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When and Why the World Went Wrong
What exactly has gone wrong, and when and why? The open, democratic world order based on egalitarian rights and the rule of law — liberalism, for lack of a better term — is under increasing pressure. The signs, serious and less so, are everywhere.
The trend has now hit so many nations that the explanation has to be global. Social media are frequently cited as a driving force, but I would like to consider an alternative or perhaps complementary possibility for the breakdown of liberalism: As World War II and the Cold War recede in our collective memory, people in the West are simply becoming less cooperative.
Think back to the years during and after World War II. Western leaders created an unprecedented array of multilateral institutions, including NATO, the World Bank, the IMF, the Bretton Woods system, the United Nations, and what later became the World Trade Organization. These institutions found widespread levels of support both at home and abroad, and they persisted.
After the end of the war, there was a general (and correct) sense that international cooperation had been crucial to the Allies’ victory, and that it would be necessary moving forward. World War II affected the lives of so many people, in most Western countries, that this feeling was deep and widespread. Furthermore, the ideas of the “populist right,” which in some ways resembled the now-discredited views of the Axis powers, were not very appealing.
And then the Cold War came, giving these basic cooperative instincts a second lease on life. The Soviet Union and China seemed like dangerous nations with malevolent intentions, and their rise strengthened the cooperative tendencies of the West all the more. In the mid-1970s, “America First” would have seemed like a crazy strategy, and the U.K. was joining what is now called the European Union rather than leaving it. Meanwhile, utterly demonizing one’s domestic political opponents was considered bad form; the real villains were abroad, and some measure of bipartisanship was needed to beat them.
In due time, however, as those who led and fought World War II died and the threat of communism faded, so has the notion of an external enemy. There is no external “ism” — such as communism or fascism — against which liberalism can so readily be defined. China remains a geopolitical issue, but is not seen as a direct threat aside from some parts of Asia and the Pacific.
In other words, it could be that the fractious and increasingly nationalistic politics of today are how things naturally are — and the anomaly is this decades-long period of cooperation and harmony.
This is not exactly reassuring. But if you look at the partisan, controversy-laden, personality-intense, and often stupid American politics of much of the 19th century, it seems plausible. Without the presence of strong external enemies, cooperation breaks down.
There is another explanation for the rise in anti-liberal sentiment: immigration. Through a series of historical accidents, it was kept off the table as a major issue for many decades. The U.S. had choked off immigration in 1920, and at first the liberalization of the 1960s did not have much of a visible impact on the American population. In those early decades after the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, many poor nations were so poor and unfree that it wasn’t easy to leave them.
As for Europe, in-migration was too small to make much of a political impact. For a while in the 1960s and 1970s, the bigger story was emigration, due to high taxes, from countries such as the U.K. and Sweden. The presence of the Iron Curtain also blocked some of the routes and sources that enable some migration to Western Europe today.
In a democratic society where there simply isn’t much immigration, it is much harder for nationalists and populists to use it as an issue. But today much of the West has seen high immigration for 20 years or more, giving nationalist and populist forces a major talking point. Even if most of the population is broadly pro-immigration, perhaps a core of 15 to 20 percent will not be. With that base, a movement of counterreaction can have real political impact.
The implication of all this? It’s as clear as it is depressing: Nationalism and populism aren’t going away anytime soon.
122 Comments on "When and Why the World Went Wrong"
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 6:30 am
McCain didn’t want Trump at funeral service
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/08/26/john-mccain-trump-funeral-plans-sot-vpx.cnn
Cloggie on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 6:39 am
“Juanp
Stop spreading that Putin propaganda..”
We have a new neocon moderator here.
