[ninenot]

Another point that PJB makes, but quickly, is that one NEVER hears the "free trade" types talking about building up the USA--rather, all we hear is about "democratizing" the 3rd world into which we stuff our factories and jobs.

Damn good point. I really don't recall having learned, ANYWHERE, that it's incumbent on me or my children to install "democracy" in China at the expense of our house.

[GOP_1900AD]

Especially when we ourselves are supposed to be a Republic not a Democracy. True democracy in non Western countries would be the sure path to populist anti Western urges taken to geopolitical fruition. What a disaster.