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What happens when the whole world votes? | Simon Anholt | TEDxFrankfurt

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    As many of you know, the results of
    the recent election were as follows:
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    Hillary Clinton, democratic candidate
    went allowance ??? victory
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    with 52% of the overall vote.
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    Jill Stein, the green candidate,
    came a distant second with 19%.
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    Donald J. Trump, the Republican Candidate
    was caught on the hills with 14%.
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    And the major of the vote was shared between abstainers and Gary Jonhson ???
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    the libertarian candidate.
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    (Laughter in the audience)
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    What parallel Universe do you suppose I'm leaving ?
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    Well, I don't live in a parallel Universe, I live in the world.
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    And that, is outer world verdict.
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    Let me take you back and let me explain what I wean with that.
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    In June this year, I learned something called "The Global Vote".
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    And the Global Vote, does exactly what he says on the teen ???
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    The first time in Hystory, elects anybody, anywhere in the world,
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    vote in the elections of others people's countries.
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    Why would you do that?
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    What's the point?
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    Let me show you what it looks like.
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    You go on a website, rather beautiful website, and then you select an election
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    here's the bunches ?? we've already covered,
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    We do about it one a month or there about it if you consider the ''' of the United States of America
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    Secretary General of the United Nations, The Brexit Referendum at the end of ???
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    You select the election you're interested in and you pick the candidate
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    These are the candidates for the recent elections in the tiny ??? Sautomia in Principe
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    under hundred of thousand inhabitants, off the coast of West Africa.
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    And you can look at the brief summary of each of those Candidates which I dearly hope
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    it's very neutral, very informative and very succinct.
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    And when you find the one you like, you vote.
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    These are the Candidates in the recent Islandic election. And That's the way it goes.
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    Why not would you do want to vote in another country's election?
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    The reason you wouldn't want to do it, let me reassure you is in order to interfere
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    in the democratic process of another country.
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    That's not the purpose at all.
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    Infact, you can't because usually what I do is a re??? of results after
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    the election in each individual country has already voted, so there's not way we can interfere in that process.
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    But more importantly, I'm not particularly interested in the domestic issues of the individual countries,
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    that's not what we are voting on.
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    What Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton propose to do for the American
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    is frankly non of our business.
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    That's something that only American can vote on.
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    Now, in the Global Vote you are considering only one aspect of it
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    which is: what of those leaders are going to do for the rest of us?
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    And that's very important, because we live, as lot of ????? people tell you,
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    in a globalized, hyperconnected, massively interdependent world,
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    where the politicol decisions of people of another countries can unwill have an impact on our lives
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    no matter who we are, no matter where we live.
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    like the wings of the butterfly, beating on one side of the Pacific,
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    that can apparently create an hurricane on the other side. So it is with the world we are living today.
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    And the world of politics.
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    There's no longer divided lines between domestic and international effect.
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    Any country, no matter how small, even if it's Sautoma in Principe,
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    could produce the next Nelson Mandela, or the next Stalin.
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    They coul pollute the atmosphere in the oceans which belongs to all of us.
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    Or they could be responsible and they can help all of us.
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    And yet, the system is so strange because the system hasn't caught ??? up with the globalized reality.
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    Only a small number of people are allowed to vote for those leaders, even though their impact is gigantic
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    and almost universal.
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    What number was it? A hundred and forty million of Americans voted for the next President of The United State
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    and yet, as all of us know, in a few weeks time, somebody ios going ???
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    over the nuclear launch code to Donald J. Trump.
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    Now if it isn't having a potential impact on all of us, I don't know what it is.
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    Similarly, the election for the Referendum - the Brexit Vote
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    was a small numbers of British people voted on that
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    but the outcome of the vote, which every way I wend????? would have a significant impact
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    on the lives of ten hundreds of millions people around the world.
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    and the ????? number could vote
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    What kind of democracy is that?
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    Huge decisions that affects all of us being decided by relatively very small numbers of people
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    and I don't know about you, but I don't think that sounds very democratic.
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    So I'm trying to clear it up.
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    But as I say, we don't ask about domestic questions. Infact, I only have asked two questions of all of the candidates.
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    I send the same two questions every single time. I say:
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    1. If you got elected, what are you going to do for the rest of us?
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    For the reminder of the 7 billion who live in this planet?
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    2. What is your vision for your country's future in the world?
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    What role do you see it will play?
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    Every candidate, I send the same questions and I ?????
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    don't get me wrong, I re???? if you're standing to become the next President of the United States
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    probably pretty tied ??? most of the time,
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    so I'm not get together surprised that I'm ???? but many do.
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    More every ntime. And somebody do much more than answer.
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    Some of the most, in the most enthusiastic and ???? you could imagine,
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    I just wanna say what if ????chiChimba, which was one of the candidate in the recent Zambia Presidential elections
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    His answers to those two questions were basically an 18 pages dissertation
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    on his view of Zambia potential role in the world, and in the international Community.
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    I posted on the website so anyone could read it.
