O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
I'm just saying if some country has to be given that title, I think Colombia has the best case to make, not India. They've been an almost non-stop democracy for 200 years, through many civil wars.
If you look the history of modern Colombia, which is about 1819 till today, you will see a country that stuck with democracy as the way of government even through some horrific internal wars and terrorism and brutality and inequality.
Their only real dictator was invited, lol!
If you read about the scale of violence and conflict in Colombia, from the 1800s to Escobar's terrorism and the FARC and other such recent guerillas, it is really jaw droppingly amazing that the country never even really flirted with fascism.
India's very random choice of "Mother of Democracy" as a self honorific made me think.
I don't know if India is the mother of Democracy. I think Colombia deserves that title.
But one thing is for sure.
America is the Stepmother of Democracy! 🧵
The word democracy isn't in the US constitution cos the US was never meant to be a democracy at the beginning. Only land owning white males, 6% of the population, could vote for the first 50 years. Women couldn't vote for almost 150 years. Many black folks for almost 200 years.
In fact the first time the electorate was expanded to include all white men, a lot of people EXPLICITLY complained about the dangers of democracy.
So US is a stepmother in that it didn't exactly birth democracy but somehow got it later in life. And has to live with it.
GOP polls have started trending Trump's way again, after DeSantis enjoyed a brief lead. Since Trump started hammering him.
And I hear Trump plans to attack him from the left on Medicare & social security. 🤣 Like Ron will gut precious medicare/ss and I, Donald Trump, won't. 🤣🤣
I am so ready for the GOP primary debates in which Trump takes a pro Medicare social security position and much like at the state of the union, the GOP is absolutely confused about what to say in response. 🤣🤣🤣
Trump is a populist and the idea that Medicare and social security should be cut isn't a populist idea that will find favor with the masses. It's an idea from the Breitbart/Reason/Cato/Heritage/Norquist complex.
Bahaha, so now PNC Bank is "woke"? 🤣🤣 A bank doing bank like things is leftist? 🤣🤣🤣
The thing about the Trump's is that by the time they are done, no one will use "woke" as an insult anymore cos they will have stripped it of any larger meaning other than not pro-Trump.
I don't know if it's wokeism as much as good old fashioned fiduciary duty that is making @PNCBank sever ties with a client who is sure to be indicted and/or sued into bankruptcy. Imminently. With his father.
So let's start off which the fact that the Coke bottle's (and who eventually even thums-up bottle's) signature curvy shape was the result of a couple of aggressive Tennessee lawyers who did not like losing business to fakes!
I honestly can't think of any books. I don't read too many "business" books. Mostly academic papers & keeping an eye on the news and making copious notes every time I hear something interesting that I could use in class. For almost 20 years now. It's all inside the khopdi. 😁
I always draw a blank when people ask recommendations for business books because I don't read any. Too much academic stuff & texts to read.
My leisure reading is more about history. And I find that often has a lot of lessons for marketing too!
So much of history is Marketing!
For example, there's no business or marketing book that taught me the massive role commercially packaged and sold wheat flour in Rochester played in so much of modern American society, from labor laws to marketing strategies to even the very birth of propaganda advertising!