{"id":1355,"date":"2019-10-17T14:13:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2019-10-17T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:13:14","slug":"political-absurdity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"Political Absurdity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The adoption of two contradictory positions and the inability to get\nmeaning due to the adoption of these two contradictory positions gives the\ndefinition of absurdity. In politics, however, absurdity is a useful tool that enables\nthe politician who uses it (the absurd politician) to get the power of almost\ncomplete freedom of movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The demented politician may say whatever he wants one moment and at the\nnext point in time to negate what he said just before or he can do what he\nwants without considering any institutional or moral constraints that imposes\nhim his office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this way, the absurd politician can slippery like &#8220;eel&#8221; when\nhe is faced with a serious impasse, to cancel the content of the policy and\npolitics equally with his attitude and at the same time to encourage\narbitrariness, adventurism and to trigger the wrath of his political friends and opponents\nrespectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the Trump\u2019s presidency is verified an increasing ambiguous stance on\nPresident\u2019s Trump publicly stated positions on specific issues that his stance\nresembles political absurdity by disappointing and confusing both his political\nopponents and friends respectively as well as the traditional US allies in NATO\nand the Pacific Ocean. More specifically, President Trump vaccination:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8220;I deal with\nChina in trade and I win,&#8221; and then admits that the Sino-American trade\nwar can damage the US economy, while imposing tariffs on Chinese products by eliminating them one week later.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In the case of Iran\none minute it prepares to crush Iran and the next moment it offers to meet with\nthe president of the country.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In the case of North\nKorea, it constantly changes its view despite the growing challenges of\nKim-Jong-un<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He withdraws the US troops from Northern Syria, allowing Turkey to invade\nNorthern Syria and then announces that Turkey&#8217;s invasion of Northern Syria is a\nbad idea and if Turkey does something that it personally considers to be out of\nlimits, it will completely destroy Turkey\u2019s economy.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He announces that he\nloves the Kurds-the five-year-old US allies in the war against the Islamic\nState-but refuses to support them because they did not help the US in the\ninvasion of Normandy in WWII (forgetting that neither the Turks helped the US\nin the specific landing-invasion).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This type of President Trump&#8217;s political attitudes is not unprecedented since the planet has been accustomed to the same political behaviour by other authoritarian leaders around the world, e.g. Orban, Kim-Jong un, Erdogan, Putin, Duterte etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An attitude of political absurdity that wants the world and the institutions of a democracy to adjust each time in their own measures and standards and wants and not the vice versa which is the commonly accepted in all democracies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The political absurdity is accompanied or motivated by\nauthoritarianism and populism. The unfortunate thing currently is that the\nbehaviour of leaders which is characterised by political absurdity tends to\nbecome a rule rather than an exception to the world political scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time within this framework of extremism and demagogy formed by\nthe political absurdity bloom all the &#8220;buds&#8221; of the\nnational-populism, the far right and left respectively, racism and all types of\nsupporters of conspiracy theories, by spreading through the internet and\nsocial&nbsp; media&nbsp; fake news with aim to create more and more\nvictims of populism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The systematic and systemic distortion of reality, the constant\ncontradictions of political positions and the behaviour of political absurdity\nin general, undermine slowly and steadily the ability and capability of citizens to use rationalism as a tool of\ndecisions in order to jointly achieve social progress and well-being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The adoption of two contradictory positions and the inability to get meaning due to the adoption of these two contradictory positions gives the definition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,991],"tags":[655,1154],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns","category-feuilleton","tag-donald-trump","tag-political-absurdity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}