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Irish,German, Russian,Italian and American nationalism are remarkably similar though with a different emphasis because all are based on the garnering of a domestic market for an emergent class of employers and middlemen. German nationalism is distinguished by supremacist notions formed between 1847 and 1883. American nationalism has disastrous imperialist outworkings. That nationalism is only now being overcome. Irish nationalism is tinged with a definite belief in faith and Irish Unity. Italian nationalism is characterised by Mother Love (because very few Italians remain faithful to their spouses for long). In Italy nationalism is also marked by rebel song. .... Nationalism is very much a beast of the backwoodmen's making. The most dangerous type is the German type. German nationalism in its political form was best summed up by Wagner (1847),"No end or end goal marks out the German race rather the process of strivation" . In Ireland as Wolfe Tone said,nationalism is Engl...

 ...surely,is it not time as I wrote in my teleological election proposals for the North and South in September 2009  that Belfast had a proper electric light railway i.e. trams as superannuated geriatrics such as myself call them and an electrified railway network was built across the North by trade union workers and a motorway was built between Belfast and Derry. If there is £108 billions of public money available for the electric high-speed railway in England we can build an electrified train and tram network in Northern Ireland and build it with trade union labour with the aim to keep work outcomes predictable and to ensure that social insurance and income tax are paid to fund our generous welfare system and public housing.  This could be financed at 2/7 of the cost of the Southern Luas and DART because the South is a society and economy which imbibed the narcotic of "value-added" prices during its rapid accumulation and late development era.( But now,I ask,why is eve...