At the core of the political polarisation today is a fundamental clash of worldviews.

Deeper than that, it is a fundamental clash around how we understand human nature.

The worldview we perceive emerging today begins with a profound recognition: humanity is not separate from Life. We are participants within the Earth as a single living system, and our future depends upon learning to organise our societies from within that reality rather than apart from it.

As an emerging transnational political party, Majesty seeks to emerge as a global network of national parties that participate fully in the democratic and electoral processes of their respective countries, while sharing a common alignment with the health, stability, and long-term flourishing of the Earth system as a whole.

Today the humanity is at war with itself along the lines of the fundamental ideological differences between the world’s major approaches to governance, politics, religion, and culture.

The massive rise of nationalist populism (Trump, Bannon, Brexit, Farage, Reform, Bolsonaro, AfD, Marine Le Pen, etc.) is a reaction to a crisis where humanity is facing global scale challenges but has not yet emerged as a global species.

Today, as our political systems fracture, the post-WW2 world order crumbles, as economic inequality stretches our societies to their limit, and the ecological crisis escalates, humanity is experiencing an existential crisis.

To understand the complex relationship between Putin and Trump, we need to look deeper at what is happening with Ukraine currently than the surface narrative.

In Western liberal democracies, as labour shortages, aging demographics, refugee crises, and spiralling climate change fuel waves of immigration, the right and left are at war over this topic.

Today, humanity stands at a crossroads. The current global economic paradigm, structured around scarcity, debt, and extractive labour, has become a source of widespread suffering, ecological degradation, rampant materialism, and toxic inequality. Trillions of dollars circulate through a financial system that concentrates wealth in the hands of a few while billions struggle in wage slavery, trading their lives for mere survival.

“Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely”. Lord Acton

Our world is beset with seemingly intractable problems on local, national, and international scales — from the ecological crisis to the pandemic to trade wars and international conflicts — that our nation-states, at least until now, seem unable to provide lasting solutions for.

Liz Truss’ government in Britain has collapsed in a downward spiral of chaotically polarised drama beyond anything seen in a long time.

Indeed, the level of crisis radiating from the whole affair has highlighted just what a fractured place partisan politics has led us to.

For over two weeks now, anti-government protests have been spreading through Iran after Mahsa Amini, 22, a Kurdish woman, died after having been in a coma for three days, followed by an apparent stroke after being detained by the country’s so-called morality police for wearing an “improper hijab” in the capital, Tehran.

Majesty stands for a new form of representation.

One where those entrusted to represent us do so on the basis of having realised the singularity of humanity, life and the earth within them.