We are heading for a depression or recession.

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18. A mixture?

Putin, Xi, Kim, Netanyahu, The musical chairs of Hamas ... have exhibited extreme cruelty.

To our great disgrace, Trump is emulating them, but he is incompetent in the extreme.

I really think that people worldwide have to raise the bar, demanding leaders of real merit.

But they are drawn like flies to racisim, xenophobia ... you know the list ... and they get played

I am sure that there have been many wannabe tyrants, but they just didn't have the backing of enough suckers to be played, or like Jim Jones, had a relatively small (but still too large) following.

There are tipping points in these chaotic systems.

I'll skip a philosophical discussion. Buddhism basically says that ignorance is the root cause , but as I noted, it's up to the many to have high standards and thereby to form a block on runaway poisons.

One doesn't take power without some assent, except, I suppose, through extreme force alone, and I don't doubt that the evil operators behind the scenes are contemplating that.