[WatchingInAmazement]

" If absolute globalization really is inevitable, it doesn’t need such a vociferous lobby. It will happen at its own organic pace. Trying to force it prematurely will just cause a backlash here and abroad—as it already has from Van Nuys to Venezuela to Vladivostok."

[WatchingInAmazement]

more from Mr. Johnson

http://www.mindspring.com/~macjohnson/

[Xenophobic Alien]

I'm not even going to comment here!

[dirtboy]

Nice essay. Thanks for posting it.

[Regulator]

It is not Xenophobia. It is Xenonausea. People are sick of having the whole world shoved down their throats at once and being told it tastes like ice cream. They are sick of every street corner and parking lot being filled with criminal aliens waiting to work off the books and outside the laws that are applied so enthusiastically to actual Americans. They are sick of pressing “1” for English. They are sick of being at war with foreign terrorists and simultaneously being economically and demographically bound more tightly to the nations producing these terrorists. They are sick of being told that the world is global or flat or smaller or at their doorstep or all coming for dinner on Tuesday

Pretty much sums it up.

[kaktuskid]

Yet the same yoinks drive Japanese and Korean cars and often have a full house of Chinese and Taiwanese made electronics, toys, appliances, clothing, etc.And then they complain about "globalism".

[Prokopton]

Great post!

[kenth]

This guy is hysterical.  ;-)

[janetgreen]

By now we know that "free trade" isn't free at all, it's costing us a bundle every year. Southern California's latest "gift" from Mexico is that, thanks to NAFTA, Mexican trucks will soon be rolling into our Los Angeles/Long Beach port. Many (probably most) of them are old junk trucks, and they will be driven by Mexicans who probably don't even speak or read English.

The BIG gift to us is the TONS of pollution they will be bringing to our communities here, caused by junk trucks that...guess what? WILL NOT HAVE TO COMPLY WITH THE SAME SMOG STANDARDS THAT OUR VEHICLES DO!

Someone tell me WHY third world dump Mexico is suddenly king of America?

[mr_hammer]

Thanks for the post!

[dagogo redux]

Great post! Thanks.

[trubluolyguy]

For me the whole ports fiasco along with the Meiers argument a few months ago should go to show friend and foe alike that conservatives are first and foremost NOT a bunch of lock-step mind-numbed robots. Secondly, when we feel the supposed leadership of the movement are off their collective nut, we'll call them on it and damn the consequences. You were elected by conservatives because you ran as conservatives. Govern as squishy moderates and we'll throw you out on your asses.

[bassmaner]

Memo to the elites: after 9/11, a little xenophobia and nativism in America is a GOOD thing.

And as far as being accused of racism, most Americans are not, but we ignore the fact that ALL of the 19 9/11 hijackers were ARAB MUSLIMS to our own peril. As Ronald Reagan once said, "trust but verify": it's dereliction of duty for our government to NOT profile ARAB MUSLIMS in America, and at least develop contingency plans for their internment and/or deportation.

[primeval patriot]

I’m sensing that the Beltway Boys and the Wall Street Wonks have been entertaining some animosity against Main Street and the Heartland for some time.

LOL, they post here every day.

you tell them it’s time to go home and they explode into tears and theatrics while flopping about on the floor

But what about the shareholders? Waaaahhh!

[Publius6961]

Just like "racism", "xenophobia" is so ocerused that it's meaningless.

Xenonausea... I like it!

[Flavius Josephus]

I was going to just open this thread to make a joke about it being wise to be afraid of Lord Xenu, but that was a very good analysis.

He left off Europe from his list of backlashed countries. The failure of the EU constitution was a fairly significant message to send to the elites in Brussels.

I think elites should go to the bottom of the sea whether rat or pub. None of 'em are worth a hoot in hell.

[CowboyJay]

Great article!

Xenonausea?

Check!

[Graymatter]

This writer is in Massachusetts? And not just anywhere in MA but in Cambridge?
We should organize a party to free him, no?

[MNJohnnie]

"as a bunch of xenophobic ignoramuses"

Maybe because that was what the Port Deal Hysterics were. And yes you arrogant children it IS YOUR FAULT. YOU were told and simply screamed down anyone who did not mindlessly regurgitate DNC talking points to validate your in the closet bigotry and hysteria. The Port Deal hysteria was the most disgraceful display of chicken little panic and economic ignorance in Modern US History. HERE is what the Port Deal was about. Way to go "Conservatives". Way to do the Democrats PR dirty work for them.

And was it not just the sweetest little Influence for Hire scam.

Eller & Co , run by fat cat Democrat Donors, got beat out for the P&O deal by Dubai Port World. They hired a big shot lawyer and filed a lawsuit. They knew the Lawsuit was crap so they scurried up to Capitol Hill to cry for help. The Unions also hated the deal cause they knew in new Union Negotiations with the new company they were going to get seriously squeezed by demands of labor saving technological improvements. Chucky Schumer, head of the Democrat Senate Election Committee, took the lobbying info and ran with it. It allowed him to do a number of things. It allows Democrats to nuke their "weak on National Security" PR vulnerability. It gets him a big wet sloppy kiss from the unions in terms of money and foot solider for the Senate campaigns. It gets him big dollars from the Port Terminal companies, it drives a wedge into the Republican base, and best of all he got Know Nothing Talking Heads like Sean Hannity, Mike Savage and Laura Ingraham etc. to do the PR dirty work for him.

The best thing is he can walk away a big winner now, OR he can go to stage two and lobby that the ports be "nationalized" like they did with the Airline Screeners. The Congresscowards, their usual gutless selves, simply looked at the polls and panicked. NEVER even thought that they should stand by the President and fight for the truth. They simply panicked and rolled over for the Dem's AGAIN.

No national security implications, no nonsense about "turning our ports over to Arabs" simply a business deal where the losers went to Congress to buy the influence to reverse the deal. The same Americans running the port terminals now would of been running them after the deal for Dubai Port World. The name on the outside of the terminal and the name on the paycheck given to the American terminal workers would have change and that is about it.

Simply amazing that the same people who whine endlessly about "Bush big spending" and "Big Govt Republicans" now have seen to it that there will be an expansion in the cost, scope and reach of the Federal Govt over the Private Sector. That's the REALITY which the Whine All The Time Choir just screamed down rather then admit the knee jerk nature of their "I'm mad at Bush" hissy fit about the Terminal Deal.

[hedgetrimmer]

Trying to force it prematurely will just cause a backlash here

Is it time to storm the castle Globalstein?

[thoughtomator]

This article is a masterpiece!