In the name of ‘free trade’ and ‘capitalism’, US sovereignty, & national security have been sacrificed to open borders needed for the unimpeded movement of goods and natural persons, i.e. units of labor.
US business (not global corporations) and US workers have been placed at a severe disadvantage by onerous taxes, extreme environmental regulations, and political correctness.
Capitalism has morphed into a form of corporatism / fascism running under the Ferengi rules of Acquisition.
The economic destruction of the US and its middle class did not start last November with the election of Zero. It has been going on for a long time. The bulk of our ‘political class’ are well paid enablers.
We have forgotten what I call the dark side of human nature, what Bastiat refers to as the ‘common tendency’ of ‘mankind’ to ‘live and prosper at the expense of others’.