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To: Texas_Dawg
Globalization will ultimately mean the responsibility of important decisions that used to be determined via democratic processes and institutions will not exist. Democracy cannot exist beyond the nation-state:

I believe it will lead to the weakening of the nation-state and we will look to undemocratically elected organizations such as the WTO, etc.

It's a brave new world and you seem to be comfortable with the idea of a weakened United States. You seem to like the idea of our wealth being redistributed all over the world. And most of all you seem to really like the idea of Americans brought down a few pegs. That is just competely incomprehensible to me.

170 posted on 08/20/2003 4:17:57 PM PDT by riri
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To: riri
Globalization will ultimately mean the responsibility of important decisions that used to be determined via democratic processes and institutions will not exist. Democracy cannot exist beyond the nation-state:

Should read

Globalization will ultimately mean the responsibility of important decisions that used to be determined via democratic processes and institutions will no longer rest with in this country. Democracy cannot exist beyond the nation-state:

171 posted on 08/20/2003 4:20:01 PM PDT by riri
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To: riri
I believe it will lead to the weakening of the nation-state and we will look to undemocratically elected organizations such as the WTO, etc.

That's fine, we'll see. Your crowd has been predicting this for awhile though. And just so you know, the WTO has no authority over anything we do whatsoever.

It's a brave new world and you seem to be comfortable with the idea of a weakened United States.

Not at all. That's why I'm happy we've never been more powerful economically and militarily. Ever. And I want to keep it that way. That's why I support the U.S. being free-market capitalist, no matter what anyone else wants to do.

172 posted on 08/20/2003 4:21:02 PM PDT by Texas_Dawg (I will not rest until every "little man" is destroyed.)
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To: riri
Yeah, Marx said that free trade was the enemy of the nation-state. I'm glad to be on the right side of that debate. Free traitors here at FR are welcome to tote their copies of The Communist Manifesto as they lead us to a UN world government future.
240 posted on 08/22/2003 8:51:41 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (Willie Green for President...)
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