{"id":21869,"date":"2016-10-01T16:03:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T21:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21869"},"modified":"2016-10-01T16:04:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T21:04:12","slug":"why-there-is-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21869","title":{"rendered":"Why There is Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nDorothea Lange\u00a0Family of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, CA\u00a0<\/b>1938<\/center>It\u2019s over! The entire model our societies have been based on for at least as long as we ourselves have lived, is over! That\u2019s why there\u2019s Trump.There is no growth. There hasn\u2019t been any real growth for years. All there is left are empty hollow sunshiny S&P stock market numbers propped up with ultra cheap debt and buybacks, and employment figures that hide untold millions hiding from the labor force. And most of all there\u2019s debt, public as well as private, that has served to keep an illusion of growth alive and now increasingly no longer can.<\/p>\n

These false growth numbers have one purpose only: for the public to keep the incumbent powers that be in their plush seats. But\u00a0they could always ever only pull the curtain of Oz over people\u2019s eyes for so long, and it\u2019s no longer so long.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

That\u2019s what the ascent of Trump means, and Brexit, Le Pen, and all the others. It\u2019s over. What has driven us for all our lives has lost both its direction and its energy.<\/p>\n

We are smack in the middle of the most important global development in decades, in some respects arguably even in centuries, a veritable revolution, which will continue to be the most important factor to shape the world for years to come, and I don\u2019t see anybody talking about it. That has me puzzled.<\/p>\n

The development in question is the end of global economic growth, which will lead inexorably to the end of centralization (including globalization). It will also mean the end of the existence of most, and especially the most powerful, international institutions.<\/p>\n

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Why There is Trump Dorothea Lange\u00a0Family of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, CA\u00a01938It\u2019s over! The entire model our societies have been based on for at least as long as we ourselves have lived, is over! That\u2019s why there\u2019s Trump.There is no growth. There hasn\u2019t been any real growth for years. All there is left are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9033,5582,1670,7844,5376,4593,370,391,12291,14400,6649,5255,13924,1024,10522],"class_list":["post-21869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-barbarians","tag-brexit","tag-centralization","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-failure","tag-globalization","tag-growth","tag-hillary","tag-international-institutions","tag-le-pen","tag-paradigm","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-rome","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21872,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21869\/revisions\/21872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}