Not that he is going to moderate much…
Cloggie on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 6:41 am
“McCain didn’t want Trump at funeral service”
For good reason:
https://youtu.be/Weea3dQoqKk
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 6:57 am
73% of Americans make less than $50K per year
70% of Americans have less than $1000 in savings
Nearly 20% of Americans have negative net worth
Davy on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 7:20 am
“McCain was a war hero..And in this country that means something”
A post WWII war hero label may apply to the individual who showed courage, bravery, and self-sacrifice. The wars fought were for the most part illegitimate and a legacy of the cold war and its immediate USSR demise aftermath. I don’t know enough about McCain and his time to draw conclusions on him as an individual. I don’t care and don’t want to know because what I know about him now is horrible. The guy was responsible in his latter life for pushing an agenda that could have ended the world. In this respect he needs to be relegated to the category of better off gone from a civilizational point of view. One less neocon “deep” deep stater to satisfy MIC and push a failed Americana policy of hegemony. Hegemony must end if we are as a global world going to find some direction forward before the bottom falls out of our infrastructure of survival by issues of overshoot and bad behavior.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 7:31 am
Can’t Mossad the Assad
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 7:55 am
The Man Accused of Killing Mollie Tibbetts Lived on Land Owned by GOP Fundraiser
http://time.com/5378118/mollie-tibbetts-suspecet-gop-fundraiser-land/?utm_source=reddit.com
Womp womp
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 7:58 am
Former CIA Director Brennan: Republican spines left with John McCain
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/403582-former-cia-director-brennan-republican-spines-left-with-john-mccain
Cloggie on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 8:08 am
“Can’t Mossad the Assad”
Indeed, Assad is a harder nut to crack than JFK.
Davy on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 8:12 am
“Former CIA Director Brennan”
a swamp creature from the lowest depths that bottom feeds on the all forms of corruption. This individual and his co-conspirators have run a soft coup that has trashed our constitution. This guy belongs in a supermax prison in solitary along with hillary.
Cloggie on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 8:23 am
“73% of Americans make less than $50K per year
70% of Americans have less than $1000 in savings
Nearly 20% of Americans have negative net worth”
Indeed, the US is oligarch territory, average Americans are worse of than most average Europeans. Look to median wealth (scroll down) for “Joe Sixpack” impressions:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_per_adult
In thousand $
Switz 229
Austr 295
Norway 130
Italy 125
Japan 134
France 120
US 56
Greece 55
Quit an eyeopener. Still beating Greece, chapeau!
Yet the new Americans are still much better off than their ethno palls in Africa or Mexico.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 8:37 am
Davy a soft coup? You are going full blown infowars now..Another low IQ conservative who can’t be reasoned with..
Davy is what happens when you only read fringe lunatic sites like zerohedge..
Just another low brow anti intellectual
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 8:39 am
Clogg
Europe is going to collapse before the US does..They are the worlds second largest oil importer and their largest natural gas producer the Netherlands only has around 20 percent of their reserves left..
Tick tock..
Cloggie on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 8:41 am
London beginning to look like post-Apartheid South-Africa with worried whitey barricading himself:
https://www.infowars.com/lawless-london-worried-residents-building-barricades-around-their-homes/
I’m sure Bill Maher has a joke at hand just to give DerHundIstLos a good laugh.
Yuck.
And Bloomberg keeps pretending not to have a clue why libtardism is losing support.
Cloggie on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 8:48 am
“Europe is going to collapse before the US does..“
You wish.
It is 1939 again but with roles reversed.
In 1939 the US and USSR did everything they could to set up UK, France and Germany up for war… so they could colonize the joint.
Now the EU, Russia and China merely need to wait until the ticking time bomb US is going off, so they can intervene and take the joint over.
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2018/06/11/cw2-brewing/
CIA chief calls for anti-Trump coup!!!
https://www.infowars.com/breaking-treason-master-john-brennan-unveils-coup-plans-against-trump-on-bill-maher/
Eurasia must come to the aid of whitey!!!
Hands off whitey, or else!!!
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 8:52 am
Clogg
Infowars? You are a low IQ moron
Alex Jones warns of pig/gorilla/human hybrids who can talk
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/07/06/alex-jones-warns-piggorillahuman-hybrids-who-can-talk/217158
Infowars host: Hurricane threatening Hawaii has been split in two by energy beam shot from Antarctica, possibly by John Kerry
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/08/24/infowars-host-hurricane-threatening-hawaii-has-been-split-two-energy-beam-shot-antarctica-possibly/221094
Alex Jones guest: Children have been kidnapped and sent to a slave colony on Mars
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/06/29/alex-jones-guest-children-have-been-kidnapped-and-sent-slave-colony-mars/217109
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 8:54 am
CLogg
Ask a real historian about your WW2 theories..I challenge you to prove it..Ask an independent expert..Stop hiding behind your blog that you censor any comments..And its a shitty looking blog at that..I understand though conservatives have low IQ’s and are not artistic.
