Exasperated by the bunglers of our politics, the big American debate could bring us the superficial bitter consolation that even the goat of the great neighbor is not doing well at all. In fact, it is an additional reason for concern, a very big one, because even a sneeze of the great goat causes real pneumonias in the rest of the world.
And the American goat not only sneezes, but is in great distress. Let’s leave aside the fact that the youngest Western civilization has reached the paradox of choosing between two candidates with a combined age of about 160 years, but the options are terrible. What to choose between a decrepit and a misfit? Between a senile and an amoral person?
Sure, at least the Americans have the guarantee that a strong and professional establishment will not let things go haywire no matter on what fields of senility or bumbling the president may frolic, but this is just a backup system.
It's hard to understand how the great American democracy has produced nothing but this lamentable offer.
But the rest of the goats are not in the best shape either. Germany is sliding towards extremism, which in the case of the Germans is the equivalent of a nuclear alert.
British conservatives are heading towards a historic defeat.
In France, President Macron is perfecting his political failure with some apparently furious, in any case inexplicable, elections that could push the country and even Europe into an unprecedented crisis.
Ursula von der Leyen is a mediocre leader in whose mandate the rift between European citizens and Brussels has deepened, and as a result, sovereigntism has flourished in Europe and has an unprecedented representation in the European Parliament. Worse, we have seen from Mrs. von der Leyen a sort of "dragnism" when the EC decided to underfund the European Prosecutor's Office when it targeted the vaccine affair.
In these conditions, it is not even surprising that Vladimir Putin felt a very good moment to try a total overturn of the rules and order first regionally and then, most likely, globally.
Why do political systems in increasingly technologically advanced countries, more comfortable in terms of well-being, with greater access to information and education produce weaker political classes and leaders? It is a question that could have its answer precisely in the premises.
Too good, too relaxed, too secure a life atrophies demands, principles, and focus on major issues, favoring a slide into minor themes and micromanaged interests that waste all energies.
In other words, we have solved the big problems, we focus on trivialities with people who are good at trivialities until, what do you know?, the big problems reappear. I do not claim that this is more than a hypothesis. The fact is that not only Romania, where things have even touches of black humor, but most democracies in the world are going through a major leadership crisis.
One thing is certain: the political class is in each country a representative sample of society. It is neither better nor worse than society as a whole, with its strata. It is a mirror. And what it shows now should terrify us.