Political systems can degrade, decay, go broken. They almost never repair themselves

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The entropy works one way. Once a system got unhinged and broken, it can be extremely hard for it to return back to good functional condition: it just doesn't happen. Politicians can voice impossible hopes, keep their heads in the sand or ar$es but it won't change the fact of nature: a decaying body cannot simply recover. It has to be treated, intelligently, effectively and often, in an intensive care.

And from these observations, follows a direct, logical conclusion: the U.S. is leaving the field of contemporary democracy for a long time, possibly for good. Next election will fix nothing. Precedents have been created and the next ones can only be worse. But where is worse if subverting an election has become an acceptable standard, Maduro and Belarus way?

That is something democratic world has to come to terms with, rather than creating impossible illusions. And a dire warning to the only two democracies that still use binary politics: the clock is ticking. Binary politics, extreme partisanship will undermine and destroy democracy. Not if, not even when, but how many cycles left.

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Trump's maronic tariffs, bizarre and illogical is one indication that everything said isn't only a theory or warning but is in fact, happening before our eyes. This irrational volatility will not somehow fix itself magically but will only get worse as every new populist administration would look for and find ways to beat the previous one by unpredictability and chaos. The U.S. may be lost to the free world for a long while. And the rest of it should take in and reflect on the message very seriously. Democracy is not free. It takes thinking, care, responsibility and act of involved citizens. Most importantly, keeping big money out of public politics and maintaining and reaffirming the line between objective truth and lies.

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Mark Carney: "it's the second time, in less than a decade that the US, in effect, ripped up a trade agreement with its closest trading partner".

The time has changed, it's factual and official: America is not a reliable partner. It has entered a zone of volatility and cannot be trusted as much as before.