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In reply to the discussion: Thomas Franks, the Clintons and "phony" Democratic populists in the New Gilded Age [View all]amandabeech
(9,893 posts)because tariffs would exist and transportation would not be so easy.
Big money saw a way to make big profits with cheap labor, lack of any organization of workers, lack of enforcement of labor and especially environmental laws. Workers can be made to live in odious conditions while people at the top pocket the money.
Before NAFTA, et al, we managed to avoid the race to the bottom for a huge percentage of US workers, and you know it.
You're obvious part of the top people who have managed to insulate himself culturally from world-wide competition--so far.
A few jobs have come back, but it is 1 for every one hundred that went to Mexico or China. And we continue to import people from other countries for more competition unlike everywhere else.
I find it revolting that someone like you is allowed to post on Democratic boards since you have benefited and now cheer on for the decimation of what real Democrats built in this country.
Go away and don't bother me with any more of your self-serving blather.