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    Now sa??? onte the global vote, but he didnt't win the Zambia election
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    So I found myself wondering, what am I going to do if this extraordianry group of people,
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    I found some wonderful people here who want the global vote
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    we always ???? are getting wrong, by the way.
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    The one we elect is never the one that is elected by the domestic electorate.
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    Maybe Palin because we wento see to go for the vote for women
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    But I think it may also be a sign that the domestic electors still think very nationally
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    they're still thinking very inwardly,
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    they're still asking themselves: what's in it for me? instead what they should be asking today, which is:
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    What's in it for we?
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    But then you go , so suggestions plesa, not right now but send me an e-mail
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    if you got an idea about we can do with this amazing team of glorious losers????
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    We've gor save ???? before we should up at Thomas Tortier who was rinning
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    in the Ilandic Presidential elections, many of you may have seen her
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    in an amazing talk at TDE women just few weeks ago,
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    when she spoke for need for women to get into politics.
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    We have Maria S??? from Sautomia in Principe
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    we got Hillary Clinton, she's available
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    We got Jill Stein, and we aught also the elections of the nextg Secretary of the United Nations
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    and we called the next Prime Minister of the New Zeeland
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    a wonderful member of the team
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    I think maybe those people the ????? traveled around the world whatever there's an election
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    and remind people of the necessity in our modern age, of thinking a little bit outwards
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    and thinking of the international consequences
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    What comes next to the global vote? Obviously the Donald and Hillary show
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    is a difficult one to follow but there's anothere ???election coming up
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    Infact they seemed multuply, there's something going on, I'm sure you've noticed in the world
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    and the next role of elections were terrificly important.
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    And just a few days time we got a ???? the Australian Presidential elections
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    with the prospect of nobody offer.???
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    become finally described as fast ???since the Second Worlds War
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    Next year we got Germany, we got France, we got Presidential election in Iran,
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    and it doesn't habits
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    It doesn't get less important It gets more and more important.
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    Clearly, the global vote is not a stand alone project.
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    It's not just there on its own.
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    It has some backgrounds. It's part of the project which I've launched back in 2014
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    which I called "Good Country"
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    The idea of a good country is basically very simple.
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    It's my simple diagnosis of what it's wrong with the world, and how we can fix it.
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    What's wrong with the world I've already went into that.
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    Basically we face an increasingly growing number of challenges
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    gigantic, existencial global challenges - climate change, human rights abuses,
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    mass migration, terrorism, economic caos, weapons proliferation
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    who with these problems is ??? to praise out?
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    About the very mnature of globalized problems we know individual countries
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    as the capability of tackling on it on oits zone
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    And so very obviously, we have to cooperate and we have to collaborate
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    and as nations we're not going to solve these problems
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    It's so obvious.
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    And yet we don't-
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    We don't do nearly after enough. Most of the time, countries still persists in behaving
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    as they were worring selfish tribes.
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    Fighting against each other, not as they have that since the nation stayed invented hundred of years ago.
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    And this is got to change. This is not a change in politicol system or a change in ideology
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    this is a change in culture
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    we, all of us, have to understand, that thinking in woods is not the solution to the world's problems
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    we have to learn how to cooperate and how collaborate a great deal know??
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    and compete just a tiny bit less.
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    Otherwise things we are carrying are getting bed, and are going to get much worse
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    much sooner that we anticipate.
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    this change will only happen if we ordinary people tell our polititians of things to change
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    we have to tell them that the culture is changed.
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    We have to tell them we have a new mandate
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    The old mandate was very simple and very single.
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    If you're in a posistion of power or authority you're responsible for your own people
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    and your slice of theatry, and that's it.
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    And in order to do the best thing for your people, you screw on everybody else on the planet
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    Tha't considered to be a big Macho.
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    Today, everybody in a position of power and responsibility is in the position of a dual mandate
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    which says if youìre in a position of power and responsibility, you're responsible for youir own people
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    and for every single man, woman, child and animal on the planet.
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    You're responsible for your own slice of teatry and for every single square of ???
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    and the atmosphjere above it
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    and if you don't like that responsibility, you should not bwe in power.
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    That, for me, is the rule of the modern age
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    And that's the message thae we're going to address to our politicians
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    and show them that tha's the way things are mede these days
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    otherwise, we're all screwed.
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    I don't have a problem actually with Donald Trump ?????? of America first
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    It seems to me that this it's a pretty banale statement of what politicians have always done,
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    and probably should always do.
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    Of, course, they're elected to represent the interests of their own people
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    but what I find so boring and so old-fashioned,
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    and so unimaginative about his take on that,
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    is that America first means everyone else lose.
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    The making America grat again means making everybody else small again.
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    And it's just no true.
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    Imagine all the advisor of the last twenty years or so.
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    I've seen so many hundreds of examples of policies that harmonize
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    the international and the domestic needs.
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    And they make better policy. I'm not asking nations to be altruistic
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    or self-sacrificed. That would be ridiculous!
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    No nation would ever do that.
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    I'm asking to wake up and understand that we need a new form pof Government
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    which is possible and which harmonize those two needs
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    and it's good for our own people
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    and those good for everybody else.
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    Since the US elections and since Brexit,
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