{"id":95693,"date":"2016-05-11T12:28:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T20:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95693"},"modified":"2016-05-11T12:28:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T20:28:28","slug":"do-you-want-to-live-in-a-world-without-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95693","title":{"rendered":"Do You Want To Live In A World Without Borders?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/kerrys_wrong_address_steve_sailer\/print#ixzz48Nd2WJHU\">Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: The world today is organized around the principle of nationalism, with which Trump identifies. All land except the South Pole and (on paper) the West Bank and the Golan Heights is divided up under the dominion of territorial states. Perhaps this isn\u2019t ideal, but it is the way the world works. Everybody more or less controls their own territory.<\/p>\n<p>And the world works relatively well under the current order. 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