“Globalism” has components worth unpacking. I oppose most of them.
Open borders are awful for the people of developed countries; they depress wages.
Surrendering the power of law to a higher than national authority is horrible. People need to hold their directly elected representative accountable. Removing the power of law to a supra-national body makes lawmaking immune to the will of the governed.
Mass Bureaucracy is a common horror of “Globalism”.
National Security particularism should be reserved to the Nation State in almost all cases.
Cultural distinction is valued by people, and top-down forced commonality is distasteful.
There is one part of “Globalism” that I know many people don’t like, but I don’t even think of it as “Globalism”: The right of people to trade with whomever they wish. That is simply Freedom. Someone coming along and with FORCE disallowing someone their innate FREEDOM is itself a Globalist FORCE. Non-force cannot be any “-ist” or “-ism” much less Globalist, since individuals choose. There is no forced philosophical bent other than getting out of the way.
Folks want to be hatin’ on economic freedom. It’s threatening. So much simpler if some Sugar Daddy protects them from having to improve to serve their customers. But that’s life. If you want actual freedom, you have to attract customers without the FORCE of BIASED BUREACRATS coming down on your side. Or maybe the other guy’s side if you don’t donate enough to the Bureaucrats.
For those who want Tariffs to protect industries, let me make a deal with you. I’ll completely agree to Tariffs on one condition: I get to decide. I’m smarter, a well trained economist, more even-handed than anyone else you could possibly find. I *promise* to only favor those industries that (ahem) make it worth my while. And if you don’t agree that I’m good enough, who exactly will fill that same role of collecting all the favors of the protection seekers?
Free movement of peoples across Europe is bad for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe because of the resulting Brain Drain, as they leave for other parts of Europe. They need to stay in Poland to help improve their country. Otherwise, the only people left in those countries will be the old, and those too poor to leave, can’t have a decent country like that.
in well functioning representative democracies people will have more freedom and so a better standard of living.
people outside of well functioning representative democracies will be provided with incentive to work harder to compete in the open market with goods produced by well functioning representative democracies.
people in well functioning representative democracies will always have tariffs which prevent their workers being overwhelmed by shoddy products built by slaves and child workers in polluted environments.
most economists who are either directly or indirectly on the take from globalists will always favor so called free trade to favor international corporations over ordinary people. economists are fundamentally antithetical to well functioning representative democracies.
that is to say, let me be explicit here so that my meaning is clear, most economists’ notions are biased and not to be trusted as far as one can spit, because they are fundamentally compromised. they are fundamentally compromised because of who pays them and if not them, most in their peer group— generally, globalists.
the usa was built on tariffs. without tariffs— no usa!
economists gave us nafta, gatt, wto, and the eu. if enough of them were around at the beginning there would have been no usa at all, just a bunch of exxons, and general electrics, plus lots of child labor, shoddy products, polluted environments, and banana republic dictatorships.
> I’ll completely agree to Tariffs on one condition: I get to decide. I’m smarter, a well trained economist,I’ll completely agree to Tariffs on one condition: I get to decide. I’m smarter, a well trained economist, ...
wow, you are a first class something.
We’re going to get along just fine, you and I.
L