I was reading a book that has turned out as good as I thought it might be before I started, Mind vs. Money: The War between Intellectuals and Capitalism by someone I had never heard of, Alan S. Kahan. And there on page 145 I came across this sentence:

For Marx, the ideal form of politics is not the state, which he famously predicted would wither away, but free association.

And immediately as I read those words, the entire matrix of ideas that sit behind the progressive internationalist of our day, the elites who wish to subvert the nation state, the kinds of people who set up the EU, or open the borders on the American southern frontier, presented itself to me as a completely closed circle of ideas. This is the utopian vision of the far left, is and has always been. Obama is an empty vessel, generally with no serious wit and depth. But the animating ideas that drive those who fund and fill his head with the rhetoric he reads, that is their vision, the end of the nation state and the mixing of us all in one global village.

It is a nightmare vision, where the worst will ultimately pull the framework down, because the best will be drowned in the flood. And whatever you may wish for yourself, it is the outcome that is step by step being put into place, and cannot be stopped because the only answer is to recognise the problem, and then put that problem into words that will shape the politics of a people. And the fact is that there is virtually no place on the face of the globe where such politics is allowed to prevail, and where it is – Israel say – the enmity of the world, driven by its progressive elites, makes impossible a defence of any social order built on the historic circumstances of a particular people over the longer term.