[Peace-discuss] Fighting Trump

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Caitlin Johnstone: "You Can’t Fight Trump Without Understanding The Anti-Globalization Movement” <http://www.newslogue.com/debate/332 <http://www.newslogue.com/debate/332>>

Globalization is of course an aspect of neoliberalism, the elite economic program that has dominated US and world politics for 40 years.

"All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind." --Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations 

From the article: "I doubt any of the hyperventilating Democrats who are breathlessly gasping that Trump is the next Adolf Hitler have taken a moment to reflect on the fact that Hitler was not exactly the posterboy for non-interventionism. Trump has been advocating non-interventionism so extensively that some critics have been accusing him of isolationism, which, if you haven’t figured it out yet, is kind of the exact opposite of trying to conquer the world and make everyone look like Ryan Gosling. Non-interventionism happens to be an essential part of both the progressive and anti-globalist movements; if you support America’s policy of military interventionism and world-policing, you are not progressive, you are a war hawk like Clinton and Bush…

"Of course, you could just insist [that Trump's supporters are] racist and sexist and stupid and you’re better than all of them and be done with it. I’m sure that’s what a lot of liberals are content with doing. They’re enjoying the drama and the sense of self-righteousness and nothing will unstick them from their new favorite hobby of Trump bashing…"

—CGE


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