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What a week last week was. I’m old enough to remember that politicians had to be model citizens and if there was just a hunch about the possibility of a small impropriety, the career was in danger. Actually, I still think it is a good idea to demand the highest standards of those who want to represent or govern us. In the USA meanwhile, a felon, who was found guilty on 34 accounts, can still run for president, backed by a party that once stood for law and order. All the lies leading politicians told after the jury ruled, are just insane. If elected politicians do no longer protect the system that we carefully built, our democracies are in grave danger. I’m still waiting for the decent people of the Republican party to step up and say “Enough is enough. We need to stop this now!”, but I guess the party of the Trump cult doesn’t have any decent people anymore. Or maybe the Republican party had been this ruthless all along, they just did a better job of covering it up.
How will we get out of this mess? When will the pendulum swing back and people realize again that democracy is not perfect at all, but much better than the alternatives?
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Donald Moine, Ph.D., Industrial and Organizational Psychologist specializing in Sales, Marketing, Financial Services and Business Funding. Executive Coach. International Consultant. Speaker. Author.
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3 个月"If we’re looking for bad guys in cinematic fashion, they usually aren’t the weirdos in white coats working in labs but rather the folks wearing suits and ties (or maybe T-shirts and Birkenstocks these days)" – do you have anything to confess, Nico? ??