A Dying Mule

A dying mule kicks the hardest. (Illustration created by ChatGPT 4 using prompts written by Darren Phillips on May 27, 2025. Illustration modified by Darren Phillips using Adobe Photoshop.)

This is a very comprehensive and accurate analysis of what's happening. The present unraveling of the world order instituted after World War ll is both insidious and amazingly vivid. It is both easy and difficult to ignore. America's nativist drift toward authoritarianism coupled with Brexit and the simultaneous surge of nativism across Europe will ultimately place "white people" on the wrong side of history. What's the old saying? A dying mule kicks the hardest? ☕︎

Note: Image added in 2025.

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