The Coronavirus

[Bob Butler 54]

(08-23-2020, 11:03 AM)CH86 Wrote: A final note here: The DNC is clueless especially given Biden and the DNC claiming we need "character, compassion and decency" nope, most xers, millennials and Gen-Zer's consider those to be fighting words. We despise boomer tyranny and attempts by boomers ever since Xers were teenagers (Before we millennials and Gen-zers were even born) to turn us into globalist boy scouts. WE HATE GLOBALISM AND WE HATE GLOBALIST TYRANNY, UN TYRANNY AND HUMAN RIGHTS TYRANNY.

I almost have to treat this paragraph in four parts.  Might as well.

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The election has turned into a referendum on allowing a president without respect for character, compassion, decency, science and democracy and one who does.  Any other issues are almost secondary.  That most issues are addressed if you actually listen to what they are saying is almost a bonus.  If you don’t recognize that, you have not got a feel for this election.

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At a worldwide level, there was a division of wealth.  Much of it was a result of colonialism.  The mother countries attempted to maintain a monopoly on manufacturing while holding the colonies as captive sources of raw materials and captive markets.  The result was a large division of wealth.  The US may not have officially held colonies, but their relationship was similar.  War was still a racket.

At the end of World War II the US announced they would forgive Lend Lease debits if colonial powers would renounce the ability to close ports.  This practically killed colonialism.  It did not take a lot of time for the death of colonialism to become official in the west.  It did not end the division of wealth.  It just left the US to live through a golden time when their intact manufacturing reigned.

Eventually globalism became a big deal.  The elites could make more profit doing manufacturing without labor unions, benefits, environmental regulations and expensive labor.  They donated enough campaign finance money to  take a lot of jobs abroad.  This helped the elites make profits, the former colonies to pick up manufacturing jobs, at the cost of mucking up the former mother country’s and the US’s working class.

In hindsight, this bribing of the politicians by the elites at the expense of the people who voted for them seems inevitable.  The elites and politicians were going to find a way to profit.  Make the division of wealth ever bigger.  It didn’t matter if they had the government’s blessing or no, but I don’t blame it on any particular party.  Yes, the Republicans are generally the more tainted by an elitist loyalty.  In this case, the Democrats were not far behind.

But one effect was to lessen the international division of wealth.  The manufacturing jobs were spread more evenly.  However, the elites benefitted disproportionally.

One of the few pluses of COVID is pointing out the need to build essential equipment such as ventilators and PPE at home.  We are likely to see some jobs coming back.

But while the US distinctly lost due to globalism, I can’t cry about it.  The jobs got better distributed.  However these jobs if the elites get their way will go to the cheapest workers, with with the least benefits, with the weakest unions, causing the most pollution.  The US wants some of those jobs back.  They might set tariffs so the elites profit less from exploiting the third world workers.  This might change.

But the Republicans are as much at fault as the Democrats in the sending of jobs abroad.

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Human rights tyranny?  I know that some racist conservatives have trouble treating minorities and poor well.  Human rights tyranny seems like an excuse for their hateful selfish behavior, pretty much an oxymoron.  I count equality and human rights as two of three legs of the arrow of progress.  To the extent that some conservatives want supremacy and cruelty to prevail, they are fighting for the wrong thing and doomed to see their mistaken values rejected and disappear.  I can make prophesies.  I can point out how prior 4Ts have gone.  At this point, though, it seems more effective to let reality hit you over the head.  You are committed to your immoral and evil values, and will get your comeuppance in time.

I am reminded of the wizard in The Last Unicorn, warning the villain that he had let his doom walk in the front door.  It was not the wizard's doing.  He merely foretold.  I feel much the same way.

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UN tyranny?  As I have not noticed it, I won’t comment on your paranoia.