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In reply to the discussion: Free traders, and I mean all of them, worldwide, do you understand what's wrong here? [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)I would argue only with the term "Globalization".
Globalization is not some NEW thing that just came along in the 80s because of the InterNet.
Globalization has been happening since the first Cave Man walked across the valley to the next tribe and traded some Spear Points for a Fish.
It is thoroughly natural and beneficial as long as certain common sense guidelines (regulations) are in place
The problem is NOT "Globalization", but the de-regulation of International and Interstate Trade. To achieve this, the RICH (Corporate Owners) designed and perpetrated a SCAM to access Slave Labor in the 3rd World, Bust Unions, and avoid Accountability for Raping & Poisoning the Environment.
They had absolutely NO data, statistics, or logical support for their BOGUS theory that De-regulating Trade would be GOOD for the American Working Class.
In fact, they KNEW that they would have to override Common Sense,
so they invented a New Magic Religion that demanded absolute Fealty and Submission to an Invisible Deity, and used Smooth Talking Politicians to SELL their New religion to a gullible American Public.
The RICH Scammers KNEW that Americans love NOTHING more than Blind Faith Religions and MAGIC,
and Americans, on the advice of their politicians, thoughtlessly threw away 100 years of regulation, oversight, and Public Accountability that had built the Largest, Wealthiest, and Most Upwardly Mobile Working Class the World had ever seen. Many of those buying into this New Blind Faith religion had had fathers and grandfathers who had given their LIVES to establish the very same regulations that they quickly discarded in their foolish flight to embrace their New Magic God...The Giant Invisible Hand.
[font size=4]The Graven Image on the Altar....

..of the New Church of the Invisible Hand![/font]
This SCAM is BEAUTIFUL and Elegant in its simplicity,
has worked PERFECTLY as designed,
and is STILL being sold to gullible Americans who continue to petition this Magic Invisible Deity for Economic Salvation despite all the evidence to the contrary that exists on every street in America.
It is Embraced and Marketed by BOTH dominant Political Parties (all members of the Rich Ownership Class),
so American voters have NO OPTION but to vote for MORE "Free Trade",
and, under the unquestioned guidance of their Political Leadership, continue to bow down to the New Imaginary Gods and give away their very ability to earn a living.
Now THAT is a Beautiful SCAM.
Sorry Virginia,
but there is NO Giant Invisible Hand,
and there is no such thing as "Free Markets" or "Free Trade".
The RICH Made-That-Shit-Up to get More MONEY.
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their rhetoric, promises, or excuses.
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