I agree that the theory of free trade sounds great. BUT there are problems it doesn't consider. For one, the destruction wrought by "free" trade with a nation that uses slave labor (China), namely the hollowing out of the West's manufacturing jobs and the loss of middle class prosperity. For another, the accumulation of obscene levels of wealth by the managerial class and political/cultural "elite" as they accrue all the economic benefits of free trade in tandem with the aforementioned destruction of the middle class. The political polarization and fragmentation the article laments are not the prime causes of the problems we face, they are reactions to the problems noted above. Unfortunately, as the article describes, they feed back into the destructive cycle.
Sure blame the Trump administration for looking out for the sovereign interests of its PEOPLE but the true blame lies with the Chinese Communist Party. You cannot have one sided unfettered globalism with a ruthless communist dictatorship that further lines their military pocketbook to be potentially used against your own people down the road. Trump showed the Chinese communist party’s true colors. What has 40 years of unfettered globalism got us with china? Are they are more of a “democracy” with globalism? No… now they are a heavily armed hostile regime. Globalism created a monster in the CCP.
Globalism, I believe, absent a true united-world western-valued nations, and governed by elected united-world central government, is a canard. Gosh forbid if the world did have one government, a-la the European Commission (dictatorship masking as socialism while calling itself a union), but I think there is no risk of such calamity, as we can hardly put down violent conflicts inter- and intra-nations. And luckily, we have a cauldron of cultures, and economic realities, which is why we like to travel the world, I suppose. But the core issue to this foundation conservative, is that good comes from the bottom up, not from the top down. The foundation of the best families are all family members, not what the titular head of the household alone wishes it to be. And likewise, examine the people of, let's say, Sweden, and you see how good people produce and sustain good culture, and from there good economies. And Somalia, as a counter example. Let each country seek to be the best it can be for itself, believing that there are no handouts coming its way, no UN observers to save it, and no internal strife. And then let these countries collaborate with like-minded countries. And then let's see Africa and Arabia become modern western societies, and South America become free market based, and China and Russia become just international-law-abiding nations. Then, we can talk about globalism. Why, we can even use Davos to centrally plan all of that globalism, as we are oh so close to agreeing on unified global warming countermeasures.
I agree that the theory of free trade sounds great. BUT there are problems it doesn't consider. For one, the destruction wrought by "free" trade with a nation that uses slave labor (China), namely the hollowing out of the West's manufacturing jobs and the loss of middle class prosperity. For another, the accumulation of obscene levels of wealth by the managerial class and political/cultural "elite" as they accrue all the economic benefits of free trade in tandem with the aforementioned destruction of the middle class. The political polarization and fragmentation the article laments are not the prime causes of the problems we face, they are reactions to the problems noted above. Unfortunately, as the article describes, they feed back into the destructive cycle.
Sure blame the Trump administration for looking out for the sovereign interests of its PEOPLE but the true blame lies with the Chinese Communist Party. You cannot have one sided unfettered globalism with a ruthless communist dictatorship that further lines their military pocketbook to be potentially used against your own people down the road. Trump showed the Chinese communist party’s true colors. What has 40 years of unfettered globalism got us with china? Are they are more of a “democracy” with globalism? No… now they are a heavily armed hostile regime. Globalism created a monster in the CCP.
Globalism, I believe, absent a true united-world western-valued nations, and governed by elected united-world central government, is a canard. Gosh forbid if the world did have one government, a-la the European Commission (dictatorship masking as socialism while calling itself a union), but I think there is no risk of such calamity, as we can hardly put down violent conflicts inter- and intra-nations. And luckily, we have a cauldron of cultures, and economic realities, which is why we like to travel the world, I suppose. But the core issue to this foundation conservative, is that good comes from the bottom up, not from the top down. The foundation of the best families are all family members, not what the titular head of the household alone wishes it to be. And likewise, examine the people of, let's say, Sweden, and you see how good people produce and sustain good culture, and from there good economies. And Somalia, as a counter example. Let each country seek to be the best it can be for itself, believing that there are no handouts coming its way, no UN observers to save it, and no internal strife. And then let these countries collaborate with like-minded countries. And then let's see Africa and Arabia become modern western societies, and South America become free market based, and China and Russia become just international-law-abiding nations. Then, we can talk about globalism. Why, we can even use Davos to centrally plan all of that globalism, as we are oh so close to agreeing on unified global warming countermeasures.