As Reagan had the pleasure of Pope John Paul II and Margaret Thatcher to set the stage for defeat of USSR style communism,
So Trump might have the opportunity of Brexit, LePen, and others to move away from world government and towards countries with enlightened self-interest. Of course, violent war is never enlightened self-interest.
World Government and the EU made the mistake of trying to copy the union of 50 states to form a United States. But the one-worlders did not understand what made the US great, and a success.
The US is great because it establishes true free trade and does not impose tariffs between states. To the extent the US is great, it is because it recognizes the decentralized states as sovereign and capable of running themselves without a big central government. To the extent the US lost its greatness, it is because the Central Government usurped the power of local government.
Pre-EU, the EU was sold as similar to the US. But in fact, the EU replaced local government with oppressive, bureaucratic EU government. Whether the issue was immigration to the EU or religious freedom or taxes and bank regulation, the EU was run by arrogant technocrats who set policy based on their computer models. Their computer model was always right. The real world experience of the people was wrong ... because it did not fit the computer model.
Trump might have the opportunity to take most of the world in the direction of less centralized government and more enlightened self-interest of small/local governments.
I’m posting that on my Facebook page.
“Their computer model was always right. The real world experience of the people was wrong ... because it did not fit the computer model.”
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Yep,a Moneyball way of approaching things-——just like Hillary’s campaign.
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Exceptionally well said. Post of the day!