The wealth tax, it's because of the growing socio-economic inequalities driven by technology. Those who get rich out of them benefit from network effects that ensure they will get increasingly richer AND they will be fewer and fewer to be so.

The European civil war, is based on talking to people, on my experience and knowledge of history and human nature, and simply on my observations of the downward spiral of these societies and the level of anger and hopelessness in the population.

The UK revival is simply based on logic.

And finally, the revival of the catholic church is based on history. Many, many times, the church has gone through a bad period, but since human institutions always failed, people always went back to it. Pay attention. There are a few secular conservatives going back to church at the moment. Religion remains the best way to fight off the ambient nihilism.

Voila!