I'm watching CSPAN and a relatively interesting panel discussion involving John McCain, Mark Warner, and John Sununu. The main topic is US foreign policy - evaluation of the recent past and upcoming challenges. McCain is dominating the discussion, not in terms of the viability of his ideas, but in terms of "on mic" time. Really, it's become mostly a give and take between conservative nationalist hawk McCain, light Republican moderator David Gergen, and libertarian, free-market hawk Sununu, with a slightly out-of-his league Mark Warner occasionally throwing in his two cents from the shadows.
My main question about Davos is as follows. Since Davos is supposed to be a "World Economic Forum" why the lack of diversity with respect to economic ideas, narrative perception, and personal background? More tangibly, how can you have a "World Economic Forum" without having any major representatives of international labor?
It seems to me that they've gathered an overwhelmingly white, wealthy, American and Western European conference all with deep roots in the elite meritocracy and in agreement with a basic economics of neoliberal internationalist capitalism.
This thing would be a lot more interesting if they simply added a real bonafide socialist to the panel (they're aren't that hard to find). And maybe a brown person or two.
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