What This Election Is Really About

Leaving jokes aside for the moment, I wanted to draw your attention to the most important sentence in Trump’s foreign policy speech:

The nation-state remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony.

With all of the Lyin’ Teds, Little Marcos, Berniebros, small hands, rallies, and drama, it’s easy to lose sight of what this election is really about. Namely, the central question of our times: do we try to cling to the nation-state model or do we accept that it’s dead and move on to the next state form. Should we try to gain advantage by getting to the next stage before everybody else? Or by lingering in the previous stage until there’s no more juice to suck out of it?

Nation-state or fluid state?

This is the real question here, and the answer is very hard to find.

The pig corpses and the women cards are all a diversion, a way of drawing the attention of the easily distracted majority that falls asleep when anybody mentions words like “state form” and “nation-state.”

One thought on “What This Election Is Really About

  1. “We will no longer surrender this country or its people to the false song of globalism,”

    Another quote from the speech. Nationalism vs. Globalism seems to be set for a big philosophical argument if Trump wins the nomination.

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