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That was their stated goal from the beginning. The opposite of globalization is isolation, and isolationist policies always have the same result: the isolated country withers and dies while the rest of the world moves on without them. Despite this, the majority of voters in the US wanted this for some reason, or didn't care enough to vote in order to prevent it. The current administration is doing exactly what they were voted into office to do, for better or worse (hint: it's worse).
I know that nobody will care about it because it isn't exciting, but I feel like people should be looking at Franco/Falangist Spain as what we are facing moreso than Nazi Germany. Not to say we don't or won't have elements of it, but unchallenged, long-term isolationism taking root looks a lot more like where we're headed. Partially due to it's receding as an entity, we don't really look at that regime and era very much. We are a big country with a lot of resources, but we're gonna be in rough shape if we keep at this rate. Nazi Germany got cut off by being too militarily ambitious with the wrong neighbors. Spain just skipped that.
Reminder: the United States supplied Franco with all the oil he could have wanted via TEXACO. Fascism was always there.
I know quite a few people with the “both sides are the same” argument. Makes me so fucking angry to even think about them now.
Because "why are we always being dragged into everyone else's problems" and "why are we sending money and aid to other countries when our own people need looking after"?
What those chucklefucks don't understand is that US intervention and global involvement is the reason the US was the global super power it was. You don't get to be world police keepers and act as oversight by being isolationist. They also don't understand that their own people were never going to be looked after with the funding going to them instead of foreign nations... That money finds other pockets.
Americans have always been isolationist at heart, its in their DNA as a nation of people who have all run away from somewhere else.
The problem is that they now want isolation and all the wealth that comes with globalisation, and that ain't going to work.
That vote was fixed. You can’t trust elections anymore.