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Since when does globalization mean global governance???

Heaven forfend! I am against any supranational organization which usurps sovereignity: UN, World Court... Globalization refers to the increasing economic interconnectedness inherent in widely practiced trade.

Consider this passage from the Englishman Sir Henry Parnell, who published a book entitled "On Financial Reform". A quote from this book:

"If once men were allowed to take their own way, they would very soon, to the great advantage of society, undeceive the world of the error of restricting trade, and show that the passage of merchandise from one state to another ought to be as free as air and water. Every country should be as a general and common fair for the sale of goods, and the individual and nation which makes the best commodity should find the greatest advantage."

And add to that this quote from Jefferson:

"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none."

And there you have it in a nutshell.

You would think Jefferson a socialist because he would use the constitution to look out for America's interests instead of communist china. There is no free trade. We are not conducting free trade now.

All the that someone needs is a little double speak in the title and most "conservatives" are fooled so completely they'll call the constitution socialism and slave labor "free trade".

"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none."

This results in something quite a bit different than the englishman's shortsightedness.

When you have a global economy, you have to have global agencies to govern it. An economy is what a government is based on. No economy, no government; conversly once you have a government, an economy follows. The two are inseperatable. Once you have global governance in one area, the the other areas just naturally follow.

People resist a global regime, as you do. But people can be halfstepped into anything. Incrementalism makes it hard to draw a line. With small changes, drawing a line in the sand can be easily spun as stubborn and intransigent, making the act politically infeasible. The economy is a big halfstep, which is why it is advanced first.

But if we do not draw that line, we will find ourselves minor characters in a science fiction story about a future abusive world power.