Author Topic: Are nation-states necessary anymore?  (Read 765 times)

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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: Are nation-states necessary anymore?
« on: May 28, 2018, 03:44:54 pm »
After years of increases, the number of states with democracies and rule of law is declining. This trend may be temporary, level off or reverse. The bottom line is the number of people living in states where they have control over their government is falling. I see that as the greatest "darkness".

You can't expect these things to follow a strictly straight line.  It's far better than the cold war and than most of history.

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Our politicians are merely a reflection of society and you cannot separate the two. If elected politicians act destructively that is because voters reward those that do. Unless you have a solution for mass brainwashing then no technical change is going to fix this issue.

I don't know what the answer is but this contentious period is an anomaly and is transitional, even if we are headed to civil war.