No, not at all. Being ignorant of a particular subject doesn't make someone a "dummie". I'm ignorant on lots of subjects, but I'm certainly not "dumb". Ignorant just means "I haven't learned that yet."
I have to say that before reading Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics, even though I had passed two semesters of Economics in college, I believe I was still pretty ignorant on the subject. I'm deeply grateful for Dr. Sowell's writing which taught me much.
Those who treat free trade with fear and loathing are either ignorant of the laws of economics, or they deliberately disregard them. The saddest situation is those who are ignorant on a particular subject, but too proud to admit it. That keeps them from learning more.
We are being screwed daily by these trade agreements, and most of us know it. It’s unfair trade, not free trade, but you seem to miss that point. Maybe it’s you that is the dummy, while acting like an intellectual elitist.
How are you being "screwed" daily by individuals freely buying and selling with the trade partner of their own choosing? How does my having the option of buying Chinese-made goods "screw" you?
The chicom machine is not an individual. It is an implacable enemy of our survival.
with the trade partner of their own choosing?
Choosing? Choosing? Show us the Wal-Mart with US-Only products. There is no choice. There is a defacto monopoly.
And your love of markets seems to be rather oblivious to their actual absence. To wit: if the Chicom currency, instead of being subsidized and manipulated from Beijing, was forced to be "on the market" [at whose feet certain phoney FReepers worship at]...then let's see what happens.
In reality, The consumer doesn't get the choice. The Chicoms and their Quisling accomplices have made the choice for American consumers...by coopting the entire "market". The whole thing is governmentally manipulated from China.