The core of the issue for me is contained in many of the ideas of David Harvey. The shift from Keynesian welfare state capitalism which was democratic, inclusive, and required nation-building for its success was replaced by a new form neo-liberalism (Harvey elsewhere calls it flexible accumulation) which consolidates the relevant decision-making bodies of existing states into international venue such as the WTO and the World Economic Forum while breaking down the nation building structures that once brought people together as a nation such as free universal public education, universal health care, union rights, and regulatory protections. Such things fostered an expanded concept of citizenship and a flexible sense of rights as part of a national community.
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