HOW lucky we are to have someone in charge of the country that may believe in thinking before acting. Recent Coalition leadership has been all too ready to shoot first and mop up later and there seem to be dangerous adherents to that philosophy still active among the ranks of the bully loyalists.
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Fortunately the current President of the US seems thoughtful as well and even Russian leader Putin seemed to be taking a more reasonable line, until the Turks shot up his fighter plane so we have to wait and see the outcome of that. Although the world seems to be a more dangerous place than ever, the general consensus seems to be that the shoot 'em up approach employed in Afghanistan and Iraq only made bad situations worse and even the Vietnam War was a needless disaster in the long view.
Meanwhile "no wrecking, no undermining, no sniping" Abbott seems at work breaking another promise as he positions himself as leader of the hairy chests and rednecks in a series of speaking engagements at home and abroad; maybe he does have his eye on a comeback after all. But perhaps there is a sign that the general attitude of citizens around the world might be changing.
Bernie Sanders is making something of a splash in the American election campaign, giving voice and attracting support for a style of socialism that has been anathema in the jungle of free market capitalism; Justin Trudeau has led the social democratic Liberal Party to victory over the Conservatives in Canada and Jeremy Corbyn, a fairly hard-line socialist, is now head of the British Labour Party.
Maybe. just maybe, people are waking up to the idea that the globe would be a better place if its bounty and opportunities were more evenly distributed and some planning for the future was involved rather than leaving everything to the whim of vested interest and the jungle of the market.
