Uncle Donald is actually one of the positives towards unwinding a massive global imbalance, where the West has been rolled by the East by policies of left leaning Democrats.

Trump is NOT Hitler. Neither will he ever come close to Hitlers authoritarian rule.
But China is and does both.

Glass houses? Environmental destruction is a cause of the wealthy populations ignoring the obvious negatives of advancing themselves at the expense of the third world.
They are blinded by their own greed and comfortable lives.

The delusion of such a view is now exposed through a pandemic which will cause many in the West to face off with a new and uncomfortable reality.
Global trade has always resulted in a pandemic which has decimated the West, and likewise always either originated in China, or came via China.

Which one of the brightest sparks of globalism ignored this little historic fact?
Another "suck eggs" to the West. As down we ago again, compliments of the East.

Dan

diver dan,
well put !

Yup. It's globalisation. Plus uncontrolled growth and, for the West, mass immigration of unsuitable, unwanted and unneeded people.

Yards of text about how and why it happened are useless. The important thing is, what are going to do about it? The answer at the moment is NOTHING, because we are expecting the people who caused the problems to fix them.

Good essay.
These two essays from the same book support Peter's arguments.
http://www.da-peace.org/excerpt-two-is-not-peace
http://www.da-peace.org/excerpt-reality-humanity

A reasonable encapsulation of historical events and global hegemony.

A time when we had unprecedented post-war prosperity, a footwear/textile industry. We built planes during the war era and cars shortly after. Could have continued with the aero industry, but chose not to! Had a sovietized style of electricity distribution/among the cheapest in the world?

Insanely set about dismantling those things underpinning the period, like cooperative enterprise, accompanied by the wholesale privatization of state and national assets. Sent clothing and textile manufacture offshore to counter for rising electricity prices, now among the highest in the world. The final nail in the coffin was the abandonment of a heavily subsidised car industry and consequential wasted billions! Testimony of mismanagement on a biblical scale!

We cannot undo this biblical mismanagement! But could revisit those things/policies/instruments that gave us a post-war period of unpreecdented prosperty.

We need bold thinkers at the top. Not the risk avervse blame shifters there now, whose only strategy has been to pump prime to oblivian?

Things we could do if we wanted to? Roll out the Israli saliva test with a 95% accuracy rate and seconds to a test result!

That would allow the broader economy to resume, albeit held up a trifle at borders as the saliva testing ensured that the virus was managed/suppressed and repeated testing would catch those Asmptomatic that got through the net initially. Managed with offshore quarantine, until we have an effective vaccine/95% uptake!

After that we need to embrass cooperative capitalism, the world's cleanest, safest, cheapest electricity. Introduce real tax reform. And deionisation dialysis desalination, followed by VLT rapid rail and a dual-purpose dual-lane shipping canal connecting Lake Eyre to our northern oceans and their huge usable northern tides!

The rest we can leave to the tsunami of high tech migration to these shores as industrialists jostle to get on the bandwagon. After all, at this moment there's around fify trillion in surplus global capital looking for an assured safe harbour!

It really is a matter of scale! And the testicular fortitude to introduce it!
Alan B.

AlanB

You talk through your back side with this lie.

*...We cannot undo this biblical mismanagement! But could revisit those things/policies/instruments that gave us a post-war period of unpreecdented prosperty...*

Australian prosperity originates from the mantra "sell,sell,sell".
And secondly, who is an Australian and by who's standards is that definition established?

An answer to that is, a resident is one who has bought their way here, or scammed their way here. A resident that has been traded for some benefit: Uaually a benifit to the invested class of rulers under the broad umbrella of politicians, or the wealthy classes cashed up in property investment, IE domestic housing, also for sale to whomever from wherever, with a virtual string of opaque unenforceable laws, hedging in the scbam it is.

This is not prosperity AlanB. You don't get away with that one.

Not discounting out either, our once self sufficient industries sold off to the slave labourers in Asia, thus rendering our economies into one of subservience, in other words a mishmash of service industries hitch immediatly evaporates under the heat of reality, such as now upon us.

Dan