Off Topic Thread 5.0

It's genuinely a barbaric style of thinking.

Janan Ganesh had a good article in the FT this week, and amongst other points he contrasts the hypocrisy of Western civilisations who consider it utterly untenable that a Middle Eastern regime that doesn't align with our world view be allowed to sportswash and host a massive international sporting event, but see nothing wrong with consistently relying on similar regimes for our energy security and other economic reasons.

Jenna Ellis was a member of the last President of the US' legal team, and is purporting views there that unfortunately probably aren't as a minority viewpoint in America as they should be.

There is a bit of a perverse logic detachment going on with political right wing movements everywhere.

Lost an election? Election was stolen.

Another mass shooting? It's not guns - you should have converted to Christianity

The problem as I see it is that the supporters of these movements have allowed themselves to be made complete mugs of so the window of nonsense keeps moving. People are getting livid at trivial social justice issues and not seeing the bigger picture at all. Brexit unravelling is forcing a bit of a reckoning in the UK, but that reckoning just doesn't seem to be happening in the US. The 2020 election in many ways should have been a bigger shock than 2016.

Mid terms were a tiny ray of sunshine but no more than a tiny one.