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Trump must be stopped from destroying our democracy : Comments
By Alon Ben-Meir, published 4/12/2025Trump has chosen the path of disastrous authoritarianism. What would it take to stop him from destroying our democracy and replacing it with a dictatorship?
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Asia mostly needs to adopt Confucian principles to advance beyond "Asian rotating officials tyranny". Not sure what principles India, the ME, or Africa need to adopt given they don't have a Confucian tradition.
South Korea, Japan, and others seem to have done this, and advanced accordingly.
Essentially much of the world is living like they did 1000 years ago, only with more powerful technology. "What could go wrong??"
Mao was similar to the emperors, the Ottoman's were similar to the Persian's, the African's are still fighting tribal war's, because they never adopted Catholic Subsidiarity. Some technologies are device based (like the crossbow) some and social (hope this doesn't make me sound like a Marxist). Marxism seems to be essentially similar to the Asian rotating officials model that Machiavelli talked about in The Prince. Ironically Marxist's would have you believe that it is about equality.
As some have said- “Orwell’s 1984 wasn’t supposed to be an instruction manual!”