Hi Joe, what are you trying to say? It's not as long as I thought?

I didn't realize you could see that far or were that observant?

Any chance I could borrow those, high tech, xray capable, very high powered binoculars?
Cheers, Alan

It could be that a new political movement has starting, which is a grass roots political movement based around "distrust".

That movement is most readily seen in america, where people intend to vote for Donald Trump because they distrust Hillary Clinton, and people intend to vote for Hillary Clinton because they distrust Donald Trump.

Similarly British people voted to leave the EU because they distrust the EU, and now the EU distrusts Britain.

And closer to home, few people trust political parties in Australia, and political parties do not trust the public or trust other political parties or even trust their own members, and of course no one trusts organisations such as the ABS anymore, (not now and not ever).

Much of this distrust is probably because of neo-liberalism, immigration and globalisation.

Whether this distrust will lead to an improved society in the future is a question.

But I don't think that question will be answered, because I think neo-liberalism, immigration and globalisation will lead to such wide-scale collapse, a new society is unlikely to eventuate.

The world will become a wasteland before an improved society ever eventuates.

Ding ding ding ding

We have a winner of The Dumbest thing ever said!

"Whatever ever you want to call it, conservatism works, unlike the Left alternative. History proves it." ttBn

Well done sir, here is me thinking it would be Runner.

Left? Right?
Might middle of the road politics get mention in this discussion?

Don

On this occasion your essay is way too highbrow for the men of a certain age who make up the OLO punter-rotty. Punter-rottys being Regular Reactionaries Who Won't Let Go.

Their idols are Senator Leyno (1) and Trump. Their natural enemies are young, female and Leftist.

A quibble. Your contention that "It is nearly always the young who start revolutions" forgets the main revolutions in China and Russia launched by comparatively old (for their eras) Mao (2) and Lenin (3).

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Leyonhjelm

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong#Great_Proletarian_Cultural_Revolution

(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin#October_Revolution:_1917

Yours

John Stuart Mill

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