A socialist won't stop globalisation but it will help workers get a better deal.
Not that globalisation is a bad thing. Scooby complains about importing of cheap labour such as IT from India, but if they didn't those workers would still exist. The difference being that all the IT would be done in India and not America and America would be worse off as it loses out on taxes.
Protectionism never works. Say Drumpf starts to giving an unfair competitive edge to American products being sold in America, then all the other countries in the world do the same against American goods. Then America finds that they it is only selling to itself and is worse off.
As has been pointed out many times on this thread so far and constantly ignored by the Drumpf supporters, if you stop immigrants then the cost of living goes up because companies need to spend more on their wages.
Thing is, America is a fading empire and nothing will change that. Empires are built on energy which allow the exploitation of resources. This is what society is built on. Britain was the largest empire in history at its peak. This happened because of the exploitation of steam power and copious coal reserves. America had its oil and the internal combustion engine. Now all the other countries are catching up. Drumpf can say that he will make America great again but unless he develops something akin to fusion power or cheap asteroid mining then it won't happen.
Empires come to an end in a variety of ways. Britain was lucky in that it gave away most of its colonies but we're still cursed with the empire mentality when we should accept that we are a small country. Most empires fall. Some remain as religions and exert global control that way (e.g. Catholicism and Wahhabism)
Not that globalisation is a bad thing. Scooby complains about importing of cheap labour such as IT from India, but if they didn't those workers would still exist. The difference being that all the IT would be done in India and not America and America would be worse off as it loses out on taxes.
Protectionism never works. Say Drumpf starts to giving an unfair competitive edge to American products being sold in America, then all the other countries in the world do the same against American goods. Then America finds that they it is only selling to itself and is worse off.
As has been pointed out many times on this thread so far and constantly ignored by the Drumpf supporters, if you stop immigrants then the cost of living goes up because companies need to spend more on their wages.
Thing is, America is a fading empire and nothing will change that. Empires are built on energy which allow the exploitation of resources. This is what society is built on. Britain was the largest empire in history at its peak. This happened because of the exploitation of steam power and copious coal reserves. America had its oil and the internal combustion engine. Now all the other countries are catching up. Drumpf can say that he will make America great again but unless he develops something akin to fusion power or cheap asteroid mining then it won't happen.
Empires come to an end in a variety of ways. Britain was lucky in that it gave away most of its colonies but we're still cursed with the empire mentality when we should accept that we are a small country. Most empires fall. Some remain as religions and exert global control that way (e.g. Catholicism and Wahhabism)