The Liberal Order could fall apart just like the Soviet Union.

[Mortimer]

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ssia?CMP=fb_gu

The parallels are obvious. We too have lived for 30 years under an economic system that proclaimed its own permanence. Globalisation was an unstoppable natural process; free-market economics simply the natural state of things.

But when the country that designed globalisation, imposed it and benefited from it most votes against it, you have to consider the possibility that it is going to end, and suddenly. If so, you also have to consider a possibility that – if you are a liberal, humanist democrat – may be even more shocking: that oligarchic nationalism is the default form of failing economies.

[Poise n Pen]

Corporatism is much worse than genuine tycoons because it doesn't require any competence whatsoever to gain power due to the way they are financed.

[Odin]