The globalization freaks will never it seems give up their freaking.
In house globalization freaks reside aplenty in MSM, especially places like the Washington Post, the LA and NY Times and the bloated, rather gassy, if we don't say, Financial Times, not to mention many fake news websites.
Since the golden goose turned wan and pale and more than a bit sickly they continue to come up with excuses like ice cream in an old-time sundae topped with reasons why just a few minor adjustments will get Cinderella back to the Big Ball.
It ain't going to happen. And it shouldn't unless you want to continue the present and continue to be sidestepped and left out.These are chosen clueless zealots. Make no mistake. Look soon for anyone who questions their religion, much like climate change, to be labeled a fake news member. Their religion--a it's a longstanding common one-- is lining their pockets not yours with money.
The world is facing the “first lost decade since the 1860s”, said
Bank of England governor Mark Carney this week. Arguably good for
soundbite of the day, but the buck stops there. The only way that buck
could have kept rolling would have been for Carney to take a critical
look at himself and his employer(s), but there was none of that.
The Canadian import governor has no doubts about anything he’s done,
or if he does he shows none. Instead he puts the blame for all that’s
gone awry, on some -minor- elements of what he think globalization
means, not with the phenomenon itself, or his enduring support for, and
belief in, it. The problem with that is it’s indeed belief only; he
can’t prove an inch of what he says.
Globalization is an act of faith inside a politico-economic belief
system, and all it needs according to Carney and many others in his
‘church’ is a little tweaking. That globalization itself could be the
driving force behind Brexit, Trump and the defeat of Italian PM Renzi
does not enter into the faith’s ‘thought’ system.
Neither does the possibility that globalization is what it is, in and
of itself, a process that in the end cannot be tweaked. That
globalization is simply yet another form of centralization that follows
the same rules and laws all other forms do, where power and wealth
always, of necessity, wind up in the hands of a few, through pretty
basic centrifugal forces.
People like Carney will insist that globalization spurs growth, right
up to the moment where they’re either voted out or fired. And they’ll
probably keep on insisting until their dying days. But why are we in
that “first lost decade since the 1860s” then? Is that really only
because ‘we’ failed to “redistribute
some of the benefits of trade”, something that can allegedly be easily rectified by enabling workers to ‘acquire new skills’?
Where is the proof for that? And why have economies stagnated in the
middle of the entire process of globalization? Is that solely because
‘some of’ the benefits were not distributed well enough? If that is so,
and wealth distribution is the only problem with globalization, at what
point do we redistribute ourselves into the realm of communism? Where’s
the dividing line? It all feels mighty vague and unsatisfactory, and not
a little goal-seeked.
Like a large part of the Brexit voters in Britain, millions of
Italians have been on the losing side of globalism’s ‘benefits
distribution’. And this weekend they found an outlet for their
frustration about it. Like Brexiteers voted
against Cameron and Osborne much more than they voted
for
anything in specific, and Trump won because Americans are fed up with
the Obama/Clinton/GOP model, Italians voted against PM Renzi and his
idea to take power away from parliament and give it to him.
Judging from poll numbers, they also seem to have gained confidence
in Beppe Grillo’s, and the Five Star Movement’s, ability to do something
real in politics. It has taken a while, and that makes sense because
the movement doesn’t fit the model of politics as they’ve known it all
their lives.
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