On globalism and America first

 9-30-2018  Globalism means nothing more and nothing less than figuring out how the world really hangs together.*  In that sense Benjamin Franklin – with his famous quote advising the 13 rebellious colonies to “hang together” – was the modern world’s first globalist.  https://www.theglobalist.com/globalism-patriotism-donald-trump-united-states/

*how world hangs together:  intentionally not plainly defined by the writer of the above, but it means via monopoly trade in the hands of a few under worldwide central banking and their approved agents politically, economically and across the board.  So Benjamin Franklin is their leader??  Did they dump Skull and Bones and the Illuminati then??   No, that hasn't happened--can you say "Austin Goolsbee"?   -r., mt. shasta

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12-5-20  The America First approach, as I understand it, holds that involvement in multilateral trading groups harms many domestic concerns: ”... a growing sense that increased economic integration has caused extensive job losses and contributed to rising economic inequality has challenged a long-standing consensus that liberalized trade is socially beneficial.”  Danoff, et al., International Law, 2020.  America First seems to prefer bilateral economic trading relationships, except for the United States-Mexico-Canada context.  These bilateral relationships would seem not to involve long-term commitments or to shape the structure, law and culture of international systems.

  There may well be a conflict between success in multilateral trading relationships with lowered tariffs and domestic employment and wages, but is this self-abnegation regarding international structures healthy for our global security in the long run?  Under America First, are we retreating to the Western Hemisphere, or even to “Fortress America?”… It may be that some democratic socialism is a necessary ingredient to our domestic free-market capitalism.  We cannot let inevitable unemployment in an age of automation undermine an effective, forward international participation for a stable global order.  (O, that will just be such a snap, sure, buddy.  This is  actually the decor version of the globalist.com statement.  -r)  

  President-elect Biden seems to be a globalist:  “We make up 25% ... of the economy of the world.  We need to be aligned with the other democracies, another 25% or more so that we can set the rules of the road instead of having China and others dictate outcomes because they are the only other game in town.”  https://www.lenconnect.com/opinion/20201205/globalism-or-rsquoamerica-firstrsquo-ndash-bidenrsquos-view

  (O, setting the rules multinationally wouldn’t be and hasn't been for any empire a snap AT ALL; we cannot so position ourselves that other nations’ decision-making will simply echo ours.  After we are able to demonstrate the worth of liberty in our continent, other nations may possibly see the value of liberty as foremost, as keystone of the arch.  It is now our experiment, so it is called “America first,” but the notion of Franklin’s that we hang together has a peculiar meaning; it is not a saying centered on finance/trade monopoly and that worldliness, no, Franklin’s concept is distinct from that big empire syndrome.  Unity is not monopoly nor monopoly control, it is something quite quite distinct, even opposite from that.  This is why there is a fight going on these days.  “Their plan is to work in stealth until the day when they raise the world curtain,”  said one sage.  That is so of the globalists.    -r)