In this eighth survey of the web, the WAWG index group average was down by 26 percent from April 2006. Of the fourteen items tracked, all 14 were down. The cumulative change for the index is still up 26 percent.
The downtrend for “scapegoats as a unifying cause†and “media control†dropped another 8 percent.
The biggest drop was 74 percent for “disdain and suppression of intellectuals”. This was followed by a 73 drop in “avid militarism,” and a 63 percent drop for “powerful patriotic nationalism.”
On the one hand, patriotism divides citizens into multiple factions based on variable notions of a nation and its history. On the…
Voters have witnessed a long history of peaceful Executive leadership change. However, we’ve just seen, 1/6/2021, how fragile that transition…
This is about the need for national efforts to stop enabling haters (individuals and political parties) from optimizing their hunting…
In 2030, the entire world is condemned to extreme inequality, slavery, baby farms with women dressed in red and world domination as originally…
Any nation with either an authoritarian political system or an authoritarian economic system, like predatory capitalism, is susceptible to totalitarianism.…