{"id":7346,"date":"2020-01-08T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T09:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7346"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","slug":"2020-another-year-of-living-dangerously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/08\/2020-another-year-of-living-dangerously\/","title":{"rendered":"2020: Another Year Of Living Dangerously"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Daily\nNation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The year 2019 ended with widespread demos, rising inequality and a crisis of representation in many countries. The world is sleepwalking toward recession and a new crisis while depleting the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some 61 countries will have presidential or parliamentary elections. Many citizens are tired of conventional orthodox policies; they want to change, and they will choose new parties to achieve this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POPULIST\nRHETORIC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an\nopportunity to redress the situation but many of the emerging leaders are\nfar-right demagogues who blame social-welfare policies, migrants and the poor\nwhile aiming to remove all constraints on capital. As in the United Kingdom,\nmany will vote for these politicians, making the world more unequal and\nriskier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot will\nbe decided in the United States, still the world\u2019s hegemonic power. How US\ncitizens vote in the presidential election will have profound consequences for\nthe rest of the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US\nPresident Donald Trump has already had a big impact on the world, eroding\nmultilateral institutions, trade agreements and global initiatives in his\n\u201cAmerica First\u201d agenda. Despite the populist rhetoric, Americans in the main\nhave benefited little. His large tax cuts for the wealthy, healthcare access\ncuts and increases in the defence budget are regressive, resulting in increased\ninequality. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/oped\/opinion\/Another-year-of-living-dangerously\/440808-5409918-gi5766z\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation The year 2019 ended with widespread demos, rising inequality and a crisis of representation in many countries. The world is sleepwalking toward recession and a new crisis&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}