senator being 14.2 million dollars and to be considered in the top 1% in America you need to be worth 14 million dollars, the laws and legislation that have to pass the Senate is coming from the top 1%. What am I saying here? Every law has been written or approved of by the wealthiest people in America or their backers in the case of Lyndsay Graham. America is ruled by the wealthy; a democracy is ruled by the majority though, democracies have probably always had the upper crust writing the laws. What Trump has done is to have become the godfather of punk-politics in America. He will certainly be remembered as the 'Prince Andrew' of American politics and the pinochio of American statesmen, but what has been the most positive thing---in my opinion--I'm an artist and not a poltical analyst, is to have brought American 'democracy' to its knees. Democracies need to be constantly tested and Donald J. Trump has done just that. Sure; it looks grave. Legions of fans follow him blindly because he's soaking in a sort of charisma that only the tiny screens of our portable phones can bring into bigger-than-life status. The bubble of the Trump era will burst one day down the road and people will be scratching their heads and asking themselves how they could have supported such a poor example of a statesman and a leader, but for now, America has to grapple with the fact that alternative facts are something that no one has come up with a vaccine to counter against.
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