Sure, if only we could return to a magical time when everything was great. By a coincidence, it looks exactly like a time when I was young and taken care of and ignorant of the real problems outside my view.
Good point.Of course the racism/xenophobia part of the issue is troublesome, not just to liberals but to all who think that freedom should lack a color bar.
" … I thought liberals were supposed to support the working class."I’m not a liberal or a conservative (trying to separate them makes no business sense) and I deal with realities not political ideologies! We cannot travel back in time to undo globalization.The explanation of globalization I was taught in college decades ago involved exporting units of labor at the current US wages so that the other country could — ala Henry Ford — afford our goods, but the corporations decided, why bother … better margins right away; no waiting.Now one by one the countries we outsourced to are experiencing wage inflation — going to automation — and the advantage of outsourcing for cheap labor is disappearing.
King_Shark almost 8 years ago
Even if the British vote for Brexit, it won’t be allowed to happen. Do you imagine the EU is run democratically or something?
superposition almost 8 years ago
Brexit and Trump supporters have one thing in common … they want to travel back in time to undo globalization and make things “great” again,
Kip W almost 8 years ago
Sure, if only we could return to a magical time when everything was great. By a coincidence, it looks exactly like a time when I was young and taken care of and ignorant of the real problems outside my view.
eremite almost 8 years ago
Good point.Of course the racism/xenophobia part of the issue is troublesome, not just to liberals but to all who think that freedom should lack a color bar.
superposition almost 8 years ago
" … I thought liberals were supposed to support the working class."I’m not a liberal or a conservative (trying to separate them makes no business sense) and I deal with realities not political ideologies! We cannot travel back in time to undo globalization.The explanation of globalization I was taught in college decades ago involved exporting units of labor at the current US wages so that the other country could — ala Henry Ford — afford our goods, but the corporations decided, why bother … better margins right away; no waiting.Now one by one the countries we outsourced to are experiencing wage inflation — going to automation — and the advantage of outsourcing for cheap labor is disappearing.