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To review from this diary:

Deontology: about the extent to which doing a particular thing is a good-in-itself. Wikipedia:

We Can Hope!

Some writers, for instance David Sirota at the Lever, are seeing a bit of good news in all the crap coming from United State’s current politics - like the Democratic Party's Moment of Reckoning. Some of the new candidates are ‘radical’ compared to the usual Democrat stock-in-trade, and more of these ‘radical’ candidates are appearing. And that is a good thing.

Sirota begins his article with:

A decade after Bernie Sanders almost tore the presidential nomination out of the decrepit hands of the Democratic establishment, the party’s old guard, ancient political formulas, and outdated corporate politics seem to finally be facing a moment of comeuppance. The long-overdue reckoning appears to be happening not just in a few predictably liberal locales, but across varied swaths of the country that seem ready to embrace populist politics.

Or, "If this is Tuesday, this must be Nato."
It looks like Trump is succeeding in destroying Nato, knowingly or foolishly. His demands for them to come to his aid in opening up the Hormuz have gone unheeded. Talk about scattering like rats.

Australia took the radical step in banning social media for users less than 16 years old.

I can see the intent behind the law. When the internet was nascent we learned about the "stranger danger" creeping around every corner. Individuals can, and did, reach out to do young people harm. But now the danger is coming from the people who created the websites, not the people who use them.