tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247589365287153101.post7253206596659134416..comments2024-03-27T20:26:02.107+00:00Comments on Caustic Comments:: Can Social Democracy be revived?Dick Pountainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13285966704575531342noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247589365287153101.post-24784993808981678222018-08-13T10:23:19.412+01:002018-08-13T10:23:19.412+01:00Agree 100%. 'Seeing around Trump' is the b...Agree 100%. 'Seeing around Trump' is the best anyone can manage until we see how the precarious power balance between him and the US legal and defence establishments pans out (and I doubt if any of them would bet on the outcome this week).Dick Pountainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285966704575531342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247589365287153101.post-6949864098729525172018-08-13T09:56:10.337+01:002018-08-13T09:56:10.337+01:00Iran dealIran dealalanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14564120357623851962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247589365287153101.post-56255414232017571542018-08-13T09:55:52.009+01:002018-08-13T09:55:52.009+01:00For some time I have thought that climate change a...For some time I have thought that climate change and the need to develop ecologically sustainable economies were, sadly, the best hope for the sort of social democracy we began losing in the 1980s. It has the potential to be as big an upheaval and threat as the 2nd World War, and hence to force a realignment along more socially and economically cooperative and egalitarian lines. <br />Problem is that, as that brilliant Andrew Sullivan article argued, the sort of institutions that might work in that direction are precisely those that the Trumpites and their allies and acolytes are targetting for a corrosive onslaught. Despite his risible side, Trump’s regime has tilted the USA tax system even more towards the wealthy and has badly damaged both the climate change deal and the Iran. Maybe we have to try to see around Trump, but at the moment any attempt to just brings look-a-likes into view - Erdogan, Johnson, the Italian right etc....<br />I wonder whether things felt this desperate in the early 30s? Could anyone then have seen that the post War worl was possible?<br />Gloomily....<br />alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14564120357623851962noreply@blogger.com