Democracies in crisis from US to Africa to Asia

A protester takes part in a march and rally against separation of immigrant families on June 30, 2018 outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Los Angeles, California. PHOTO | AFP

On the one hand, it is said that humanity has never had it so good. I want to believe, because of the wonders of science and especially modern medicine and the magic of the Internet, which I love but do not understand at all.

Then, on the other hand, you turn on the news and Donald Trump is President of the United States and they are stealing children at the border with Mexico. Oh, and then the president of the deeply religious Philippines called God stupid. You couldn’t make any of this up if you tried.