There’s a battle of world views that is happening on the world stage. The modern Republican view is that there is a winner and a loser in all negotiations. If you aren’t winning then you are losing. This worldview leads to needless combativeness.
The other worldview is that each side can win equally in every negotiation. This worldview first came to me when studying capitalism. The idea is that productivity and goods are part of a pie of pizza. You don’t just get your slice but in real capitalism something is produced and the pie gets larger. Therefore everyone’s piece gets larger.
If you insert this idea into current politics you may see what I am suggesting. Trump’s destruction of Federal service or international politics in hopes his pie slice is bigger than the other person’s is shortsighted. He is burning the pizza and gloating that his two slices are the best slices on the block. The world needs cooperation; not political toddler tantrums from our president.
Millionaire Librarian 