[bahblahbah]

Did I say anything about open borders? Anyway we have a lot of manufacturing in this country. My father works two manufacturing jobs and farms. Everything should be done on a case by case basis, but in general in the anglo world protectionism = socialism.

[anticommunist8]

Wrong. Protectionism is conservatism. Free trade is liberalism, as in free-market liberalism (not socialism). In 19th century Britain, the liberals were for free trade, the conservatives were against. But this is just a question of semantics.

The fact is that free trade is a threat to national sovereignty. A country that relies on others for its commodities ties its own hands in foreign policy matters.