From where I am from its not a popularity contest or a pie casting one and what they are selling is the solution to issues and problems and who ever touch on the subjects that concerns the ppl the most at that time wins. They then do a half ass job and ppl elect another party as they get feed up with the results from the first. The nationalistic feelings are seen as something taboo and border to racism here by the general population. Its a little over the top I know but its true. Thats why so many get crazy when its football season, they finally get to express there nationally without someone looking on them funny.
All evidence seems to point to smaller and smaller countries not the other way around. last land I know that was stolen was Tibet by China but that was by force and Tibet diddent have any nukes to scare them off with or any strong allies holding there backs. All the collaboration between us is to safeguard from bullies that might try and take our countries from us. It is not to make super countries. Collaboration has the same kind of fear as nukes or embargo. it makes an aggressor think again about attacking a country. "Mess with me and my big bad friends will come to your house" or "Mess with me and me and my boys will never lend you playstation games, ever again" (embargo). So here we are on the same page , aggression is not an option when it comes to this kind of scope(world domination).
but also as charming a leader can be I have a really hard time to see any of the president candidates or future candidates charm China or any other nation to give up there land. Not for all the flowers and chocolate in the world. Not even on the brink of there peoples total destruction would they hand over there homeland.
Yes we have the idiocracy sneaking up on us but there is still forces among us like silent ripples on water, pushing the world to its senses. We just have to have some fate and be ready to recognize good from evil and right from wrong and then spread the positive and selfless ripples throe the ranks.
I still have fate for this world.
