A lot has changed in 10 years.

It’s 20th April 2033 …... a lot has changed in the last 10 years.?

We have a Trump back in the White House for her 2nd term…. President Ivanka Trump, like her father, has focused on returning the USA to a more nationalistic direction and ensured that the nonsense of the climate change emergency, weak borders, and an over liberalized woke mentality, has been firmly reversed. Other policies have been strengthened and include a strong energy independence and a reduction in non productive immigration. The ongoing government mandate is a strong focus on national productivity fuelled by reduced imports and the reshoring of the manufacturing base, and this has aided trade balance and developed a solid recovery toward overall citizen prosperity.

?President Trump’s biggest regret is that her father is not alive to see the strengthening of the journey he had started.

?This more nationalistic approach has been adopted by other nations and has forced strong de-globalization in both trade and political alliances with the formation of three major trade blocs….. The Americas (both north and south), the European union that continues to struggle, and an eastern trade bloc of Russia and China, with India and other eastern nations having to decide how to align with these major trade blocs. The African continent is beginning to evolve into its own trade bloc, but it is still far from a stable environment. The middle east remains an unmanaged non-cohesive mess with a recent stagnation of those economies due to the diminishing importance of their oil resources through access to abundant north American energy, and the rapidly expanding utilization of nuclear power and green hydrogen now being the main thrust for electrification and propulsion.

?Canada has in the last decade ousted the over liberalized political doctrines and voted for a much more conservative and far more nationalist and streamlined government that is far better aligned with its trade bloc partners and is sharing in the prosperity journey with the USA. The American continental trade bloc is mutually utilizing the resources and skills of the Canadian population far more than ever before.

?But ….everyone who lived through the last 10 years understands just how much this relatively peaceful and prosperous future could have been so much different and far worse….

?Fortunately, we finally all voted for governments on both sides of the border that now work together in a working coalition to create a national social contract with a focus on a no-nonsense productivity and prosperity agenda. These national thinking governments undertook common goals of localized trade blocs that allowed us to prevail though most of the geo-political and geo-economic storms in the last 10 years.

?We all had to learn the hard way that western democracy is not the only approach to national governing and that forcing it on others at the expense of our own prosperity by entering into global free trade relationships to try to guarantee peace via a new world order was a huge mistake, and although it took far too long we came to understand how much global free trade was not a wealth generator, but was just a massive wealth transfer machine. Its certainly not the end of global trade, but it is no longer a firm political priority with any trade outside of the trade blocs being an option of mainly last resort.

?We finally agreed that the notion of building an economy around just services while also supporting significant levels of imports, even if you have resources to trade with, is not the way to get prosperity. All agreed we will need strong manufacturing, resources and services blended in a balanced economy. This way, we minimized the need for imports and reduced the need for exporting resources to pay for them.

?The unified North American governments made the USMCA a true trade bloc that enforced the suppression of past wasteful international agreements. This reduced unnecessary offshore imports to localize trade and leverage the advantage of local natural resources. This started a significant and much needed reshoring gradient that better manages the trade balance. A firm focus and action to support this journey was undertaken by government, the educational institutions, and industry-support organizations to respond to the challenge to take back manufacturing.

?An Integrated Industrial Learning System was launched, and it became a strong thrust for the citizen population to re-life itself and get back to solid and meaningful employment. The whole learning syllabus of our elementary and secondary schools was revisited and better focused around providing a solid education in STEM subjects to better position our youth for a solid career. Also, the image of manufacturing was improved with solid PR by a much more supportive media, and our youth started to see industry as cool, and a new maker culture emerged.

INDUSTRY 4.0 became the main investment focus across North America, and the financial institutions assisted our governments in an investment plan for the long-term restoration of manufacturing using these strategies.

Due to this INDUSTRY 4.0 approach, we needed far less new labor to drive productivity and growth. Therefore, less immigration was needed, and future immigrants are only admitted if they have firm employment offers and are deemed ready and aligned to join our society and contribute.

A long-range energy plan to support industry was undertaken, with nuclear power as the main thrust to support industry and the electrification of our modern society, so this allowed us to reduce unnecessary pollution. Also, overall energy strategies, including oil and gas, were developed, including transnational pipelines to ensure overall continental energy self-sufficiency through the short to long term.

The fallacy of the climate change emergency and the efforts at mitigating CO2 was eventually exposed as a hoax once science became far less subjugated by woke politics. ?Also, the fixation on wind and solar power has been now defined as a foolish and failed solution with nuclear power and a focus on green hydrogen using the abundance of nuclear power to produce being the future energy source strategy.

The issues of climate change were revisited and debated in a mature manner, and a more realistic perspective achieved, so that we avoided the blunder of climate-mitigation projects. Some adaptation projects are included in the new infrastructure projects that are being undertaken to support the re-industrialization journey.

?The western populations can now clearly see through the wasted energy of socialism and how its free lunch mentality will never work for us, and that with the reshoring of our manufacturing base we have now reindustrialized and got everybody back to productive work and a prosperous opportunity to become part of a true middle class.

?We eventually shook off the cultural and social derangement of woke thinking in our institutions and centres of learning and came to understand that that we should all focus far more on how we are doing than the obsession about who we are and also that any changes can only be addressed and communicated with free speech.

We came to realize we cannot legislate the concepts of Diversity Equality and Inclusiveness. ?Eventual acceptance of such changes by a society may be possible, but not at the expense of existing social norms and cultural history, and any change will require the building of tolerance and respect by all concerned.

?We significantly reduced the energy and investment at all levels on wasteful social-political agendas. We made the economy and prosperity the main agenda. In other words, less about “who we are” and much more about “how we are doing.”

We eliminated government and public sector waste and bureaucracy in all forms. We developed a plan for sustainable and economic development. The whole nation has developed a “get it done” attitude.

As part of the new social contract, we stopped the housing market financial casino, and other areas of over financialization of our economies. We added stricter controls on the movement of capital into our banking, investment, and business sectors with appropriate policies.

With assistance from our powerful media, we communicated the social contract and the prosperity plans and progress. We re-installed hope for future prosperity back into the minds of our citizens, and especially all our youth. Also, we ensured that everyone had a clear view of their own roles and responsibilities to undertake this prosperity journey.

We have all reinstalled the image of a nation with citizens who have rights, but also civic responsibilities, and we re-learned the common ground between the differences between ourselves, so we can live in harmony. Our youth became our greatest generation ever, and they have fueled the new industrial environment so that it is productive, prosperous, and highly sustainable, and together we were able to take back manufacturing and gain back our prosperity!

?We also had to learn that the main role of our military is to manage the security of our own trade bloc borders and ensure to a limited extent we support and maintain a global detent to total war. But we also came to terms with the concept of national assimilation and border adjustments such as the Russians taking back Ukraine and the Chinese retaking Taiwan, being part of natural cultural re-unification and localized trade bloc development.

It also became clear that globalist centric organizations such as the United Nations and the World Economic Forum were projecting ideals and policy not in the best interest of most of the western nations, and a reduction in commitments to such dangerous globalist directions have been undertaken by most nations. In other words, we have reverted back to a more nation centric approach to geopolitics, albeit organized into more localized trade blocs, rather than the failed approach of a globalized new world order that has served us and our citizens poorly in the past. We came to understand that we were just not ready for multilateralism, multinationalism, multiculturalism and other forms of cosmopolitan constructs that had damaged the autonomy of the nation states… We may find a better balance in the future to globalize our civilizations, but its clear that if it does happen it must be far better planned next time!