DO more, talk less is the advice given by Kevin Rudd, former Australian prime minister, to current Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, on his war of words with China.
How do you tell politicians to shut up? As Fu Manchu might say, you are free to criticise your best customer but they are free not to buy from you. Fair, dinkum?
The world is a downright mess because the elites told the masses that with freedom, democracy and globalisation, life will be better tomorrow. Tomorrow came and the middle classes (most of us) felt that our living standards are going down, jobs are being lost and we got sold a load of myths. So the middle class voted for change, but the elites like Hillary Clinton had the cheek to call them “deplorables”. Well, we got Trump for four years, and we are in a bigger mess than ever.
Global strategist Ian Bremmer thinks that Trump is not the problem, he is only a symptom, not the cause of global troubles. He blames four underlying big causes as: American middle class wanting change, becoming anti-immigration, not wanting to be involved in foreign wars, and finally technology creating social bubbles that cause more polarisation within society, not just in America, but everywhere. Nice words, but action on any single one issue might take a decade at least to solve.
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