I am reminded of my favorite news story.
How do we communicate with our elite class of leaders? We can learn from the elders of the "Greatest Generation."
In the summer of 1989, Mr. Rostenkowski, then a congressman from Illinois and the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was besieged by a crowd of 50 senior citizens in Chicago . . . the protesters -- shouting "coward," "recall" and "impeach" -- forced him to sprint through a gas station to his car. . .[car? it sure looked like a government limo to me]
The protesters were angry about [a new Medicare law] . . .That law was soon repealed. But the television images of Mr. Rostenkowski under assault struck fear in the hearts of politicians . . .
"Politicians were traumatized by the Rostenkowski episode," said Henry J. Aaron, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
"Assault" is too strong of word but the seniors made sure Rostenkowski knew that they did not come there to praise him.
It doesn't take much googling ("third way" globalization) to find "progressive" groups like New Democrats On Line, Progressive Policy Institute, etc. who see "free" trade and globalization as the way of "achieving widely shared economic prosperity." Progressives are of course worried about the "unchecked power of multinational companies and about who is running the global economy."
A true Third Way approach to globalization combines support for global integration with "rules and tools." Progressives are running the global economy.
Besides President Bush another hero of the "free" traders, President Bill Clinton, in Davos, Switzerland, said: "...open markets and rules-based trade are the best engine we know of to lift living standards, reduce environmental destruction and build shared prosperity."
President Clinton went on to provide the "free" traders their major arguments. To wit, "We benefit from [imports]. Imports stretch family budgets; they promote the well-being of working families, by making their dollars go further; they bring new technology and ideas; they, by opening markets, dampen inflation and spur innovation."
The quotes are from "A Third Way on Trade and Globalization," by Jenny Bates and Greg Principato and is on http://www.ppionline.org/
The WTO system, etc. = President Clinton's, et al. Third Way "rules-based trade."
So like Clinton transferring military technology everywhere "over there" the "free" traders loot America's technology to transfer to "developing nations" for cash thus sharing economic prosperity.
It's (not so) funny that we "protectionists" are denounced for wanting "socialist government interference" here in the U.S. by the brilliant "free" traders while they (blindly?) help establish socialism worldwide! Idiots.
The Third Way means a Marxist revolution from the top down and combines Lenin's New Economic Plan (NEP) with the revolution by inviting the capitalists to join their fun. Useful idiots!
Like the Soviet Union of the 1920s the "progressive" ideologues will one day come to fear the Nepmen, seize their property, execute them, and declare the World to be a Workers' Paradise.
IMO.