I have drawn this analogy before ... and it is that Trump’s form of nationalism is similar in many ways to capitalism. And no, by nationalism I don’t mean Hitler’s Nazi party ... or this so-called white supremacism. I mean what Trump means ... putting your country first just like merchants under capitalism do their level best to serve their customers better than their competitors so that these customers keep coming back and allowing their businesses to prosper.
Every country should be putting themselves first ... like many do today ... how about China, Germany, Mexico and Russia? Countries which are shrinking violets (like the United States was for the last thirty years) and don’t put themselves first or put the interests of their leaders ahead of their people’s interests don’t prosper and often become, to use Trump’s expression, shit holes.
Just like enlightened economic self-interest (no, not greed) can and does form the basis of free-market capitalism ... so, this same “my country first” attitude keeps things balanced and moving forward in the world ... particularly when all countries practice it. Moreover, just like measured charity has a place under capitalism ... in order to present a principled face to one’s customers ... so a hand up to struggling countries can and should exist under nationalism ... just as long as a country does not give up its prerogatives to the globalist ... who believe that national interests need to take an absolute back seat to this truly greedy notion of the new world order ... where the Davos globalists like to control things and prosper.
So that city bumpkin, Trump, has it right ... if you care to listen.
Afterthought: To complete the analogy to capitalism, Davos globalists are the equivalent of merchants forming a cartel to stifle competition and fix prices.
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The problem with denouncing globalism is that our socialized military is already completely globalized, ready to fight a war or commit a fleet or drop bombs wherever we deem appropriate. And the problem with "putting your country first" is that your country is its citizens, their welfare, the infrastructure they live in, the resources that enable their well-being, the protections that ensure their safety... not putting the very wealthy and corporations first.
Putting the very wealthy and corporations first is the very essence of globalism. Have you ever watched the coverage of the Davos economic summit?
Yes. That’s what I was saying. American 1% are members of the global 1%. Do you not think that the American Fortune 500 corporations, executives, and therefore stockholders, do not have huge global interests?
I’m s stockholder of many companies ... but I still opt for American jobs, innotation and prosperity first. Sucking our country dry to help China prosper didn’t really work out.
Good for you! Do you buy only products made in the USA? Because that really is the only influence you have on American jobs and innovation. Even then, if you buy a pillow made in the USA by USA workers, was the machinery made in the USA with materials made in the USA by USA machinery (and so on...)? And wasn't it obvious that ceding all our manufacturing to China was fatal? Wal-Mart's "our prices are dropping" campaign was a blatant movement to erode our domestic factories and downtown independent stores forever.
You’re overthinking things ...
too bad we were not overthinking twenty years ago
You might be right...
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