@mw6553: "That's how life works." Yes, even the Bible says, "violence begets violence." And Donald Trump is the "poster child of lies, violence and political division". PS: before the assassination attempt, America's mood was of lots of anger, well that's changed from anger to "fear". When we are in a state of fear, we want things to stay "as is". Americans are (now) afraid that Trump will turn America into a "hellhole of violence". Fear will be the winner in this election. The assassination attempt was a message from God. Even Trump said that he "turn his head slightly" without trying. That was God directing the bullet to just "graze Trump's ear". God could have directed the bullet anywhere to Trump's body and leave only a superficial wound. God selected the ear. Why??? God is telling us to "listen up". Draw your own conclusions. Yes, "that's how life works". Many thanks for bringing it up. My conclusion is Joe Biden will be our next Pres. Fear always "trumps" anger. 😄😄😄
I once read Neal Postman’s book “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”. It’s from 1985. So almost 40 years old. What he predicted is here now. It’s not about rationality and skills anymore. It’s how you perform in a show. And about people who’d rather choose to consume that show than to think for themselves
@triplea7536 In this instance, the underlying conditions are governmental/party structure and the incentives for representatives to run/act. Nothing really insightful, just a fish rots from the head type stuff.
@@triplea7536The Bicameral nature of the system is not the only problem in the system but since it's the example you choose... You don't think an ultra competive, donor driven, winner take all, two party system doesn't increase incentives to elimate your competition? How is it not zero sum? Game theory is the closest thing we have to science on that subject. It doesn't turn out well in simulation. As much as we view mental illness as an individual problem it's likely hood of occurence within a society increases under certain environmental conditions, stressor, You want less craziness create a society with less stressors.
@triplea7536 FYI, oh trust me, I looked it up. I assumed you were using it very losely since I made no mention of the house or congress, and the video is about political violence between 2 parties. Lmao, and what is your analysis? Ther is not a problem. This is a feature, not a bug? I said govermental/party structure. Party funding is a part of party structure, and parties are part of a federal election, which is regulated by a federal agency that Congress has oversight of so...... if a party is expressing the will of the donors and not the public, it is not representative and might choose not to excerise its oversight duties or do it in away that enshrines the current 2 party system into both custom and process. Then, if one party decides not to hold a fair election, if it holds elections at all, then we have lost universal sufferage and all you have a meaningless vote for which donors interest get expressed by an ever shrinking percentage of the population, especially with an eletoral college element base on creating equality not amoung the voter but the states. Most current US representives spend most of their time fundraising. With donors. I don't know why we are pretending the system is something it is not, but we do. So, the assumption I think you have wrong is that I think we can salvage the existing system and would argue that making changes to it would make it substantially better or we should switch to some other currently adopted system. I wouldn't. I was suspending my normal accelerationistic instinct. That making small tweaks to the existing system is what I think would be acceptable to someone like Ian Bremmer and might make a vent hole that could release some pressure and stop things from getting worse over the short term. Govermental/party structure and incen5ives to run/act are not the only factors, are not even the important factors, but they are factors the current narrative allow (will be surprised if this is not censored). What we need is a paradigm shift, and America is too complex for a few voices to express the system that's needed or similar enough to another nation for that system to work. Our system is a relic of an era where the fastest form of communication was horse and buggy or pigeon and business interest were typically family business interest not the interest of multinational players. The system made sense back then, now our representative democracy is inefficient, curpt, self-serving, and a danger to the world. No, this is not an argument for less democracy but more. While I have ideas for both the type of system I want as well as the type of process that would deliver it there is no sign the US would consider a different system yet nor have the politcal vocabulary to understand it yet. So why would I go there, I am not getting paid to fix it (we do live in a kinda captialist society after all), nor do I have the power to do anything about it. I am not going to spend my time arguing someone that's doesn't appear to be doing so in good faith. When I talked about stressor, I mean basic Maslows hiarchy type stuff, not coddling. The type of things the normal person kills for. I'm not sure where you're from, but you seem to have a rosey opinion of life in America. An affluent type or maybe one that gets informed by what is exported as "American culture." A normal person isn't worried about which MAGA is pandering, red or blue. It is a binary choice between the figureheads of decline, which is noted by the often used lesser of evils arguement that gets trouted out every cycle. It is all just tribal entertainment. Normal people are worrying about feeding themselves, paying rent, sickness, and war. Our shooter wasn't an elite while his target was, and I promise you he didn't decide to throw it all away because his life was going well. To the shooter, the factors certainly were not govermental/party structure or incentives of representives to run/act that made him think martyrdom was the answer. My original comment and replies are an answer to the question that is the title of the video. No, I don't think "America can come together after the Trump assassination attempt". As such, it has the context of the current US system, the shooter, and the current ziegiest of what is possible from the perspective of the author. It wasn't a projection nor insight into my other opinions or beliefs. Competiveness can be healthy for a system. It can also not be. Again, see game theory. A stressor can be a mechanism for growth or can be a trigger for a psychological break it depends on the nature of the stressor and the ability of the individual to take effective action to deal with it. Nothing is good or bad, and this ain't black or white. It is not arithmetic or baking it's system analysis of a complex system that includes human beings, so there are no certainities but if we have two parties ready to fight, having them compete with a referee tuned cheerleader (current state of the 4th estate) and are not expecting violence, that is something special. Again, not insightful, many founders worried it would boil down to exactly this type of system. This was the expected outcome. Sorry for the edits written while installing a 360 camera system.
@RmnGnzlz I'm absolutely serious. Evangelical Christian's have been pushing since the 70s/80s to get enough power to push their agenda. The evangelicals' wet dream would be for everyone to act like their idea of Christians whether they are or they aren't.