The truth fears no questions..
Cloggie on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 8:56 am
Globalist media just invented a new word:
National-Populism
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/wirtschaft-in-deutschland-und-der-welt-stell-dir-vor-alles-wird-gut-a-1224946.html
You can’t make this stuff up.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 8:59 am
Clogg
The reason liberalism is losing support is the OECD and global economy are in a depression and headed for collapse soon..Didn’t you read the German Army (Leaked) peak oil study from 2010? Maybe if you would open your eyes and learn, you would know where we are going..
Historical OECD studies show that only an increase in prosperity can lead to open and tolerant societies..And set backs in economic growth can lead to a rise in nationalism and extremism..
http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/Peak%20Oil_Study%20EN.pdf
History repeats just like during the great depression..That is why people like you are so angry and full of hate..And educated people like me who have strong careers and social lives are not..
Cloggie on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 9:07 am
“Ask a real historian about your WW2 theories”
For a self-styled “mastermind” you are astonishing light on abilities to defend the lies of the empire. Why don’t YOU seek help from some liteweight leftist “historian” and get my arguments defeated.
You won’t.
Face it, Marxist jerk, I rule supreme here with my views, which nobody dares to challenge. In a couple of years everybody will have “my” views.
https://www.amazon.com/Roosevelts-Krieg-Amerikanische-Politik-Strategie/dp/3776620587/ref=sr_1_8
Roosevelts War.
That’s what it was.
But now the roles are reversed… because of the 2000 regime change in Moscow. Russia is now pro-European and there are an increasing number of European-Americans who opine that white lives matter.
ZOG is toast.
Cloggie on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 9:10 am
“Infowars? You are a low IQ moron”
Do you deny that Brennan calls for the overthrow of Trump?
Who is the low IQ moron here.
Now get your CW2 started, this is an order.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 9:18 am
Clog
I just challenged you to ask a real historian..And you pussed out..Cause you know you will be laughed at..And I watched that bill maher episode i posted a link to it that night..And he didn’t call for a coup..Do you honestly think if that was the case he would do it on HBO? You believe the most far fetched shit.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 9:19 am
In stressful times, intellectual capacity declines severely, and modern education does not encourage critical thinking in a society saturated by propaganda of all kinds: moreover, people need to believe that someone supposedly powerful is looking out for their interests. Such people have existed historically, but very rarely. To face the reality of being on your own at the bottom, in a declining, system is too cruel for many, too bleak. It’s going to be funny watching both silly political parties try to placate their constituencies as limits to growth reveals their true impotence…
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 9:20 am
Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death..
-Adolf Hitler
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 9:25 am
George Soros warns the European Union is on the brink of collapse — and Trump is partly to blame
http://www.businessinsider.com/george-soros-president-trump-eu-collapse-2018-5
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 9:26 am
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists..
Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 9:28 am
Not only do conservatives have low IQ’s they also are big on fear and are easily scared..
Conservatives Big on Fear, Brain Study Finds
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-beast/201104/conservatives-big-fear-brain-study-finds
It is a narrow mind that cannot look at a subject from various
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 9:32 am
“None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.”
~ Goethe
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 9:39 am
You need to understand the mentality of the US low Iq conservatives.. Fighting wars to a US southerner is a religion all of it’s own. They deeply treasure all the mementos and memories of war. They endlessly bask in the lore and history of past wars and pine for new wars so that new glory and memories will be generated. They re-enact over and over again the bloody butchery of battles from the 1860s where over 700,000 soldiers died- largely from the diabolical effects of new artillery products. Like a religion, actually.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 9:42 am
As The Wealthy Flock To The Major Cities On Both Coasts, Poverty And Suicide Soar In Rural Areas
America’s wealthy households are increasingly moving to coastal cities on both sides of the country, but those with more modest incomes are either relocating to or being pushed into the nation’s Rust Belt, according to a new study.
