Globalism and democracy
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 6:56 pm
While the regressed left has its ego up their a** and self-righteously and hysterically keep pounding Trump too lazy to think about anything else, they missed the fact that Trump identified globalism as a threat to nation states and their democratic process. As was the core reason for the Brexit vote the fact that the EU erodes national democracy, sovereignty and control over your own borders.
(control over your own borders itself is neutral: it just means that it is always open to debate and change of policy on who and how much people are allowed in, can work for how long where, what social benefits apply to whom etc. The point is that this is and should not be decided upon by a non-elected bureaucratic supra-national autocracy)
I don't know since when caring about democracy and keeping an eye on what threatens it should be equalled with primitive nationalism: those regressed ones who can't see their own hysteria and forgetting the real issues like democracy that should matter to everyone... are becoming the useful idiots of the international oligarchy, of corporate crony capitalism, the emerging of a new class and monopoly of super rich and powerful people that without democratic controls and transparency start to rule the world. This class will be only one step away of behaving like the Big Hijo de Putin of the world.
There is an argument that globalization also has positive effects on wealth creation in formerly poor countries and force those countries to become more democratic as well. I am less optimistic about the positive effects on democracy since every corrupt politician can easily be bribed. Not because globalization itself is bad but because it generates bigger and bigger monopolies that no longer are controlled by any bottum-up democratic process. It is natural for a big monopoly to not like democratic interferences that eat away power and create competition in making the rules for the game.
Pros and cons of globalization are nicely summarized here:
Has Globalization spread Democracy around the world?
(control over your own borders itself is neutral: it just means that it is always open to debate and change of policy on who and how much people are allowed in, can work for how long where, what social benefits apply to whom etc. The point is that this is and should not be decided upon by a non-elected bureaucratic supra-national autocracy)
I don't know since when caring about democracy and keeping an eye on what threatens it should be equalled with primitive nationalism: those regressed ones who can't see their own hysteria and forgetting the real issues like democracy that should matter to everyone... are becoming the useful idiots of the international oligarchy, of corporate crony capitalism, the emerging of a new class and monopoly of super rich and powerful people that without democratic controls and transparency start to rule the world. This class will be only one step away of behaving like the Big Hijo de Putin of the world.
There is an argument that globalization also has positive effects on wealth creation in formerly poor countries and force those countries to become more democratic as well. I am less optimistic about the positive effects on democracy since every corrupt politician can easily be bribed. Not because globalization itself is bad but because it generates bigger and bigger monopolies that no longer are controlled by any bottum-up democratic process. It is natural for a big monopoly to not like democratic interferences that eat away power and create competition in making the rules for the game.
Pros and cons of globalization are nicely summarized here:
Has Globalization spread Democracy around the world?