Posted on 09/04/2016 6:35:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
Um, I’m not quite yet sixty; I took American history, and I very much learned about the past.
I'm sure you did - I graduated from high school in 1968, and I learned about the past, also.
What I didn't learn - what almost nobody learns, is that the past is also the future.
What’s Past is Prolog?
The past is a glimpse of the future, those that ignore history repeat it.
Yea, I learned that. We’ve all learned that. Well, those of us who’ve been paying attention.
Mark
“The problem is that all these ‘trade’ agreements are anything but equal. “
Exactly. As soon as a country attains economy of scale in an industry, as we did in 1900 in just about every industry in existence, that country wants “free trade” to export and expand.
But now, as China and Japan used tariffs to gain advantage, we’ve lost ours.
“The countries that we have these agreements with aren’t looking to maximize utility, and so they set their own tariffs and taxes, which ultimately makes the US worse off than if we had no trade agreement at all.”
Yes, the US has been targeted.
“We can’t change what THEY do, but we can change what WE do. Putting up tariffs can snag some of that utility back from the nations taking advantage of us... and a willingness to fight back economically may well convince them to lower their own trade barriers, or at least not raise them too high.”
Exactly. We need to control our borders, people and goods.
The Left (i.e the dems) and their propaganda organs are this country’s number one enemy - far worse than the islamists.
They are this nation’s enemy within... the worst kind.
From Cicero:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
The concept of Sovereign Right; the right of any
Nation-State; exercised through the Parliamentary representatives of its people; to include or exclude anyone within its borders; was codified and confirmed by the Treaty of Westphalia, which ended the 30 years War in 1648. It stands as the definitive definer of the concept of national sovereignty.
The left is totally against the concept of nations and national borders - has been since the time of Lenin.
From the International Socialist Review:
“Socialists are internationalists. Whereas nationalists believe that the world is divided primarily into different nationalities, socialists consider social class to be the primary divide. For socialists, class struggle—not national identity—is the motor of history.”
The Muslims are also against the concept of nations and national borders. They are also internationalists in that they want islam to rule the whole world. Since Islam is both a religion and a political system, once islam takes over say two adjoining nations, there is no reason for a border between those two nations since values (islam as religion) and laws (political islam) are the same.
A nation is simply a container of shared values and common laws. If two adjoining nations have the identical values and laws, then there are not two nations, but just one.
Sound analysis and on the mark.
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