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government employees-who get all the protectionist barriers
“on average, the OECD found that Americans pay $635.85 on cell phone service, compared to $131.44 per year in the Netherlands or $137.94 per year in Sweden.”
1) The entire Post War Global Order was created in order to contain the Soviet Union. Trade was used as a way to bribe other nations for US security gains...with the exception of NAFTA.
2) Soviet Union has been gone since 1993.
3) Coincidentally, NAFTA came about right after 1993.
4) No more Cold War, no more need for America to maintain all those concessions or even the entire post-war system itself. Only 12% of US GDP was involved in foreign trade at most. Down to 8% now that oil imports are vanishing.
What is amazing is not what is finally happening, but how long it took America to start on this path of geostrategic repositioning.
The solution is to stop emphasizing diversity and instead emphasize unity as Americans
Sure @marcus I'm very willing to listen.
The problem is too much diversity
Diversity, and diversity of thought, diversity of opinions are not the same as out of control identity politics. Actually it's unity and a lack of diversity of thought that has caused problems on the left.
white leaning. Leaving aside the job growth rate , which followed the Obama era growth, let us see how are his short term policies.
Coal: Support Coal which is the fuel of the past over the fuel of future such as solar. In short term US will save jobs but in the long rum other countries will develop better technology. Most (86%) of the coal employees are white and 85% are white
1) The entire Post War Global Order was created in order to contain the Soviet Union. Trade was used as a way to bribe other nations for US security gains...with the exception of NAFTA.
Nationalism is terrible and in my opinion has the potential to lead to terrible outcomes beyond what we can imagine.
Trumps policies are very populist and short term and are white leaning.
Trump Tries to Destroy the West.
mell saysThe West which has sold out and turned on its own people for a globalist leftist cultural marxist agenda? Good.
But the average current tariff of the United States, Britain, Germany and France is identical, according to the World Bank: 1.6 percent. Japan’s is 1.4 percent, and Canada’s is 0.8 percent. Yes, every country has a few objectionable tariffs, but they’re small — and the United States is not a victim here.
marcus saysTrump Tries to Destroy the West.
Trump is a communist? I knew there was something different about him.
Macron pretty much admitted the other day that France has lost control over immigration and that the local leaders in the problem areas need to "help themselves" now.
Trump and the other supposed "right wing" movements of other countries are literally saying they want to protect western liberalism.
The rabid anti liberal republican base voted into the white house a man who was literally saying he wanted to protect western liberalism
The autonomy of the individual, aka classic western liberalism, is the opposite of the progressive values of today's left.c
The half formed ideology that never became more than a theoretical navel gazing excersize from 200 years ago?
Classic western liberalism has been dead as a doornail since the civil war.Yup, the D and R oligopolists have taken us in a fascist direction. Good thing someone, at least, is reminding us to embrace our diminishing personal freedoms rather than globalism.
Tim Aurora sayswhite leaning. Leaving aside the job growth rate , which followed the Obama era growth, let us see how are his short term policies.
Coal: Support Coal which is the fuel of the past over the fuel of future such as solar. In short term US will save jobs but in the long rum other countries will develop better technology. Most (86%) of the coal employees are white and 85% are white
You Leftists try so very hard to make populism into racism. It’s just not true and you’ve become the racists you rail against. Whether you’re actively discriminating against whites and Asians or treating black people like irresponsible children, you’re more racist than egalitarian.
bob2356 saysThe half formed ideology that never became more than a theoretical navel gazing excersize from 200 years ago?
You mean the ideology upon which our individual sovereignty is based? Yes, it's a cultural distinction worth fighting for.
Your disdain for classic liberalism isn't surprising, considering your leftist tribal affiliation. Thanks for proving my point
A secret plan to break up the West would also have the United States looking for new allies to replace the discarded ones. The most obvious would be Russia, the biggest rival within Europe to Germany, France and Britain.
