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This completely ignores globalization and the fact it was geopolitics that took the jobs away.

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• willcipriano 3y ago
  The unions were instrumental in getting the people pushing globalism elected.
  • birdyrooster 3y ago
    Hardly. Labor Unions were against immigration and globalization and demanded tariffs to protect US industries. Chavez was prolific in his anti-immigration arguments. It was the capital holders who pushed globalization, outsourcing and mass immigration.
  • bugglebeetle 3y ago
    The two flavors of US political parties were both right wing, neoliberal globalists. Clinton allying with Republicans to pass NAFTA is clear evidence of this. Only recently have they also both postured away from this stance, largely in response to the new Cold War with China.
    • dragonwriter 3y ago
      > The two flavors of US political parties were both right wing, neoliberal globalists. There were significant (but not always dominant) factions of that type in each party during the period of ideologically incoherent parties in the period of the long post-Depression realignment, and overlapping the very end of that period there was the brief neoliberal consensus period from the late 1980s into the 1990s.