Dope Tech Episode 2

<<@dorothylewis5864 says : Good point Fareed, as always, washing its dirty laundry in public, 1 of the costs of freedom, but yes, I support freedom dirty laundry still.>> <<@ricardoagostinho1905 says : People are more desperate than ever!! Really?!?! Don’t be ridiculous! You know better, you are smart and know history. There were 2 world wars, plagues that killed half of mankind, conquerers that kill a third of the known world. Easy to believe that people looking at a 4k TV while seating in a sofa inside a house with warm water and electricity, to then go comment in their smart phones about the situation are the most desperate people ever!! Ridiculous and just commercial news!! Be better!>> <<@2Uglukraid says : The reason why the worlds go from yellow to red is that the top hat Fareed Zakaria does not mention the UN.>> <<@2Uglukraid says : India and China. What the fuck are they Thinking of all the hungry mouths they've created>> <<@ldt6513 says : Against autocracy? Thats nuts. Its turning strongly towards semi- dictarorships, including in the US. The UK is an exception. Perhaps also the Scandinavian countries, Poland, The Baltics and Germany... so far.>> <<@user-oi5tt7kk4c says : Russia is now a high-income country and sanctions have not worked. However, the structure of your lips is good when it comes to uttering skewed survey reports and their analysis. Hope Modi can make India or Bharat great again. You have forgotten about India where the Illegal Babri masjid was replaced with a Grand temple with gold and jewels.>> <<@alanserjeant4947 says : Europe are worried about Trump getting us into war ? He was the only president in my lifetime that didn't get us into ANY wars !! and I am an old fart.>> <<@kevinJmadsen says : Liberal democracy is incompatible with the consolidation of wealth and the subsequent corruption of government.>> <<@nickmcconnell1291 says : All I see in these surveys is the successful beating of war drums by Western power militaries and their controlled media.... and if you don't think they are controlled look up Project Mockingbird.... which though illegal, has never ended. Mark my words.... western media is slowly building up to play the same song that they did before the US invaded Iraq. Except this time it will be against formidable adversaries that actually DO have weapons of mass destruction. Weapons aimed at us right now. These will be wars that no one can win because any side seeing that it is losing will cause global nuclear devastation. Make Peace Not War!>> <<@nmarks says : Narcotics, sexual excess, materialism, hubris, demagoguery. When a nation is under such influence, its demise is close. I'm looking at you, America.>> <<@anandawijesinghe6298 says : Yes, we in the West have lived in a stable world, while sowing instability, violence and poverty elsewhere in the world at the beck and call of Western Hegemony ! As Einstein said, its all Relative to the Observer ! Get with it; open your eyes ! 😭>> <<@kcventures720 says : We hear a steady drumbeat from the GOP and Trump about how terrible the country is. This is amplified by the MSM 24/7 who profit from the fear and despair. Turn off the TV, people! There are alternative, truthful sources of information out there.>> <<@Gamla123 says : "should come as a wakeup call to Israelis" For what? Defending ourselves? You do all this analysis and you can't even figure out that there is an inherent majority of people who will hate us no matter what we do? 🤬🤬🤬>> <<@berniemaopolski4870 says : Yea the choice of west vs China or Russia was also answered for the latter by people who will vote for trump or other authoritarian figures in their countries. This gave me no hope at all😢>> <<@handsomestik says : Fight globalism>> <<@christiestratton8005 says : Mister Zakaria, Sir, please consider adopting a pessimistic position. The situation is far too critical to grasp for optimism. The Russian people are not the Russian Government. However, the Russian government must be stopped. Before containment can even be considered, the United States must return to some degree of stability. We have no other foci. We have no choice. Those of us who seek peace - just peace - without ambitions for prosperity must, we must halt the advance of hate and prejudice. How can we not prioritize the stability of the U.S. and the containment of Putin?>> <<@Gaudium-b4d says : The USA and Europe have benefitted and profited from countries that it caused and influence autocracies. The greed has gotten so great that the powers that be do not care what happens. They feel their financial power secures them from harm. It's been shown over and over again that greed topples empires. The "Western World" is facing the same fate.>> <<@nodavood says : You are trying to divide the world and push for Western unipolar world too. This is not a fight between good vs bad. West is losing its shit over the rise of China and other blocks. Putin even wanted to Join NATO. You are the a**holes here bro. And please shut up about the Western values. 