Governments around the Western world are dropping like flies.
UK’s Tories faced the largest defeat in their history a few months ago.
France had an election in July that had to rely on a very fractious minority coalition to form a government under PM Michel Barnier. It lost a no confidence vote a couple weeks ago to become the first government ousted by Parliament since 1962. So it lasted about 5 months.
Now Olaf Scholz has also lost a no confidence vote in the Bundestag, setting up elections in a couple months.
Rumors are flying that Justin Trudeau is going to resign as Canada’s PM imminently.
Oh, and Donald Trump will be taking the oath of office here in about a month…assuming he isn’t tripped up by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifying former government officials who have engaged in insurrection from holding public office.
Whew boy.
And this is in addition to the Assad regime falling in Damascus, Israel wiping out Hamas and Hezbollah and hitting targets in Iran, South Korea declaring martial law, a war in Ukraine that seems likely to either lead to territorial gains for Russia or escalation beyond the current theater. Anything else?
I see a lot of people cheering all this on social media. “Down with globalism!” and all that vapid palaver.
I myself am a tad bit freaked out about so much political instability and chaos in the Western world happening in such quick succession. Maybe it’ll all come to naught. Maybe it will lead to something better.
But all we know is that a lot things are in motion.
UK’s Tories faced the largest defeat in their history a few months ago.
France had an election in July that had to rely on a very fractious minority coalition to form a government under PM Michel Barnier. It lost a no confidence vote a couple weeks ago to become the first government ousted by Parliament since 1962. So it lasted about 5 months.
Now Olaf Scholz has also lost a no confidence vote in the Bundestag, setting up elections in a couple months.
Rumors are flying that Justin Trudeau is going to resign as Canada’s PM imminently.
Oh, and Donald Trump will be taking the oath of office here in about a month…assuming he isn’t tripped up by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifying former government officials who have engaged in insurrection from holding public office.
Whew boy.
And this is in addition to the Assad regime falling in Damascus, Israel wiping out Hamas and Hezbollah and hitting targets in Iran, South Korea declaring martial law, a war in Ukraine that seems likely to either lead to territorial gains for Russia or escalation beyond the current theater. Anything else?
I see a lot of people cheering all this on social media. “Down with globalism!” and all that vapid palaver.
I myself am a tad bit freaked out about so much political instability and chaos in the Western world happening in such quick succession. Maybe it’ll all come to naught. Maybe it will lead to something better.
But all we know is that a lot things are in motion.
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