Do worldwide tragedies happen as cyclically as the 13 and 17 year locusts? Weird. I wonder if there’s anything on the calendar for 2029?
The Great Plague of Marseille, 1720, was a late outbreak of the bubonic plague in Europe. The First Cholera Pandemic was 1820. The Spanish Flu killed millions worldwide, 1920-ish. And, you’ll remember the SARS-CoV-2 worldwide murderous virus of circa 2020.
If the policies of Calvin Coolidge were the set up for the stock market crash of 1929, causing more than a decade of worldwide misery and poverty, perhaps we need to be really careful about the credentials and policies of the next presidential election.
Which candidate? Neither?
The United States, with its $29 trillion economy, is by far the worlds largest “business”. Representing 26% of the entire planet’s economy, it’s not a joke or beauty contest for who gets to pull the strings.
It is a highly demanding creative, courageous, and intellectual process to run any company, let alone a huge business — with a military. 40% of annual military expenditures are made by the United States, of the $2.44 trillion spent by the world’s military.
Would you casually toss the keys of your 986 Horsepower Ferrari SF90 Stradale Plug-in Hybrid… to your 15-year-old teenager, without their license or training? Really?
It’s hard to understand how politics is more about clever marketing, spin, obfuscation, and psychological warfare — than it is about qualifications, cycle after cycle after cycle. The electorate should know better. Someday this will get the world in trouble.