America has been heading towards authoritarianism for a long time....American democracy is less democracy than Commonwealth countries....with an old king as head of state. Europe was on the brink of fascism, but they remember their history....the US never had that lesson.
As someone in the middle who has never, and will never vote for Biden or Trump, this is completely blind sighted and ignorant. Both “sides” of the media have been driving derision and division. At the absolute bare minimum, the mainstream liberal agenda has equal blame.
I feel this interviewee is getting Trump’s message wrong. I think that this politician has self-aggrandizing behavior and it’s not a huge moral win. I think Trump pumping his fist in the air feels like he’s cashing in on this incident. I wish we could have 2 different candidates smh.
He’s 100% cashing in on it. The men who have crushes on him are flaunting this image everywhere. Yet…. Plenty of resistance figures throughout history have done far more heroic acts, yet they’re seen as “disruptive” Okay wow I went on a tangent 😅😅, but yeah unfortunately we’re stuck with… these two 😭
Honestly, he has shifted his tone. He wants to have someone moderate (in his opinion, Ian Bremmer) in the Trump admin, presenting the counterargument. Guy does risk analysis and is brilliant at it. Its the right play.
No. social media in its currnt format... not possible for us to come together in fact I think it's being used to inflame the divide. Destined to get much worse, none save billionaires could stop it. Yet, they have a vested interest in continuing the divide. We have no chance.😢😢
21:24 [The majority of those promoting political information: their analysis is not distinguishable from personal ideology. It becomes useless as analysis.]
I love Ian Bremmer's analysis, he is spot on how our current global politics have become and how people think politically. Lots of wisdom here. Thanks Ian!
A fact that Ian Bremmer missed. The Secret Service shouted out before Trump was helped to his feet and did the iconic fist salute: "Shooter down! Shooter down!". Trump may not have heard it but it was clear on some feeds from the event. He did have the presence of mind to ask for his shoes as he was helped to his feet so I believe he thought that he was safe. I still concur with his assessment as this fact reinforces his opinion.
This could be an opportunity, a time of healing. Despite of our differences, background, and conviction, we can still make good out of this. It's never too late to learn to love, forgive and understand one another as fellow human beings again.
Why cant we just have Ian or someone like Ian as president or more in powerful position to improve america's political state. Its very frustrating. This guy is so...solid, he's like the reality in a fantasy world.
I am from the rustbelt and now live in NYC. I am GREATFUL that the core of this country- the forgotten class- now has a voice through JD Vance. I left the Democrat party who have become a condescending voice for the "haves" and who represent group think and deplore the "have nots". I am disgusted by my former party and am grateful that I, too, have woken up. Trump/Vance 2024!
I hope so. I just really hope so. The kid who took the shot and tried to do it, he was seemingly equally on both sides of the political spectrum, and I think that context might help defuse tension between both sides. He was a representation of both sides at their worst maybe. I just hope it sobers us up so we can actually just unite as a nation's people again, instead of just continuing to fight each other... There's more to the election results than just who becomes president.
You must be talking about white Americans coming together. We in the black American community understand the use of “Americans” don’t apply to us, when it comes to Caucasians.
23:44 up until this point, after he said "the problem isn't TOO much capitalism..." I thought he was going to talk about how corporations THEMSELVES are anathema to the free market ?
The percentage of the economy that is government spending has never been higher then it is right now and what we call the big businesses are better seen as subcontracted components of that government.
“They are both far too old” . Everyone keeps saying Biden is “too old” it’s not his age that’s a problem . It’s his cognitive function . Many people that are 10 years older than Biden would do a far better job and can out wit people 50 years younger than him.
Elon has a pro business views, sort of Ayn Rand style and in the Republican vein. He is also trying to make X profitable. One way is to promote engagement with inflammatory politics. He may be hoping Trump will now show leadership instead of partisan rhetoric. Although Trump has been testing policies lately.
This guy Ian Bremmer looks just pitiable to me. He sounds quite reasonable and soft unlike the polarized commentators on CNN or Fox News, but essentially he belongs to the same warmongering neocon hypocrite clan you see on CNN or other European news outlets. The only difference is that he is less delusional and knows well there are formidable challenges to American hegemony now and it might not be easy for America to regain its unipolar supremacy, so he cleverly tones down his rhetoric and sounds conciliatory on domestic and global matters, but we can see through the mask where he comes from. The same hypocrisy about threats to democracy, international rule-based order, and all that old drivel. These people are so arrogant, though a bit subtly, that they can not accept for a second that Russia and China have equally valid reason to go for their self-interest just as the US and the Europeans have to go tor theirs. And if they really believe and do so even once, they will not be seen again on the screen and their living will be under threat because they have so far made a career out of serving as the mouthpiece of western hypocrisy, pandering the old drivel to pick scraps thrown to them by warmongers.
I love the lament that Musk will boost Trump, when in 2020 every major social media shut down voices that didn't sing Biden's praises every moment including moderate journalists. It would be great if we communicated on neutral platforms but competing partisan ones is better than everything being skewed to one side.
God loves you and cares for you so that this message reaches you. God is the one who created this large universe and controls it completely. The greatest loss a person loses in this life is that he lives without knowing God who created him and knowing the Messenger of Muhammad, the last of the messengers, and the Islamic religion, the last of the heavenly religions. Great intelligence, before you believe in something or not, is to read it, study it, and understand it well, and after that you have the choice to believe in it or not to believe in it. I advise you to do this now, before you no longer have time to do so. Life is very short. It is just a test, just a passage to eternal life. Great advice to those who... Understands
