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| Globalization is not a concept but reality |
I keep thinking of the rock song: “Hang on....Help is on the way!”....We need the cavalry out. And the elephant in the room is Globalization. It’s the dirty word for the 38% crowd. The odd thing is that these protectionist policies are going to hit them as much or more as it will everyone else. These are not the elitists. The Elite of the GOP want free and fair trade. The only small group that is cheering are the steel workers and their union leaders.
Everyone else is screwed in this. And the idea that we are
going to go back to the 19th Century coal mine and aluminum and steel
based economic models is laughable. There are books written, classes held and
studies showing that automation is going to eliminate a segment of the work
force. Preparing for the New Economy is going to take a Manhattan Project
effort. We need a leader that we can get behind that will shove home this
message every day of his or her campaign.
We need political parties to get behind the workers in America
and start telling the truth. And we need the political opportunists using “America
First” and “Globalization is bad” as mantras for a winning coalition to sit
down and shut up. They are lying to the American workers. Globalization means
we are on the Internet, using IPAD’s and IPHONE’s and that we are buying
products from WalMart. Globalization is what keeps the commerce flowing and why
we have a modern industrialized world. That is a fact, and we are not going to
change it with Mussolini Jr. waving his arms and smugly lipping some banal
slogans that countermand the march of time and progress of nation-states.
If Trump is the answer, then it’s a damn peculiar question. And
the sooner the message is figured out or formulated that will countermand the
Fox News Formulated: Kool-Aid agenda that is drunk by the other side the better
it will be for all concerned.
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