The longer things go on. The more I’m becoming reasonably positive.

The stage is being set to ‘reset’ Western politics. It’s fair to say. Things have essentially been stagnant as far as thought goes for decades. No real progress is made and we run into pigheaded stubbornness clinging to ideas and policy that fail time and time again. And we come up with every reason under the sun both real and imagined as to why this idea or that policy failed. Or backfired spectacularly. Or why it wasn’t a ‘Real’ version of whatever ideology we subscribe to.

We’re getting the many flaws of Republicanism, Democracy, and the Enlightenment laid bare. In a way no one in the West was previously allowed to address, question, or make public observation of. Else they were branded with a moniker of ‘Authoritarian’, ‘Nazi’, ‘Racist’. ‘Statist’ or some other term. Whether it actually fit or not by the critics of their observations.