According to estimates by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, nearly a quarter of children growing up in rural America were poor in 2016, compared to slightly more than 20 percent in urban areas.Perhaps not surprisingly, the report found the highest concentrations of child poverty, overall, in the Mississippi Delta, Appalachia and on Native American reservations.
The suicide rate in rural America is 45% greater than in large urban areas, according to a study released last fall by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A more recent CDC report said Montana’s suicide rate leads the nation, coming in at nearly twice the national average. A third long-touted CDC study, currently under review, listed farming in the occupational group, along with fishing and forestry, with the highest rate of suicide deaths.
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/as-the-wealthy-flock-to-the-major-cities-on-both-coasts-poverty-and-suicide-soar-in-rural-areas
Die you White devils and church going fucks! HAHA your states are collapsing because the capitalist have off shored all of your factories..
LMFAO
Cloggie on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 10:02 am
Die you White devils
And this kiken liar dares to claim he is white and of Scottish descent.
This is why Europeans put these types on the train to the East, because they wreck your society from within and the worst has yet to come for America.
You have the spine to do what is required, European America, to defend your children?
Or do you prefer to experience the horrors of Bolshevism in what was once your own country?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6p1zxKnDeM
Cloggie on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 10:38 am
Look how millimind is spamming this board. He must be a very lonely guy, there in moms basement with nothing but debt. Nobody loves him. Girls don’t love guys with debt, without a home and who still lives with mom.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 10:53 am
Cloggie
I am not the one who is pissed off about everything and full of hate..My life has been great so far..And I live with my girlfriend.
Nationalism is for basement dwellers..You even admitted you don’t have a girlfriend..And the alt right movement is also the angry incel movement..Just look at how many girls where in Virginia at your march..Zero..Nuff said..
Cloggie on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 10:57 am
“You even admitted you don’t have a girlfriend”
When did I admit that? Quote please.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 11:03 am
Clogg
You woulnd’t be a nazi if you had love in your life..People are products of their environments..you obviously never went to college.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 11:04 am
Clogg
Only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural..
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 11:17 am
McCain requested Obama, George W. Bush deliver eulogies at funeral
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mccain-requested-obama-george-w-bush-deliver-eulogies-at-funeral/ar-BBMrd4p?ocid=ob-tw-enus-677
Cloggie on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 12:05 pm
May calls for Brexit no-deal summit:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6099383/Theresa-calls-Brexit-crisis-summit-prepare-no-deal.html
EU threatens to throw UK out of Galileo program, UK in retaliation wants to develop a GPS of its own:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6098855/May-orders-space-race-EU.html
Former Belgian MP predicts that UK could fall apart as a consequence of a no-deal Brexit (that is becoming more likely with every passing day)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6099381/No-deal-Brexit-lead-break-UK-fresh-calls-Scottish-independence.html
Get used to it: Britain is to become 51st US state.
Breakup of the West is next, continental Europe will turn to Eurasia, New Silk Road, Asian Development Bank.
Potential Cold War between Eurasia and Anglosphere.
JuanP on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 1:38 pm
Mm “McCain was a war hero”
You are entitled to your opinion.
JuanP on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 1:59 pm
“Death as a good career move”
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201808261067485380-mccain-carrer-death/
The war criminal is in the eyes of some a “war hero”. I couldn’t make this shit up.
duh on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 3:46 pm
Damn you fags are gay
makati1 on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 6:15 pm
s I said: McCain is and was a traitor plain and simple. I remember those Vietnam/Nixon days. Do you?
I’m glad he is dead. I hope it was a painful death. He deserved it.
Cloggie on Mon, 27th Aug 2018 12:43 am
East-Germany is different.
Yesterday in Chemnitz (formerly known as Karl-Marx-Stadt, but not anymore.lol) a group of colored invaders harassed a few German women. German males from Russia came to their aid, got stabbed and two of them died. What followed was a mini-pogrom against colored invaders in the entire city, carried out by ca. 1000 angry locals:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/rechte-in-chemnitz-oberbuergermeisterin-entsetzt-polizei-offenbar-ueberfordert-a-1225042.html
Ze pictures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX6g1oVPzXY
The resistance in East-Germany and the AfD is the strongest. East-Germany is now part of Germany and has a major influence on national politics. It is only a matter of time before Germany follows the example of Italy and Austria, like in the twenties of the previous century.