45% of the US don't want democracy. They want tribal control of wealth and power.>> <<@Skycouncil_Sentinel_777 says : Take a stand against the djt crime syndicate, save America!>> <<@palmereldritch_6669 says : That may be true everywhere but the USA, which got lazy and allowed Russia, China, SA, and other bad actors to steal the narrative and turn 1/3 of the population into Trump cultists. And that may very well be enough to win him the election again. Because the only other option is Biden, and he appears to be losing. He is not inspiring, and what the Dems need is TURNOUT. And they won't get enough of it in swing states. Unfortunately, that's all that matters. A few swing states' turnout. Silly, but it's what we have.>> <<@BreadLightPray_EWFMgtr says : "The Great Controversy between Christ and Satan" Ellen G. White, 1888, rev.1911 modern day passages from a true modern day Prophet of God.... Chapter 16—The Pilgrim Fathers In that grand old document which our forefathers set forth as their bill of rights—the Declaration of Independence—they declared: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” And the Constitution guarantees, in the most explicit terms, the inviolability of conscience: “No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” GC 295.2 “The framers of the Constitution recognized the eternal principle that man’s relation with his God is above human legislation, and his rights of conscience inalienable. Reasoning was not necessary to establish this truth; we are conscious of it in our own bosoms. It is this consciousness which, in defiance of human laws, has sustained so many martyrs in tortures and flames. They felt that their duty to God was superior to human enactments, and that man could exercise no authority over their consciences. It is an inborn principle which nothing can eradicate.”—Congressional documents (U.S.A.), serial No. 200, document No. 271. GC 295.3 Chapter 25—God’s Law Immutable “And he had two horns like a lamb.” The lamblike horns indicate youth, innocence, and gentleness, fitly representing the character of the United States when presented to the prophet as “coming up” in 1798. Among the Christian exiles who first fled to America and sought an asylum from royal oppression and priestly intolerance were many who determined to establish a government upon the broad foundation of civil and religious liberty. Their views found place in the Declaration of Independence, which sets forth the great truth that “all men are created equal” and endowed with the inalienable right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” And the Constitution guarantees to the people the right of self-government, providing that representatives elected by the popular vote shall enact and administer the laws. Freedom of religious faith was also granted, every man being permitted to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience. Republicanism and Protestantism became the fundamental principles of the nation. These principles are the secret of its power and prosperity. The oppressed and downtrodden throughout Christendom have turned to this land with interest and hope. Millions have sought its shores, and the United States has risen to a place among the most powerful nations of the earth. GC 441.1 Such action would be directly contrary to the principles of this government, to the genius of its free institutions, to the direct and solemn avowals of the Declaration of Independence, and to the Constitution. The founders of the nation wisely sought to guard against the employment of secular power on the part of the church, with its inevitable result—intolerance and persecution. The Constitution provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” and that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” Only in flagrant violation of these safeguards to the nation’s liberty, can any religious observance be enforced by civil authority. But the inconsistency of such action is no greater than is represented in the symbol. It is the beast with lamblike horns—in profession pure, gentle, and harmless—that speaks as a dragon. GC 442.2 Chapter 36—The Impending Conflict.... Those who teach the people to lightly regard the commandments of God, sow disobedience, to reap disobedience. Let the restraint imposed by the divine law be wholly cast aside, and human laws would soon be disregarded. Because God forbids dishonest practices, coveting, lying, and defrauding, men are ready to trample upon his statutes as a hindrance to their worldly prosperity; but the results of banishing these precepts would be such as they do not anticipate. If the law were not binding, why should any fear to transgress? Property would no longer be safe. Men would obtain their neighbor’s possessions by violence; and the strongest would become richest. Life itself would not be respected. The marriage vow would no longer stand as a sacred bulwark to protect the family. He who had the power, would, if he desired, take his neighbor’s wife by violence. The fifth commandment