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15. It wasn't just the Birchers. "The militantly anti-government right, and secondarily fundamentalist
Thu Mar 22, 2012, 04:40 PM
Mar 2012

Christians concerned with end-time emergence of the Antichrist" were also on the One World Government conspiracy bandwagon. They are all suspicious of the multilateral organizations created by FDR and "progressives who welcomed these new international organizations" like the UN, IMF, and GATT endorsed by FDR and Truman.

Proclaiming that there is "a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government—which replaces sovereign nation-states" is not exactly the same as proclaiming the sky to be blue. If you want to give the Birchers, militant anti-government right and fundamentalist Christian organizations the benefit of the doubt on this conspiracy theory, you may certainly do so. I disagree with them on this.

I don't see a world with 200 nation-states as inherently superior to a world where global problems like climate change, deforestation, disappearing fresh water supplies and an interconnected world economy are addressed in a coordinated way. Whether you want to call that "coordinated way" globalism or a one-world government or an international organization of national governments, matters little to me. When national governments get in the way of global solutions to global problems, well that matters to me. (Similarly, when state governments get in the way of national solutions to national problems (like immigration and universal health care), well that matters to me, too.)

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