Last week a fascinating op-ed appeared in numerous Canadian newspapers. This may be the most important piece critical thinkers can read if they share deep concerns about America's ability to replicate the Lebaneses calamity on a broader and far more important scale.
It explores the disastrous nature of Lebanon's government from a starting point of the reflections of a Protestant missionary in 1870, and his conclusions as to why it would be and in fact is still a failed state.
Lebanonization is a term used to describe a country when politics, tribalism, national divisions, ethnic and sectarian tensions, ideological and cultural wars, and foreign meddling become so unmanageable they leave a country ungovernable.
From the reflections of Thomas Friedman come two themes. In the US, the political parties resemble Lebanon's religious sects in a zero-sum contest for power. They behave like rival tribes who believe they must rule or die. Second, as does the Middle East, America plays politics with climate change to face masks.
From this analysis is revealed a far more serious situation than anything recently raised with the electors, far more difficult than anything Biden imagines or that can be solved by his notion of working across the aisle. Donald Trump would not even be able to fathom the description of the issues.
Anerica is in very deep doo-doo.
This is a must-read for concerned citizens.