Posted on 02/16/2023 8:13:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
There's no such thing as "international law".
Law requires a lawgiver. The fifty States united have, under their Constitution delegated SOME of their lawgiving powers to a Congress where each State is represented by two delegates (they are called Senators).
That Constitution begins, "ALL legislative powers herein granted...", and goes on to describe the structures of the Congress, and what it can and cannot do.
No power to make laws that bind the 50 States united exists anywhere else on Earth.
Most of our founding fathers made fortunes off of agriculture and still they were to a man on board with import tariffs. Amazing vision these guys had.
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Industry/Manufacturing and Agriculture are natural allies.
When Trump raised tariffs on Chinese goods, it was amusing to watch Wall Street & every left-wing nut in the country pretend to care about the interests of farmers.
You forgot your sarcasm tag.
Disagree. The arrogance and naïveté of a young America, fresh off the heroism of WW2 and led by its "educated" class, thought up this idea of using the poor in other countries to produce our easily replicated consumer goods as a means of commercial efficiency. Obviously the Republicans of yore were in favor of it.
It was a hugely misbegotten idea, as Greenfield deftly points out—a sort of worldwide hysteria to never have a world war again by buying peace. This country thought so highly of itself that it did not reckon with the obvious downside of becoming unequally yoked into binding relationships with non-Christian societies with different concepts of morality.
We are now in the midst of another worldwide hysteria, or perhaps another iteration of the same worldwide hysteria, so we have no excuse for denying that a worldwide hysteria can happen. This one (plandemic + climate change) is aided and abetted by the internet; so the urgency around figuring it out and neutralizing its destructive power is paramount.
A fundamentally anti-Western idea at its core. The great majority of people go where they are led. It is only an individual recognition of the salvific atonement of Christ that frees a person, and the nation that affirms this reality.
America was great when it was a Christian nation. This land was dedicated to Christ at the Plymouth landing. Contrary to popular misinformation, and regardless of denominational variations, virtually all the Founders acknowledged the Biblical foundations of Western thought. The attendent beliefs have been cited multiple times even in our Supreme Court decisions up until the end of WW2. In my lifetime, I've watched it all being disassembled, piece by piece, starting in 1948. Now look.
Going green is serfdom ruled by tyranny.
Greenfield's well-taken point is that the giant is no longer just sleeping, but rather is drugged, anesthetized, unable to respond. He is calling for extreme awareness of the patient's near-death situation. Bring the paddles and stand clear.
What do you mean? We should allow a foreign-born person to be President? We already did.
We should allow foreign-born persons to live here and receive benefits without even applying for citizenship? We already do.
We should allow foreign-born persons to vote in local elections? Ditto.
We should allow foreign-born persons to vote in Federal elections? No one is stopping them.
We should allow foreign-born persons to supplant American workers, in fact to train their replacements and just go away? Yes, we do that as well.
Please explain what you mean by nativism.
So what? You just post a declarative sentence without qualifier? We are not mind-readers. "Thoughts held in mind reproduce after their kind."
We are supposed to be leading conservative thought here, not giving up the fight on behalf of looking down on those needing to be led.
Rejecting Greenfield's broad and deep, eagle-eye overview displays a failure to comprehend the political complexity of this situation, and the need for profound, many-pronged response. Pray for it; our nation is on life-support.
There is no complexity at all. Tariffs are the tried and true solution to globalism eating the econmy alive. The sophistry here is BS.
Dumbest, most dergrading comment today. Here is my response - F off.
Your simplistic reductionism is what is bs here. Grow up.
If two or more nations recognise that there is such a thing, and the same thing, as 'international law', then 'international law' exists.
If one or more nations refuse to recognise that there is such a thing as 'international law', then 'international law' does not ipso facto cease to exist.
Enjoy your nosebleeds from so high up on your horse.
Read history. It’s not rocket surgery. Even you could understand it.
Our government behaves more and more like the single party authoritarian leftist ChiCom state. There is not much friction betaeen the USA nand China because the 2 governments share the same philosophy under the covers.
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