Ding Dong the Wicked Witch is DEAD!!!

[Mirimir]

On 11/09/2016 05:11 AM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2016 8:29 AM, "John Newman" <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:
>>
>> Fuck the USA =)
> 
> John, please, more compassion.  "Fu¢k the USA" is too much, dear.  :(
> 
> Unhappily, they are already fu¢ked.  The rest of the world too.  It's the
> end of the globalization era and the world will change a lot.  Not for a
> better stage, probably.  :(
> 
> This corrupt guy really will create new jobs.  He wants workers building
> "The Great Wall of USA", more cops, more army, uff...  Good luck, USA!  :(

Current top comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12907201 is
insightful, I think. Albeit defensive ;) Trump is basically an
isolationist, I think.

| It is possible to view this as an isolated event or a trend.
| Coming on the heels of BREXIT this is a trend.
|
| The attempts at building an interconnected globalised world are
| beginning to fail. A bunch of elites decided to create their own
| trans-national utopia unchecked by borders and dismissed all
| criticism as racist or bigoted. The globalisation project has
| been rejected by a majority of the population. Whether it is for
| economic reasons or just plain bigotry is something for the
| sociologists to study and not something I can pontificate on.
|
| Also people seem to care a LOT about immigration and preserving
| their culture. Instead of patronising these people it's time we
| tried to understand their concerns and try to assuage them.
|
| There is no genuine leftist alternative. It's a choice between
| center-right "left" that's sold out to the establishment and the
| far right. Economists need to stop acting like priests in the
| medieval ages who justified the existing order . The rural voter
| who lost his job doesn't care about the theory of comparitive
| advantage.
|
| If this trend holds this will soon take hold in France and other
| European nations. This is a return to the world of the 1920s. Not
| gloom and doom but a much more unstable global order with every
| country for itself. Not what we need when we face planet scale
| threats like global warming. Get out of your bubble.