I get that, in theory, free trade is beneficial and reduces prices. But the one thing the free traders have not been able to do or explain is how to bring good jobs back to the small towns of Middle America. Way too many towns have turned into drug-riddled Welfare dependencies where the only good jobs are government jobs. Factories moving to Mexico caused that. I’m not saying that the companies moving the factories are evil or made an irrational choice, but the end result was generations without jobs, living off Welfare and turning to drugs. What is the answer for these people? Screaming that Bernie Sanders is a Communist isn’t an answer.
Since when is Mark Levin the expert on the trade issue? I listened to him from 2002-2016, and once every few months he’d say something about the cost of products going down if they’re made abroad, but that’s it.
Free trade will lead to socialism.
Pressure on workers to get “re-educated, re-trained” will cost them money, leading to pressure to socialize all education, including higher education, and everyone will be paying for higher education, and thus more socialism.
The workers who can’t find decent-paying work, will vote for those who will give them $15/hr wages and higher, leading to either wage inflation or more robots or a mix of both. With enough people out of work, there will be people voting for a universal guaranteed income (even if you don’t work ever), and thus more socialism.
Too many Walmart workers with low wages and crap jobs (compared to manufacturing) ends up creating more people on welfare, and thus again, more socialism.
Pretty much all branches on the “tree” of globalism lead to the root, which is socialism. And all of the globalism, free-trade, and socialism will lead to destruction of culture (including American culture in values), abandonment of the Republic and values in favor of more “international values”, e.g. disarmament, free speech, etc.
Free Trade increases the profit margin of the middle men, it doesn’t lower the price to the consumer.