Comments by "TeeKay" (@teekay_1) on "The European Union: Will It Adapt or Die? || Peter Zeihan" video.

@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 Despite what the press says about Hungary, it's a quite open society, and Budapest is about as modern a city as you'll find anywhere.
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@ursodermatt8809 The difference is the dollar is a reserve currency which allows the U.S. to print money.
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@barbaral.5980 Sounds like Poland was just giving Germany what they were advocating for everyone else.
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There is unrest because the EU is trying to destroy Dutch agriculture (the most productive in the world) and build a megacity on that land that really serves no purpose except to dance to the dictates of the WEF. Complete madness.
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@crawkn " it was implemented as a solution to free market excesses" There were regulations long before the free market. They were implemented as a way of favoring one sector over another, regardless of the economic system.
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@ursodermatt8809 Thank you for completely misunderstanding my post. I'll endeavor to make things simpler. Here's my 2nd attempt: *The US is not as subject to the budget and monetary pressures as the EU because the value of raw materials, oil, goods and services in the west (and beyond) are priced in dollars*. However, as the debt in the US grows, there will be increased pressure in the third world and some 2nd world countries to abandon the dollar in favor of another currency, particularly as the United States uses the banking system against countries it disagrees with.
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@jeanlamb5026 Have you ever been to Hungary? It's the polar opposite of what NPR is telling you. Crazy liberals hate Orban because he's said no to mass immigration from the middle east. He's said no to trans-nuttiness, and he supports families with a mom and dad. And yes, they have freedom of speech and press. Apparently those are all unforgivable sins to the crazy liberals.
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@crawkn That's a long way aroundto say "Hmm, never thought about it that way, you're right"
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@crawkn The effect is the same. Tax policy, regulatory fiats, and executive power all work together to favor certain sectors over others. In "communist" China, the government is very open about favoring certain sectors. Especially the ruling class. But China is much closer to Fascism than Communism, but similarly Fascism is based on favoring sectors run by the ruling class. In Soviet Russia, the government was quite open about favoring certain sectors, primarily the ruling class. In republics like the US, the government is often open (i.e. tax policy favoring homeowners) or hidden (i.e. members of congress can use insider information to get rich) about favoring certain sectors, especially the ruling class. It has nothing to do with the economic system. It's inherent in giving too much power to the state.
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@crawkn The fix is to remove power from the national government in favor of local government. National government should be responsible for standardization, national defense, and ensuring limits on government are adhered to. Let local government make the important decisions, because the thing about local governments is the town mayor has to look you in the eye every day, and also, local government don't have an army to keep their political opponents in line.
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EU has fallen under the spell of irrational climate alarm-ism. And the EU is proving they're using it to control people in where they can travel, what they can buy, where they can live, the kind of heating systems they're allowed to have, the kind of cars they can drive (none), and are under increasingly high taxation on daily goods and food to "alleviate climate change". Effectively they're being set up to go back to the days of serfdom in the middle ages. We seem to have a bit of a backbone to push back, although a lot of us in the U.S. don't know what a woman is, so a lot of guys won't be able to have children when they pick the wrong one.
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