And if some Anglos might get the idea of starting their jet engines again for a new Eurasian bombing campaign, it should be remembered that the Anglos are now isolated and among themselves. France, Russia and China would ally with Germany, not Washington-London.
Cloggie on Mon, 27th Aug 2018 12:54 am
Two years ago, the current foreign minister Heiko Maas was chased out of a East-German town, for his immigration policies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ_Ehn6f-8M
This same Heiko Maas is now forced to distance himself from the US and calls for more European independence from the US:
https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence-policy/news/germanys-maas-unveils-vision-for-post-atlantic-europe/
I dislike this socialist punk, but here he has a point (not with his anti-Russian/Chinese stance).
MASTERMIND on Mon, 27th Aug 2018 12:58 am
Clogg
Do you ever shut up about immigrants and race? WTF? You have some sort of obsessive disorder. I mean you are talking about a country that nobody gives a shit about on this board because everyone is American, except for you..
MASTERMIND on Mon, 27th Aug 2018 1:00 am
Clogg
Try to go one day without talking about immigrants and I will give you a lollipop!
LOL
Sissyfuss on Mon, 27th Aug 2018 9:39 am
” There is another reason for the rise in anti-liberalism sentiment, immigration.”
Which is a symptom of overshoot and LTG. Politics is not a system that is designed to cope with resource depletion or climate disruption. But for now it is all we have until a replacements is found that deals with the realities of our epoch. Anarchy and Fascism are two of the leading candidates
Cloggie on Tue, 28th Aug 2018 1:14 am
Macron says that a united EU-front against Britain is more important than avoiding a hard-Brexit:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/brexit-frankreich-bereitet-sich-auf-britischen-eu-austritt-ohne-abkommen-vor-a-1225248.html
A no deal Brexit is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
This, plus Macron’s demand for a European army, including Russia, implies the breakup of the West as we knew it.
A merger with Russia, resulting in a new political unity/alliance of 640 million 90+% white folks, would dwarf the United States and would act like a magnet for desperate European-Americans seeing their country go through the third world drain.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/8163347/Putin-Russia-will-join-the-euro-one-day.html
“Putin: Russia will join the euro one day”
One day the euro will be used in Missouri.
That will be the day that European-Americans will no longer call themselves Americans, like the Serbs no longer call themselves Yugoslavs, but Europeans.
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/amerikaner/
Davy on Tue, 28th Aug 2018 4:27 am
“This, plus Macron’s demand for a European army, including Russia, implies the breakup of the West as we knew it.”
Neder, do you have a reference where Macron included Russia? No because that is your delusional fantasy of a PBM dreaming this shit up. The more you are here the more I see you losing your sanity.
“Vladimir Putin said it is “quite possible” that Russia will one day join the eurozone and create a currency that would eclipse the US dollar as the global reserve standard.”
Ah, nederliar, I think Putin is refereeing to a new pan Eurasian currency or global currency and that may or may not be a Euro. It might be the ruble when Euroland breaks up and the US leaves it to dwell with Russia and its unstable self. It is unlikely the Euro peoples will ever have a pan Euro Empire. In a few decades you will be mostly colored anyway looking to Mecca.
One day the euro will be used in Missouri.
I could give a shit what currency I use. I hope it is more barter and localized someday. If I could have a simple life without modern threats I would take it in a heartbeat. If we could somehow decline to a smaller world I would take it.
“That will be the day that European-Americans will no longer call themselves Americans, like the Serbs no longer call themselves Yugoslavs, but Europeans.”
Dream on Nazi racist with your mein kampf WordPress.
Cloggie on Tue, 28th Aug 2018 4:45 am
“Neder, do you have a reference where Macron included Russia? No because that is your delusional fantasy of a PBM dreaming this shit up”
I gave it to you, you fool, but you were too busy with your pathetic attempts to play the fake Iranian to take notice:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-6102115/amp/EUs-security-no-longer-depend-US-Macron.html
“I want us to launch an exhaustive review of our security with all Europe’s partners, which includes Russia,” he added.
Got it, amerikaantje?
You are out, mega-out.