Is this the end of the United States?
You say that like the current USA is efficient.
It's a matter of where the interest and energy goes. Tiny arrogant nations spend energy quarreling. No point in that.
Sand.
The UN still has countries in them, with their respective govts. The main change was the free flow of Europeans through Europe and I support that. I support that on a global scale but it does not mean it needs a central government to keep better control.
It is for each individual to become more responsible, not to acquire bigger govts.
Bigger govt is a big risk that always attract criminals into them so they can rob "legally", establishing a corporate sector, take over the market and control people. This is what we are seeing today.
Politicians are elected by a majority, from there on they make decisions by themselves. This leaves a big margin for others to take decisions for you.
This democracy is limited to not a 51%+(or just the biggest percentage) but worse! To the fact that politicians once elected can stretch their policies.
AspiInLV
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bear in mind the the current POTUS has Larry Summers as an advisor. The same person who advised the former President of Russia Boris N Yeltsin, under which crony capitalism occured. The Current situation is hardly Free Enterprise capitalism, I preferr to call it Wild West capitalism. The best businessmen are the biggest Gangsters,they are the sort of scum who would sell their daughters to pedophiles, and call it free enterprise, if the police were to stop the transaction they would call socialism, or government interference. You would feel like a winner if you could get the President to abolish pesky regulations that interfere with making a profit, and give away Trillion $ Bailouts. This disaster is a reminder that if someone is offering you billions of dollars in campaign contributions to do something, the requested action is illegal, immoral or possibly both. Beware of voting for the candidate with the most financing, Google all candidates for higher office.
I blame Ayn Rand for destroying America. Her idiocies have created a sense of moral absolutism with a decisive segment of the ruling class that precludes any pragmatic practices in compensating for distortions in the system as it exists now. The system has suffered from distortions like a human body that has lung disease, this affects the other organs. In this case, the system is sick but cures are not allowed because Ayn Rand's influence says that administering cure is morally evil. So it doesn't happen and the patient dies. It makes one wonder about this foreigner...