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    4 months ago

    Let’s hope so, but even if the PTB/PVDA won the election with 51% and didn’t sell out or compromise. The EU would start threatening them. It would be very hard to stop the neoliberal policies, without major economic backlash from the EU. The same thing is true for most EU countries, since our economies are nowhere near self sustaining. I don’t see a way out of this neoliberal prison without a major loss in quality of life due to potential sanctions and economic isolation.

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            They would be punished much harsher than the UK was. Belgium’s economy is smaller and they’re in the Eurozone. We’d need a small group of 5 or 6 countries to exit all at once. If that happened, the whole EU would probably fall apart a few years later.

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              We’d need a small group of 5 or 6 countries to exit all at once.

              Daunting. With quickly changing political landscapes, do you think it resides in the reason if impossible, within the next decade?

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                  We can’t always measure cost in monetary values, and we’re beginning to see that; and you may well be correct, in that usually monetary benefit has to collapse before we begin to see how much we debase ourselves for currencies, with arbitrary value that rise and collapse on the ultrawealthy whims, on both the personal and collective levels.