<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>On Thu, Oct 22, 2026 at 7:18 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-7180102079157356471"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_-7180102079157356471WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> </span></p><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> snip</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Ja the real estate business was a complete failure we hear.  Or not but the voters chose him twice because they see in him a reliable socialism fighter.</span></b></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I really doubt that. An EP model indicates that irrational leaders become attractive in the lead up to wars. The lead up to wars is triggered by a bleak outlook for the population. Consider where MAGA is most popular and it fits this model. Incidentally, absolute economic collapse is not required, just an outlook that is worse than what people are used to.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Keith<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-7180102079157356471"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_-7180102079157356471WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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