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« on: December 28, 2015, 07:37:43 PM » |
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« edited: December 28, 2015, 07:41:59 PM by Thinking Crumpets Crumpet »
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Suppose the world leaders in 2020 include the following (I don't know enough about all of these country's politics to know if this specific list is possible, but just for clarity's sake):
USA: Marco Rubio (Republican) United Kingdom: David Cameron (Conservative) Canada: Peter MacKay (Conservative) Australia: Malcolm Turnbull (Liberal) Mexico: Margarita Zavala (PAN) France: Nicolas Sarkozy (Republican) Austria: Reinhold Mitterlehner (ÖVP) Spain: Mariano Rajoy (PP) Germany: Angela Merkel (CDU/CSU) Norway: Ema Solberg (Conservative) Italy: Silvio Berlusconi (Forza Italia) Portugal: Pedro Passos (PSD) Sweden: Anna Kinberg Batra (Moderate) Poland: Beata Szydło (Law and Justice) Netherlands: Mark Rutte (VVD) India: Narendra Modi (BJP) South Africa: Helen Zille (Democratic Alliance) New Zealand: John Key (National Party) Hungary: Viktor Orban (Fidesz) Brazil: Aecio Neves (PSDB)
And, well... you get the idea. Furthermore, let's suppose that all of these parties have a strong enough standing in government to get solid legislation though (i.e. they're not part of any grand coalition, or only control one part of government). What might world policy look like? What would happen to the EU? Would trade become increasingly liberalized even as governments became more nationalistic? How would issues like gay marriage and prostitution be treated? How would the East-West dynamic change, as well as the global north-global south dynamic?
I ask, because so many of us watch elections in other countries, and generally root (logically) for the party that best fits our beliefs, presumably hoping that all countries might elect governments that subscribe to some supra-national ideal. But would that really happen even if we took that scenario to the extreme?
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