I Think There Is A Deep Underlying Reason Why Opt-Out Might Find Itself Struggling.

I don ’t often bring Paul Kelly – Editor-at-Large of The Australian – onto these pages but his effort on Saturday last week struck a chord with me.Trump and Brexit: Existential crisis torments great democraciesThe Australian12:00AM July 21, 2018Paul KellyThe West lives through an era where democracy is under serious threat from within given the two great democracies — Britain and the US — are sunk in existential trauma over separation from Europe and the Trump phenomenon respectively.It is folly to think Australia is immune from the democratic malaise. Our problems and our symptoms are dif ferent, yet serious. But our mood of dispirited indifference is far distant from the existential crisis that torments the two nations Australia used as models when writing its constitution in the 1890s.The two specific triggers for the British and US traumas are mismanagement of globalisation and im migration, areas where Australia has largely avoided the same mistakes. From the 1980s onwards... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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