Polarised politics

A recent and long overdue rebalancing of political power play is noted on social media - the formation of a Progressive International. .. players onstage including Yanis Varoufakis, Jeff Sachs, Bernie Sanders, and Ada Colau ... recognising that in an increasingly interconnected world, where the economic system is almost entirely capitalist, albeit cloaked in deceptive forms as in China, and dominated by multi-national corporations with enormous wealth, enabling the purchase of politicians and the mainstream media to keep us all stupid enough to tolerate gross inequality, ongoing wars and planetary degradation, action on a supranational level is essential ...

Meanwhile, the French are revolting, having swallowed the story that Macron was the lesser of two evils and seen the continuation of the neoliberal programme ... whilst in the USA it went the other way, with the Clinton dynasty rejected in favour of a rabid populist president ... replacing the supposedly civilised Obama, who nevertheless oversaw the widening gap between rich and poor and the ongoing plan to restructure the Middle East, started by Bush the younger, aided and abetted by a Labour Prime Minister in the UK ... media narratives rely on short memories and focus on the desperate plight of millions of refugees fleeing the chaos created by the war crimes of the Western powers ... and the game goes on, with Obama M being prepared for future presidential dynastic succession once the tide of public opinion, quite evenly split between right and so-called left turns again ... Tweedledum and Tweedledee ...

Sunday Telegraph offers rare glimpse of a previously unvisited parallel universe, where actors playing patriotic anti-EU roles are taken seriously ... whilst wavering PM, personally pro and posing as anti succeeds in setting scene for collapse of exit strategy and succession of radical PM, personally anti with a majority of MPs and members pro ... though erstwhile Telegraph journalist and current friend predicts collapse of EU itself ... and he got the referendum result right ...

All of which detracts from spiritual matters, though continued learning from Alan Wallace and others, plus daily early rising, walking the fells and woods and service in the community keep things more or less on track ...