Posted on 06/29/2018 8:39:03 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
If you haven’t already noticed, let me be the first on your block to point it out: The big mainstream political parties across the industrialized world are all blowing up at once. It’s quite extraordinary.
The U.S. Republican Party has blown up in all but name, going overnight from an internationalist, free-trade, deficit-hawk party to a protectionist, anti-immigrant, deficit-dove party — all to accommodate the instincts of Donald Trump and his base.
Italy’s last election ended with its mainstream center-left getting crushed, bringing to power instead a coalition of far-left, far-right populists, whose focus ranges from guaranteeing minimum income for Italy’s 11 percent unemployed to rebuffing immigrants and the European Union.
Britain’s Labour Party has gone from center-left to quasi-Marxist. And the Brexit-loving Tories, having pushed Britain to exit the E.U. without any plan, are now divided and paralyzed over how to implement the economic suicide they’ve promised voters.
The U.S. Democrats are fractured between a Bernie Sanders quasi-socialist wing and a center-left wing, but are glued together for now — thank goodness — by the overriding need to defeat Trump. German Chancellor Angela Merkel took four months to form a barely coherent governing coalition, after her ruling party got hammered in the last election — and that fragile coalition may soon implode over immigration tensions. And French President Emmanuel Macron leads a centrist party that did not exist three years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Because no one wants to live on your flat world.
The First World's becoming the Party of Trump... freedom keeps chaos at bay...
The Third world's becoming the parties of Commie Carnival barkers offering wealth transfers in exchange for devolving into a Venezuelan hellhole. Delusion keeping chaos at bay for a time...
And the answer?
Switch incentives so power of - and 'to be' a hellhole - is taken 'off the table'...
Arrogant stupidity based on intellectual vapidity.
I would've used 'unglued' but that's just me.
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