Someone teach me about politics. I know absolutely nothing.

Just say what everyone else says on facebook

Conservative wave is running thru the first world countries right now. Sooo there's that.

It's not a 'conservative' thing, it's a right wing, protectionist, populist wave of voters saying 'fuck everyone else let's look out for number 1' right now, with a variety of motivations. It's a reaction to increasing globalization. There's also a lot of nationalism in there, and definitely a good dose of racism, or to be generous, an indiference to racism. Politicians around the world are trying to latch on to Trump's surprise victory by pandering to xenophobia and protectionist policies, and O'Leary want to be Canada's Trump. Harper very recently tried to do the same sort of stuff (Hijab banning, 'barbaric cultural practices' hotline, etc), and he rightfully got crucified for trying that stuff in Canada.

With the Trump's US planning to pull back from the rest of the world, both politically or economically, and focus inward, and the probable impending collapse of the EU with the U.K. gone (and soon France?), there's a major shift in the world's power balance in the works, for the first time since the end of WWII. Buckle up.

I just want to be clear here, the dismantling of the USSR was not a [major] shift in balance of power? Not an argument, but I want to understand what you're saying here. Because it's rather clever.

Love it when SP doesn't troll for a minute and puts thoughts into keystrokes.
I wasn't wrong when I said you are intelligent. Hehhehehe

Ya, the end of the Cold War was obviously massive, but from my understanding (not an expert), although tensions were high at its height, for a lot of that time the west had the upper hand anyway. Especially towards the last years when the USSR was on a serious decline.

For all of his isolationist rhetoric, Trump wants to build more nukes for some reason, and increase military spending. I don't know if anyone really knows how the next few years are going to play out, but we knew that Clinton would have continued with more of the same from the last 30 years of team America world police. Trump, meanwhile, seems totally cool with Russia invading and annexing land from its neighbors.

This post was edited by StayPositive on Jan 18 2017 08:50pm

Nationalism = good
Not accepting refugees = good
Xenophobia = good

Tons of scummy Chinese in Vancouver are giving people reasons to be xenophobic. Get this scum out of our country

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