r/centerleftpolitics • u/TheGreenBehren Paul Volcker • 18d ago
đŹ Discussion đŹ Classical liberalism was globalism 1.0. In 1972, neo-liberalism became globalism 2.0. In both 2016 and 2020 elections, America voted against globalism 2.0. What is globalism 3.0?
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u/TheGreenBehren Paul Volcker 18d ago edited 18d ago
u/HonestPerson92 I am responding here because I am banned from r/JoeBiden despite being a ghost writer for the 2020 campaign.
The 2016 and 2020 elections were both referendums on neo-liberal globalization. Despite his rhetoric, it was under the Clinton administration that China joined the WTO and we outsourced our jobs. Perhaps you could blame Greenspan, Podesta, Carvilleâit doesnât matter whose fault it is. We balanced the budget but sold the soul of America to the devil in order to do it. It was a mirage.
The 2024 election was a referendum on woke. It had nothing to with economics. They may have responded to phone calls with cheap one-liners, but the deep root cause of that is the sentiment of economic disenfranchisement. Woke created this economic disenfranchisement.
And since the death of black Jesus in 2020, according to Bloomberg, 96% of jobs went to POC, mostly women. Thatâs insane. My original âgay classicâ friends were kicked out of the gay community by the LGBTQASL+/-AB2 gang. We canât even talk about sports, STEM research or the military without being called a bigot.
So guess what? People voted against that.
But what is woke? Well, itâs a bastardized perversion of neo-liberalism. Itâs an abstraction that denies all empirical evidence. Itâs a conspiracy theory where externalities are ignored. Itâs an ideology that is failed.
You cannot externalize IQ or hormones as a reason why there are unequal outcomes. Equal opportunity DOES NOT produce equal outcomes IQ is inherited from the parents; and yes, so is money and zip codes and SAT tutors, but so is IQ. So is trauma.
The beauty of Bidenomics, as it was originally designed, was it created the âopportunity economyâ and not the outcome economy. Despite pandering and accepting the votes of woke peopleâwe werenât fighting for the woke idiots. They donât want an opportunity or dignity of work, they want a quota in college that forces universities to dismantle testing so they can get a job that pays higher than McDonalds.
But why do they have to go to college in the first place? Because we outsourced all the low IQ jobs, which is what they are if weâre being intellectually honest, and told people with the low IQ to just shift gears and go be a doctor and lawyer. But they failed. So we lowered the standards and now you need a PhD to be a barista.
So Joe Biden AND Trump and many in Washington saw the writing on the walls.
Neo-liberal trickle down voodoo Reaganomics and offshoring was a failure.
This failure caused a great disenfranchisement (not replacement) of people through the offshoring (white working class) and subprime crisis (black working class) and radicalized a generation. So
In order to reverse this trend of radicalized people, we have to empathize with their root causes, not gaslight them and demonize them.
They are angry about the fact that a house cost $420k and the American dream is dead. $1000 in the bank in 1971 turned into $400 in just a few years. POOF! Inflation is taxation without representationâaka theft.
So the solution has already been provided. Itâs bipartisan.
- Trump created a discussion about not being taken advantage of by this globalized order. Whether it was Chinese proxy warfare through the cartels or it was CCP dumping of slave labor products on the market, he focused on the foreign policy.
- Biden created a discussion about lowering the federal debt. Stopping the racketeering of the federal budget by big pharma, big real estate and big agriculture. Biden used his political capital to build the factories as a domestic policy. The Sullivan foreign policy was a post-rationalization of this domestic policy agenda.
- Trump again in 2024 picked up the torch, and having brought in center-left democrats like RFK Jr, Elon Musk and Tulsi Gabbard, is genuinely continuing this bipartisan effort. I genuinely believe that. He will take credit for Bidenâs workâGood! I hope he does so the jobs stay, so America can heal.
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u/MeatPiston 18d ago
Horse shit.
People love the benefits of globalism. They love the robust economy and they love lower prices and they love not having to work menial labor jobs. They love high standards of living and they love entertainment and culture and good international relations.
Unfortunately the public is also dumb as a post when it comes to anything beyond first order relationships so you do have to lie to them.
And they love being lied to. They beg for it screaming and pleading. Nobody checks facts. The truth is personal and completely subjective.
The election of Trump is damning proof of the above.
Lie, but build a good economy to keeping the country strong. But most importantly lie.
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u/TheGreenBehren Paul Volcker 18d ago edited 18d ago
people love the benefits of globalism
Which globalism? 1.0 or 2.0 or 2.1 or 2.2? Itâs not a black and white world, thereâs different strains of this flower.
robust economy
Tf lmao a house cost $420k and college degrees are worthless. There is nothing robust about needing to work for 40 years to pay for college only to not be able to afford a house.
This is completely out of touch with reality. Like god tier trolling and gaslighting. Wow.
good international relations
Yes we won the Cold War. Yes conflicts went down. But at what cost? Freedom isnât free.
And the peace wasnât permanent. Look around you. All the spies just infiltrated the west after the Soviet Union fell. They didnât give upâthey switched gears. And now we are heading towards WW3.
not having to work menial labor jobs
I actually spent my summers of architecture school working in construction. I drove 90 a minute commute and woke up at 5am to break my back and come home dirty. Yeah, my parents paid for gas and housing, but the work itself was fun. I loved it. Best summer of my life.
A family friend is currently helping an asylum seeker find work. They offered them a higher wage job close to their children but they rejected it for a lower paying construction job. Why? Because there is this thing called âdignityâ that comes with work. Do you know what that is? To build something?
Thatâs what the Build Back Better agenda is all bout. Reclaiming the dignity of so-called âmenialâ labor jobs. Fuck you for that implication. You just called half the country âmenialâ and immigrants âmenialâ because they are different than you. Itâs fucking sick.
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u/manitobot 18d ago
This was a referendum on inflation, and industrial policy increases inflation.