Wishful Thinking

It is a fact that the member countries in the European Union have given away bits of their sovereignty. Indeed, while most of them remain in denial of the extent to which they have done so, they have handed over a lot more decision making powers to Brussels than they would like to believe. This is no bad thing and I for one would not be unhappy if we were to ultimately go a step further and establish some sort of regulated global government that was elected through some sort of democratic process. The reasons for this are very simple.
Firstly, the Hu Jintaos and Vladimiar Putins of this world are not really accountable to their own people and, increasingly, make decisions that effect the planet as a whole. Moreover, and more importantly, in the United States, a so-called "democratic" country, the influence that the Vice President can actually exert can be limited but, as we have seen with Cheny, this is not always the case. Sarah Pallin could very well be the next American Vice President and the 44 year old, to put it mildly, does not know her ass from her elbow when it comes to foreign policy. Furthermore, her idiotic, "the jury's still out on that one"1, when asked if she beieved that climate change might be attributed to the actions of human beings, is indicative of her being, like Dick Cheny, a staunch supporter of the oil industry. This is a lady who is the Governor of Alaska, a state with just 600,000 people, most of whom want to get as much money out of the place as possibe before the oil, fish and wildlife disappear.
China is on the horizon and Russia is flexing its muscles again but there is some way to go before the Chinese or the Russians dictate to the rest of the planet and there is time to put global institutions into place that might limit the chances of that happening. We have already had a stolen election in the States followed by eight years of Bush and Cheny along with wars that ignored international law and international institutions before using and abusing those institutions to further purely machiavellian aims. It is time now to stop the rot and put global institutions into place that stop this happening again.
1 'The Guardian' September 17, 2008 'Society Guardian Environment' p9