And when JJ Angleton ran the show?

Who would vet the gatekeepers?

Ballots have never been fair. Always biased in favour of the powerful. Paper ballots were rigged long before they became digital. The problem now is the scale of the rigging as software makes it so much easier on a wholesale basis.

Spot on. I ve been screaming at the tv for some time now at the media frenzy for change of leader. It would be treasonable in earlier times. Totally undemocratic.

I don't agree. Christianity declined with the rise of television in the 1960's presenting a mainstream alternative to the pulpit. Only in more recent yrs has the abuse of power been made public. The masses remain uninterested in the veracity of the myths and legends.

In the UK, that way of thinking was finally rectified during the reign of the Stuarts. I'm not envisaging that or a return of Cromwell's Commonwealth in the foreseeable future.

As you have written, "Established" christianity has been around for a while. Its power may have suffered recently under post war European socialism and mass media but it is still treated seriously in many parts of the USA. As the social democracy experiment runs its course, we may see a resurgence.

Senator McCarthy's witchhunt came to an abrupt end when he made the US military his target. One step too far. Lets see how the military responds.

The planet continued to revolve and hurl thru space at high speed despite the flat earth society's alternative viewpoint.

We're not starting with a tabula rasa. If we were, it would be simpler to implement yr suggestions. Travel is difficult enough within cities without the disruption required to re engineer towns wholesale. New towns may be the answer but Milton Keynes is not a role model.

A strategic decision was taken at the beginning of the 80s that the UK would be a "car" economy. A public transport / cycle economy requires a strategic reversal to which powerful forces oppose. Also, Holland is mostly flat and its infrastructure is built around its canals, unlike the UK.

Town and city centres are self defeating modern concepts. They become overwhelmed by their success. Only with smaller hubs can the cycling model succeed. But then you are faced with moving home if you move outside cycling distance.

Employers arent interested in your personal circumstances unless they infringe on your working hours. For instance, do you have a young family, do you need time to pray on Fridays etc. They expect you to have everything at hand already eg phone, car etc unless they specifically provide it.

Have you given any thought as to what might come after? The fall of the Soviet Union was an embarrassing shit show. They wont fall for the same plays. I'd like to western Russia absorbed into Europe and the rest form part of Canada. Hey ho.

My understanding is that nothing is factually known about the authors of the gospels as the gospels were not written contemporaneous with events, no original scripts survive, the first three synoptics are variations on Mark, and Tacitus is discredited as a corroberrator by objective historians.