Great news the sovereignty issue is finally sorted.

It is going to China.

'Huawei the lads'!!!!!

I think his primary goal is to get elected and the so called principles are the tactics employed to win votes, create this scenario where the country is failing and under threat and he is the super hero who will save the day. Since you're an expert I was wondering regarding making America great again, why wasn't it great before and is it great again now?

Paua oouaarancì Irà chiyeah Ishé galé ma ba oo ah

Is this a subjective or objective question?

"Tactics" he is trying to do what he has promised.
It's the people blocking him who don't have principles, just like remoaners.

Whilst I have some sympathy for the notion that globalism is a 'disaster', I am having to come to a rather awkard truth, at least from how I see matters, that it is now a fact of life. A Genie that cannot be put back in the bottle.

For me the great political/moral and any and every other conept you want to envisage, is how it is managed in terms of maintaining the notion of the nation state which does offer, badly I concede, still the best organisational structure for the individual to still have a semblance of control over their own life.

I am as guilty as most in terms of this increasingly 20th century definition of left & right, with an unholy influence of dead Germans proving seemingly more malignent by the year but we all need to face up to the reality of the world as it is, not how we would like it to be.

Throw in the increasing influence, whether we like to admit it or not, of technology over almost every aspect of our lives and what some long dead Kraut, writing in long-hand by the light of a gas lamp, may or may not have thought becomes increasingly irrelevant. The mobile phone in almost all of our pockets, and often more than one, is the most obvious example of that. That single device gives all of us the ability to communicate with the vast majority of people on this planet from not only the comfort of our own homes but, even at its most expensive, for effectively peanuts. Those alone undermine almost all previous given political definites from the 20th century. We take them for granted but they are the means by which globalisation is now part of our everyday reality. There is no good or bad about that, merely just is.

But the notion of a bloc such as the EU, which is when all said and done nothing more than a protectionist collective looking to secure industrys that are no longer economically viable along with a terrible fear of what Germany may or may not do in future becomes more and more anachronistic by the year.

We live in a new age and yet we are governed by the politics of last century. That has yet to catch up and may well be the harbringer of it all collapsing around us.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Ad hominem? Pinpoint criticism more like. If you viewed that as ad hominem then your own commentary is ad homeinem.....there is a difference between criticism and personal insult.

Hypocrisy? You ridiculed reaction to a post claiming hypocrisy and made a comment about 'superiority' with only your own opinion to back it up without actually highlighting anything from the post.

Edited by Stirlingsays (25 Apr 2019 12.52pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

On the globalisation point? Agree. It is not a choice. It is pointless attempting to resist it. Better to focus energies elsewhere, or waste life trying. It is an inevitability unless you remove technology from the equation.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

Sure, the genie can't....morally... be put back in the bottle but we can put the cork back in the bottle.

Indeed, unless that is done the very concept of the nation state as anything cohesive at all becomes meaningless.....which is what the supporters of open borders/open ended immigration want anyway.

We are already into more authoritarian times and politics and it's going to take the next generation of politicians to push that back.

I never thought that I'd see the day when the Conservative party accepted intersectional feminism for social policy. But that day happened......I'm continually embarrassed by it.

Edited by Stirlingsays (25 Apr 2019 1.06pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

In fairness that is extremely subjective. I also share that viewpoint – right now I'd rather be somewhere that stimulates and satiates my brain than going back in time to where the most exciting thing in my life would be seeing the same hedge (or insert literally anything here) every day in bland, boring and suffocating suburban hell. Staring at a white wall and waiting to die would probably be preferable.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

I disagree. Just look at the reality of the situation. Technology is the one crucial spanner in the works that trumps political will and anything else for that matter, now the wheels are fully in motion. Plus there is no significant political will to reverse it anyway. So the point still stands.

Also we've done this before, and you always use the same, limiting example. An anomaly does not prove a point. Even Japan is realising it has to open up to survive – it's slowly creeping in there. Let's say they manage to somehow hold it off for another 20 years, which in my view is near impossible, it doesn't matter. As Matov puts it, the genie is out of the bottle and there is no going back. For me, that's just an observable fact.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.