I think this skips all the important steps and as a result fails to imagine this liberal world correctly, focusing on a lot of irrelevant minutiae, instead of the fundamentals.
Firstly, if we had sufficient people to attend conferences that actually support liberal values in numbers that can make any difference, then Trump, MAGA, climate change, socialism, etc, would not be the only options in mainstream political discourse. I think most people today calling themselves "liberal" actually mean "democrats."
A proper definition of liberal requires at least a basic grasp of political theory.
Liberal = support for individual rights and rights-protecting government in politics, which means capitalism in economics.
In practice this means, no departments of education, healthcare, immigration, no regulations in the private sector at all. No climate change wealth redistribution, no solar panels, or windmill nonsense, etc.
The government is not involved in our lives; it merely exists to protect rights. This means the courts, the police, and the armed forces. Nothing else.
Is that what the author of this article, or anyone here for that matter, really supports?
Such an order, which i support, starts with the UN. The security council must of course cease to exist and some more democratic formation put in place to manage the democratic principles out lined in the UN charter
I have written theee articles about “Post American Europe" that can be interest to you:
In the first article, I examine the historical roots of the European Union (EU): Europe was an ecology of competing, often warring jurisdictions that, after the Second World War, were integrated into the American Pax Democratica. Our generational challenge is to maintain the greatest American legacy: the EU.
In the second article, the complex governance of the EU is characterised as a nomocracy, a harmonising and consociational confederacy which is less efficient but more robust than the other large international actors. Minimalistic institutional reform is proposed to strengthen European democracies in the age of populism.
The final instalment proposes policies to address technological dependency and the foreign policy stance of the post-American Europe: technological sovereignty, competition reform, and a renewed liberal order in Europe's near abroad:
But there's a reason he was elected last year despite all the warnings from his first term and even the appalling January 6th.
Yes the Dems blew it and remain so for now.
But democracy will recover, eventually learn from Biden / Obama and now Trump.
A long check list of how not to.
Historically it's arrived in a blink, radically successful in doing so, is nothing less than the 3rd revolution since the last ice age.
But yes it doesn't run itself.
And as we see lately it’d prone to identity abuse from the racist Left and the Populist Right.
But where there's an effective full franchise then sense should hopefully prevail in the end.
Meanwhile thank heavens globally for the warts and all USA! That Britain prevailed in N America.
On the other side this benighted Russia keeps digging its demise, if at a fearful price in a war the mindless West should never have let happen.
Iran's cooked and today’s demographically failing China is lost in an Old World nationalist haze which will not end well because as democracies know well they’re simply driving the wrong model.
I agree now, although prior to Donald Trump arriving on the scene, I was all for American hegemony, especially when contrasted with the weakness shown by the EU and America's NATO allies (like Canada, where I am based). Not anymore. The first step is for the rest of NATO to make good on their promise to beef up defense, since they cannot stand up to Trump while being dependent on US protection. Then, a new alliance including all full democracies needs to be created to replace the United States as the principle guardian of the Free World. The EU, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia etc. together are more then rich and capable enough to do it. All they need is the will and the organization.
I think this skips all the important steps and as a result fails to imagine this liberal world correctly, focusing on a lot of irrelevant minutiae, instead of the fundamentals.
Firstly, if we had sufficient people to attend conferences that actually support liberal values in numbers that can make any difference, then Trump, MAGA, climate change, socialism, etc, would not be the only options in mainstream political discourse. I think most people today calling themselves "liberal" actually mean "democrats."
A proper definition of liberal requires at least a basic grasp of political theory.
Liberal = support for individual rights and rights-protecting government in politics, which means capitalism in economics.
In practice this means, no departments of education, healthcare, immigration, no regulations in the private sector at all. No climate change wealth redistribution, no solar panels, or windmill nonsense, etc.
The government is not involved in our lives; it merely exists to protect rights. This means the courts, the police, and the armed forces. Nothing else.
Is that what the author of this article, or anyone here for that matter, really supports?
Such an order, which i support, starts with the UN. The security council must of course cease to exist and some more democratic formation put in place to manage the democratic principles out lined in the UN charter
I have written theee articles about “Post American Europe" that can be interest to you:
In the first article, I examine the historical roots of the European Union (EU): Europe was an ecology of competing, often warring jurisdictions that, after the Second World War, were integrated into the American Pax Democratica. Our generational challenge is to maintain the greatest American legacy: the EU.
https://www.frenchdispatch.eu/p/post-american-europe-historical-roots-eu-integration?r=biy76&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
In the second article, the complex governance of the EU is characterised as a nomocracy, a harmonising and consociational confederacy which is less efficient but more robust than the other large international actors. Minimalistic institutional reform is proposed to strengthen European democracies in the age of populism.
https://www.frenchdispatch.eu/p/post-american-europe-eu-rule-based-democracy-authoritarianism?r=biy76&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
The final instalment proposes policies to address technological dependency and the foreign policy stance of the post-American Europe: technological sovereignty, competition reform, and a renewed liberal order in Europe's near abroad:
https://www.frenchdispatch.eu/p/post-american-europe-eu-technological-sovereignty-liberal-order?r=biy76&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Trump's a moron, if not a complete idiot.
But there's a reason he was elected last year despite all the warnings from his first term and even the appalling January 6th.
Yes the Dems blew it and remain so for now.
But democracy will recover, eventually learn from Biden / Obama and now Trump.
A long check list of how not to.
Historically it's arrived in a blink, radically successful in doing so, is nothing less than the 3rd revolution since the last ice age.
But yes it doesn't run itself.
And as we see lately it’d prone to identity abuse from the racist Left and the Populist Right.
But where there's an effective full franchise then sense should hopefully prevail in the end.
Meanwhile thank heavens globally for the warts and all USA! That Britain prevailed in N America.
On the other side this benighted Russia keeps digging its demise, if at a fearful price in a war the mindless West should never have let happen.
Iran's cooked and today’s demographically failing China is lost in an Old World nationalist haze which will not end well because as democracies know well they’re simply driving the wrong model.
I agree now, although prior to Donald Trump arriving on the scene, I was all for American hegemony, especially when contrasted with the weakness shown by the EU and America's NATO allies (like Canada, where I am based). Not anymore. The first step is for the rest of NATO to make good on their promise to beef up defense, since they cannot stand up to Trump while being dependent on US protection. Then, a new alliance including all full democracies needs to be created to replace the United States as the principle guardian of the Free World. The EU, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia etc. together are more then rich and capable enough to do it. All they need is the will and the organization.
Would you wager its an awfully large burden anyways?