A whopping 100,000 asylum seekers in a country of 67 million is hardly overrun by illegals. Especially sine they aren't illegal, they are perfectly legally seeking asylum. If they don't get asylum, only 16,000 were granted last year, they get deported, the same as the rest of Europe. They don't hang around home depot parking looking for work off the books for 30 years.
France has lost control of it's immigrant ghettos where they have kept their north african cheap labour imports of the 1950's/60/s pretty much imprisoned. Racism against North Africans in France makes 1950's southern states look like champions for blacks. No one outside the ghettos will rent to them. They can't get work. They can't get education. Many can't get citizenship after living in France for generations. Then the French complain the immigrants don't assimilate. The local leaders in the ghettos have to "help themselves" because the French authorities won't bother to.
The French created their own immigrant problem over the last 60 years that has nothing to do with the current asylum seekers. They deserve it too.
Yeah the hypocrisy is dense here. The extreme left literally says they want the power structures of the west to fall. Meanwhile, Trump and the other supposed "right wing" movements of other countries are literally saying they want to protect western liberalism.
Yet Marcus and other supposed moderate lefties say Trump and the worldwide anti-globalist backlash is a threat to western culture? Just amazing to watch double speak in action.
"The West became great not because of paperwork and regulations but because people were allowed to chase their dreams and pursue their destinies," Trump contended. "Americans, Poles, and the nations of Europe value individual freedom and sovereignty.
OK, explain this one for me: if "Russia is the biggest rival within Europe to Germany, France and Britain" (I agree with this, btw), why the fuck Germany bending over backwards in order to accomodate Putinfuck's desire to have another pipeline for his gas exports? They push for the project to which US, Poland and host of other European countries strongly object. Donald doesn't tell them to do it - quite contrary, he urged them to scrap the project. Unlike some lip service to possible return of Russiafucks into G8 (I oppose this, btw) which is just words, giving the fucks another pipeline to increase their exports is a concrete action which directly favors Russia and increases Putin's leverage there. So, who's being Putin's bitch and trying to destroy Western unity again?
marcus saysA secret plan to break up the West would also have the United States looking for new allies to replace the discarded ones. The most obvious would be Russia, the biggest rival within Europe to Germany, France and Britain.
OK, explain this one for me: if "Russia is the biggest rival within Europe to Germany, France and Britain" (I agree with this, btw), why the fuck Germany bending over backwards in order to accomodate Putinfuck's desire to have another pipeline for his gas exports? They push for the project to which US, Poland and host of other European countries strongly object. Donald doesn't tell them to do it - quite contrary, he urged them to scrap the project. Unlike some lip service to possible return of Russiafucks into G8 (I oppose this, btw) which is just words, giving the fucks another pipeline to increase their exports is a concrete action which directly favors Russia and increases Put...
NATO is obsolete.
mell saysNATO is obsolete.
NATO (US Military, really) is the only thing which keeps Eurofucks from being turned into total Putin's bitches. They are fucking dwarfs militarily speaking. Yes, even Germany. The rest are even bigger jokes. And please spare me the lecture on "benevolent Russia, wanting to live in ethernal peace with their neighbors" - their neighbors who don't enjoy NATO protection know the price of this illusion all too well.
Many are illegal in the context that many countries now put the Maghreb countries into the list of safe countries, so there is no right to apply in Europe
I disagree on that. The racist French is merely a myth. They have given many economically motivated (and few politically motivated) a great life and are being rewarded with mayhem in the banlieus. If you come into a foreign country you have to earn your accolades.
How are past mistakes, if any, reason for them to deserve violence and mayhem? Fact is they are the ones giving shelter, money and food and they have every right to close their borders and deport those that don't behave.
Sorry, strictly middle of the road moderate, 25 year dues paying former republican at that.
The problem is the right has moved so far right that they can't even see the middle any more. everything left of fascism is leftist tribal affiliation.
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