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Is Globalization in direct conflict with the U.S Founding Father's warning to be wary of foreign entanglements?

Posted - January 2, 2017

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  • I would say yes.    For better or worse they were pretty much isolationists and the basis of the nation was to expel outside influence and control.  To be independent.
    Globalization is the antithesis of all that.
      January 2, 2017 10:31 AM MST
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    Forced globalization, yes. Moreover, it runs counter to national /  individual sovereignty.

    Although, a voluntary global 'body' rooted in individualist principles wouldn't necessarily pose a direct conflict. jmo

    It also serves us well to make a clear distinction between voluntary / compulsory global interaction through trade and / or forced global governance when we discuss "globalization." The framers were open supporters of trade with all nations as a form of peaceful, albeit global interaction. That was their resolve to hostility between nations.

    Forced submission to a global government was never part of the equation.
      January 2, 2017 11:49 AM MST
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  • And what do we make of Trumps new-found closeness with the Russians then? Letting them interfere and hack, defending them cos he knows they helped him win? America the nation that's supposed to set an example to others about democracy has a leader and a fair few of those who voted for him who defend this...

    I wouldn't worry too much tho about outside influence.. the longer Trumpet is in place the more the world leaders will shun him.. and thus America too.. The man's a boar, an oafish boar who has no etiquette and who offends other nations at the drop of a hat.. already he has snubbed and irked the Germans, peed off the Chinese and has behaved in an unseemly way re the Brits which totally turns us off.. Teresa May is waiting for an *invite* cos Brits are polite but Trump in his boarish ill-mannered way said let me know when you are next here.. lol so she's just going to sit and wait forever...  see he has no idea how to behave with other countries.
      January 2, 2017 12:49 PM MST
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