People need reminding: the fatal flaw in our system, as in the Communist system, is human nature. Where Communists don’t allow for self-interest and greed, we don’t allow for lack of moderation and common sense. In the total absence of it we will fall hard and fast.
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Roman law, where everything that is not allowed is prohibited, & English law, where everything that is not prohibited is allowed.
Soviet communism was the modern day embodiment of Roman law, while our system sorta embodied English law
Those prohibitions only meant that one had to use the party to satisfy those cravings of self-interest, while still having to deal with the social darwinism inherent in such regimes
Critical masses of angry chumps *and* cowardly institutionalists have already set us in motion. We can survive one or the other, but not both simultaneously.
Dinosaurs topple, empires fall. So it goes.
Why it became Text is Trump became party Leader and he and Musk control the acceleration due to charisma and platform dominance.
https://www.politico.eu/article/boris-johnson-uk-pm-ruined-britains-good-chaps-theory-of-government-says-watchdog/