[MatthewViti]

"Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection."

-- House Speaker Newt Gingrich, at a President's Day Republican fundraiser, May 1998

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actually, totalitarianism will be what we have here in the US when hordes of displaced middle class workers whose jobs have been offshored, elect Hillary President of the United States with a Democratic Congress.

none of these "cutes quotes" mean anything with regards to solutions or intelligent comments on this topic. If your opinion is that nothing should be done, that the "free market" and "free trade" ought to be allowed to hollow out the American middle class, then just say that. Don't make excuses, don't give us any predictions about how all the offshoring projects will fail, or how the next new wave of entrenprenuers will employ everyone, or how someone who loses a $70K white collar job can do just as well on a $35K service jobs. Don't waste our time with that junk. Just say "I would do nothing, and let it happen", and leave it at that, and whatever political consequences come of it, be prepared to accept them.