It is the crisis of our times: Globalism. Our elites have a different vision than the rest of us. We will have to see if democracy is really still a powerfiul force in the nation.
I've tried to maintain a cool head about outsourcing. Being 51 and in IT, it's never far from your mind.
I live in Aliquippa, PA. It's a community that the rest of the world abandoned. It used to be a throbbing heartbeat of steel making.
The infrastructure is crumbling. Empty buildings where people strolled to shop are rotting. Houses are selling for what people paid for them in the 60's. Crime is up. Hope is down. According to all the "newspeak", this community should have recovered on its own. New jobs would replace the old jobs. But there isn't even an McDonalds in town.
The kids move away because there is nothing here for them. The taxes still rise while the tax base erodes. Tax sales are at an all time high. We've had a policeman executed by drug dealers. There is corruption.
We've already done this grand experiment. It does not make things better for society when it is not a win-win for business and society. The "newspeak" crowd would have us use their calculus to make it so. I, for one, am not buying. There must be some way to make things incrementally better for a society instead of always handing the prize to the immoral profiteers, i.e., those who win at any cost.
The GOP does not see international political adverseries. It sees international commerce markets. In that, it's hand-in-glove with the Fortune 500. That's part of the problem.
While this isn't a bad thing by itself, it does speak to a level of political naivete I would have expected to be wholly confined to the Dems.