The Big Disconnect

The problem with isolationist politics
is not just how much bad fences
always depreciate the neighbourhood,
where the loudest shouts at the weakest
'You owe me', when they just don't.

This quickly leads to isolationist states 
depreciating the values of citizenship
among it's own population as if how it acted
had no consequences, which in turn
means the state has to fake how wide
its support is among journalists
until the public reading of politics
is laden with Alice-in Wonderland logic, 
replete with its own disconnected semiotics.

This hides, amongst many sensible questions,
how, when, and where, the big disconnect started.