∞∞∞ wrote:I think that slowly, people are begin to reject the nationalistic wave that hit Europe in the last few years. First the Netherlands, then France, now this. The German elections later this year will be an interesting case study as well.
We've also seen a huge wave of nationalism here, but we'll see if it continues in 2018. Millennials and Centennials grew up in a connected world and a global (and sharing) economy, so nationalism is fairly foreign to the largest potential voting block in future elections.
And let's be honest, Brexit, May, and Trump may have sold people with rhetoric, but they're both doing terrible jobs selling people (especially younger people) on the benefits of nationalism over globalism.
And let's also be honest, nationalism didn't just pop up as something to do for fun. It came into vogue because the status quo politicians who came before them had tried selling them just rhetoric, and they too did a terrible job of selling people on the benefits of globalism over nationalism. Those issues (income inequality, difficulty transitioning between jobs in the job market, difficulty moving up in the socio-economic ladder, increasing costs of the nation state and how to fund it, and then the European-specific issue of rampant immigration with significant assimilation impediments) haven't gone away and aren't going away. There are real problems in the world and championing one political viewpoint over another doesn't really get to the core of how to solve those issues. I don't think the answers are particularly obvious either.