would be set aside with the fourth. Children would not shrink from taking the life of their parents, if by so doing they could obtain the desire of their corrupt hearts. The civilized world would become a horde of robbers and assassins; and peace, rest, and happiness would be banished from the earth. GC88 585.1 Satan works through the elements also to garner his harvest of unprepared souls. He has studied the secrets of the laboratories of nature, and he uses all his power to control the elements as far as God allows. When he was suffered to afflict Job, how quickly flocks and herds, servants, houses, children, were swept away, one trouble succeeding another as in a moment. It is God that shields His creatures and hedges them in from the power of the destroyer. But the Christian world have shown contempt for the law of Jehovah; and the Lord will do just what He has declared that He would—He will withdraw His blessings from the earth and remove His protecting care from those who are rebelling against His law and teaching and forcing others to do the same.Satan has control of all whom God does not especially guard. He will favor and prosper some in order to further his own designs, and he will bring trouble upon others and lead men to believe that it is God who is afflicting them. GC 589.2 While appearing to the children of men as a great physician who can heal all their maladies, he will bring disease and disaster, until populous cities are reduced to ruin and desolation. Even now he is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous. Destruction will be upon both man and beast. “The earth mourneth and fadeth away,” “the haughty people ... do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.” Isaiah 24:4, 5. GC 589.3 And then the great deceiver will persuade men that those who serve God are causing these evils. The class that have provoked the displeasure of Heaven will charge all their troubles upon those whose obedience to God’s commandments is a perpetual reproof to transgressors. It will be declared that men are offending God by the violation of the Sunday sabbath; that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced; and that those who present the claims of the fourth commandment, thus destroying reverence for Sunday, are troublers of the people, preventing their restoration to divine favor and temporal prosperity. Thus the accusation urged of old against the servant of God will be repeated and upon grounds equally well established: “And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.” 1 Kings 18:17, 18. As the wrath of the people shall be excited by false charges, they will pursue a course toward God’s ambassadors very similar to that which apostate Israel pursued toward Elijah. GC 590.1 Through the two great errors, the immortality of the soul and Sunday sacredness, Satan will bring the people under his deceptions. While the former lays the foundation of spiritualism, the latter creates a bond of sympathy with Rome. The Protestants of the United States will be foremost in stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of spiritualism; they will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power; and under the influence of this threefold union, this country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience. GC 588.1 The dignitaries of church and state will unite to bribe, persuade, or compel all classes to honor the Sunday. The lack of divine authority will be supplied by oppressive enactments. Political corruption is destroying love of justice and regard for truth; and even in free America, rulers and legislators, in order to secure public favor, will yield to the popular demand for a law enforcing Sunday observance. Liberty of conscience, which has cost so great a sacrifice, will no longer be respected. In the soon-coming conflict we shall see exemplified the prophet’s words: “The dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Revelation 12:17. GC 592.3>> <<@nathupatel894 says : You dont know what you have until its gone.>> <<@ML-ev1pz says : Zakaria here is whitewashing Western domination. Western world lived in peace, while the rest of us were burning.>> <<@nmdakini358 says : I hope you’re right about this. The level of disinformation and outright hate toward our democracy is beyond worrisome.>> <<@anthonygriffin1958 says : There's a reason why people should invest in doing the homework or research about the facts regarding the world of politics on a global scale. 📚 📖 🌎>> <<@Audittheauditors2 says : "The West is allowing Taiwan to choose freely how they live." I was born in "Taiwan." Our country is NOT called "Taiwan" but the "ROC." The US threw the ROC under the bus in 1971 in order to get the Chinese communists to do what the US wants. Perhaps the West would tell the truth for once.>> <<@NoHurriesNoWorries says : Uhhhh no .. the tides are turning into autocracy globally>> <<@Gary-zq3pz says : Autocracies are falling, including the Biden-Harris administration. Israel is too busy trying to hold off extermination at the hand of all thier nieghbors to worry about opinion polls.