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I have been reading a lot of economic histories in recent years. I believe that the west was going through a profound and accelerating change that began slowly with the Reformation and started to accelerate in the late 18th century with as the Enlightenment took hold. Nothing groundbreaking there, BUT a strictly hierarchical Feudal culture existed throughout Europe that was repulsed and terrified by the freedom of what would become Liberalism. I believe that almost every major conflict in the industrialized world over the last 250 years has been the result of the reaction of Feudal culture to a rapidly advancing technological society that was enabling increasing freedom and prosperity for the masses.

We are experiencing this in the U.S. now with Trump.