[FRIAM] Hope or Despair

[Roger Critchlow]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/08/blaming-fake-news-not-the-answer-democracy-crisis

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On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There's no need for a he/she, Owen.  The term has no relevance when
> talking about the presidency.
>
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Clearly you need to attend to Kissinger and Bremmer.
>>
>> In terms of Russia, Kissinger's analysis of the Nation State suggests we
>> have been far too shallow. There are very good reasons for the Russian
>> people to feel exposed by the west's encroachment, and why they approve of
>> Putin to the degree they do.
>>
>> Trump is no threat. I personally have not given up even one of my 25
>> Damns over him. Any threatened Rape and Pillage will likely just cause
>> another economic implosion which we survived pretty well.
>>
>> I am curious, however, which of Bremmers 3 Americas Trump tends to, or
>> what blend of the three. And what Trump thinks of Kissinger's recent
>> defense of the nation state .. I know Kissinger is meeting with Trump.
>>
>> Presidential politics are unique. Presidential historians agree that,
>> whatever a president has promised, he/she is always formed by unexpected,
>> exogenous events. At a guess, they will be foreign affairs in Trump's case.
>> I hope he takes the MoneyBall stance.
>>
>>    -- Owen
>>
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