>> <<@duyataksis5210 says : "If you don't like a world dominated by Western power and ideals, would you prefer Russian or Chinese ones?" Yes.>> <<@hammill444 says : Uh, no. Global tides are not turning against autocracy. Especially in the US.>> <<@johnnykay7411 says : This simple, exacting, prescient editorial may be Fareed Zakaria's best work to date. Bravo.>> <<@maureencora1 says : United Nations Are Paper Tigers. Where the Good Guys At?>> <<@djan959 says : You'll make a cool million on that book.. autocracy my ass. It's all about money ain't a damn thing funny>> <<@lavenberry says : It's not hard to get past the divisions. People need to stop seeing their party with rose colored glasses on and stop seeing the other side as the enemy. In addition, stop blaming people who aren't at the table making decisions for all of your problems. Knowledge is power. Use it.>> <<@cleopatra3206 says : The reason a lot of people still think US are the good guys is because of decades of mind programming by the us media and Hollywood. Every US president has bombed some poor countries, yet they are the good guys and the CPC is evil. Rising 800 Million out of poverty, still evil. Go figure.>> <<@kevindeklerk7401 says : The real reason men think of the Roman Empire a few times a day is because they think about how civilizations fall, decline and eventually collapse whenever they sit down for a cup of coffee and read current affairs. There is an overall conscious and subconscious realization that the systems are failing. 1) World governments represent institutionalized corruption or mafia states. 2) Democracy ending with very bad options of leadership. 3) The decreasing moderate and independent centralism as polarization increases. 4) The trend towards self, identity and our individual rights over the rights of others. 5) The growing lack of human and empathetic dialogue with technology and shortening attention span does not bode well for the positive reflection and careful contemplation and relationship building. 6) Our connections and talking points are less about real human connection but highlights of the things that divide us. 7) The lack of accountability to a higher power or purpose. 8) And more ... economic collapse and high cost of living, geopolitical and resource wars, fear of nuclear war, over population, oppression and annihilation, record heat, climate change and our environment.The optimism is the small peaks in an overall downward decline towards a systemic collapse.>> <<@rodheywood9430 says : Appreciate this bigger picture perspective. Thank you very much.👍🏼>> <<@jasonodonnell5177 says : I have to disagree with this Polyanna view. The poll seems to focus on external threats to democracy. However, there has been a swing worldwide, USA included, towards nationalism and autocratic leadership. Like Hitler, these autocratic leaders have been swept into power using populism. Once in power, they have taken efforts to cement their control by eroding democratic mechanisms. We are still deeply entrenched in this cycle. While I know we will eventually swing back towards liberalism overall, I do not see that swing happening any time soon.>> <<@agoodchow says : Because you observed and collected data in Europe and USA you saw only part of the picture. You go to visit at least a dozen countries in Global South and selectively stay two weeks in some of these Global South, then you come back to write another book and do any talk.>> <<@chairde says : The Ukraine war is a self inflicted wound for Russia. Putin ruined Russia all by himself.>> <<@fallonmassey4714 says : *Get a grip, Sanctions are ONLY implemented by Authoritarian Dictators! America & Europe do not believe in any of those things!* *Here's why! Sanctions ignore any Rule of Law, there's no due process, no appeal, it's unilateral theft!* The West, which has never earned anything we have & *only uses Murder, Theft & Terrorism to grow, does these things!* *The West is also the greatest evil inflicted on mankind in the history of the planet, let that FACT sink in! Proof available!*>> <<@CilVine says : I agree.>> <<@Aymenadhami says : He said while the far right in France is winning the elections and Trump is ahead in the polls>> <<@davidpulido2942 says : Fareed you're making me laugh. Already had four years of Trump close to four years of Biden. Yeah, I'll vote, Trump. Also why does America have to defend Western Europe. Each of those Countries have a military. America should not be the worlds policeman.>> <<@ChillSydneyWebSurfer says : how do people figure out the answer to the question? why does it matter what 700 ppl (average of 31 countries) think>> <<@donaldgossett1736 says : So why is CNN bashing Biden?>> <<@edaleme7880 says : What a bs propaganda>> <<@user-wt5bf4rw7e says : What about Gaza, when do they get to choose? Hypocrisy meter got broken again by Fareed.>> <<@BlueWingInn says : Yes!>> <<@georgedobler7490 says : It’s refreshing to hear from a free thinker on CNN.>>