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We need a snow globe with you visage on a pedestal holding something of your choice - maybe a writing instrument and of course Uncle MAGA somewhere in there, maybe selling T-shirts at the base of the monument.

Very good piece here Ivana!

People need to understand that globalization was starting as early as before WW1 and was to the benefit of the same players back then, as you cited today. This is not new and as you rightly observed will not be fixed in a decade or two - especially because the cancerous tumors keep spawning new baby cells that infect the body - baby soros anyone??

Of course, all things being equal, there is nothing wrong with having a hand knit wool sweater form Ireland on the shelf with one form the U.S., in either country. Like wise for any product or service out there, so long as there is no "welfare" given to one or the other. The consumer will decide which will sell and which will not.

However, when it comes to manufacturing (makin' stuff) that is a problem and off shoring was and still is a big problem. As you said Ivana, people in these once great manufacturing towns - who's biggest industry is now a Super-Walmart - have long memories and it's why the working class can easily identify with President Trump, a Billionaire, over Scranton, Lunchbox, Corn-puff eating, drooler Joe - the all american kid.

One of the commenters asked, "So what do you see as the first step the American worker should be taking to create real action to rebuild this country?"

Answer: Get off your asses, get deeply involved in your local and federal government and fight to keep the globalist, America hating, marxist, communists and deep staters (one in the same) out of any seats of power. This all happened because conservative Americans sat back and wallowed in the Comfort, Convenience and Entertainment they were generationally sold by the regimes (globalists). They tossed their responsibilities aside and allowed themselves to be beaten into poverty and apathy by the cudgels of tolerance and acceptance - Many have "for the greater good" stamped in their foreheads, from when the leftists punched them in the brain - Rick James style.

You crawl up the poop chute of your governments, gut them and then install populists who will put you, your freedom, your country and your culture first, before all else. You do not let idiot bartenders and muslim terrorist supporters into your governments. No perverts, no pedophiles and no money launderers.

But wait, that means you will actually have to do work, study, sacrifice movies, netflix, sports, weekends and maybe even a few mani-pedis or tailgate expenditures.

And there's where 90% of the angry working class - don't show up - and why we had the last 4 years and the train wreck of a country since Clinton (yes that includes Trump's term as 45, because he didn't know what he didn't know).

76 million had better use this next 3+ years to step up, do the work and take their places on the line. This is not Trump's, JD's, Elon's, or anyone else in the Executive Cabinet's fight - it is ours and we've run from it for decades.

Either show up and shoulder the responsibility of citizenship or STFU and get out of the way. There is no middle choice now.

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"Globalism isn’t a party. It’s an economic virus that’s infected both sides of the aisle—and it’s still spreading, despite all the political shake-ups."

Yup. Clinton signed NAFTA into law in 1993, the year after the 1992 election. Interestingly, that election featured an eccentric third-party candidate who, uniquely amongst the candidates, warned of NAFTA's long-term dangers.

(Where have you gone, Mr. Perot? A nation turns its bankrupt eyes to you.)

Since then, while the Ds and the Rs have been happy to duke it out over any number of controversial but relatively small-fry social issues, pursuing free trade agreements has been a bipartisan effort. Ladies and gents, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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