France: Yet another nation turns against globalism: 80% see it as a job-killer

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9. Interesting post

Keep developing those ideas, I think you're on to something.

Another way to look at it is that, when it comes to trade, government is no longer functioning as an agent of its citizens, it is an intermediary, creating trade policies as requested, often word for word, by corporate donors for the purpose of hiring people and extracting resources from the cheapest and least regulated places on the planet, using our taxpayer-paid military to provide a "secure business environment" around the globe. So their concern about deficits their trade policies (and military expenses) are creating is secondary to the campaign cash they raise by passing the corporation's legislation.

edited to add:

I forgot to say that I absolutely agree that Democrats are making a huge mistake on trade policy. At least from the point of view of a U.S. citizen who doesn't profit from multinational corporation profits. there would be a terrible political price for it, but the Republicans are even worse on trade. Both parties have left the average U.S. citizen's interests completely unrepresented on this issue.