Reject the slavery of globalised free trade
The current tariff panic is only exposing the huge section of the American right which are actually free market liberals as I have been pointing out. Focused on materialism and money as their driving factors. Unable to detach themselves from cheap goods and excessive consumerism, and unable to withstand short term suffering for long term prosperity for their future generations.
Panic button on. For the service and information industry. They might not be the only game in town anymore. How do you think you were planning on the West and American winning? By continuing more of the same and making your enemies stronger and stronger, while making yourself increasingly dependent on others?
A people hooked up on unlimited materialism are panicking because they have to go through a bit of suffering to fix their country in the long run. This is what hyper individualism and materialism does to your brain. In service of convenience shackled to the system.
Another example. What is even this? Is this a case of not wanting Asian markets to suffer over wanting America to succeed? How is this even a pro American take? Compete and improve your own products. How is this even a debate that oh Japan makes better cars so we shouldn’t even try to make better and sell to the world? They make better because the West stop trying as hard as them to compete.
Then there is this video put up by Elon Musk of all people:
That peace is always fake and temporary. You should advocate for the USA to be fully self reliant and be able to make a god damn pencil without the need for the whole world to contribute to it. There are graphite deposits in Alaska, there are people growing guayule which can be increased for rubber in America, and Naugatuck Valley in Connecticut is known as Brass Valley. How are people not engaging with this topic with a sense of national interest and security?
But the main clincher came when Mr Wu got a bit pissy:
And replied with this:
They see it as separate issues because they are that deep in the cult of liberalism and have tied their existence to it, that they can’t see that it's downstream to it. The same ideology that led him down the path of his trans reality" is downstream from the ideology of everyone is equal, all cultures are the same, we can fix everything with free trade, we should help everyone everywhere apart from our own. Hyper individualism, only after their own pleasure and benefit. Happiness derived from the mind of one uncaring of others. The liberal rot.
You are not in the wrong body, you are in the wrong ideology. And if that ideology is allowing your internal suffering to support its claims then you should investigate its other claims as well and not take it as gospel.
And there’s more:
Yes. Americans should definitely go back to Democrats because the 9865th item on their Amazon list that they definitely don't need to buy but have been convinced by globalists that they need it to feel validated will be more expensive than usual. Really?
Go back to Democrats, so they can once again keep making China, India, and other countries rich by absorbing your manufacturing, to a point where you completely become their slave. Seriously, all they have is creating short term panic for their own political game. The same playbook from covid. All they want is power and their liberal globalism to maintain a stronghold. God forbid if any of them have to suffer short term for long term gains.
I don’t understand how people thought winning would look like for the West and America? Business as usual? Let’s keep making the competitor states richer by letting them not only have manufacturing for American products, but making the companies hostage to their nations, draining the manufacturing and production expertise from the West, and taking away immense jobs, benefiting their own economy and giving purpose to their own people albeit via slave labour from Western standards. And still somehow expect America to win? No, of course this needs to happen. Short term pains for long term gains. Ride it out, you will be better for it.
Free trade comes with free travel and mass migration. And it comes with globalisation, that is what makes free trade possible. So, if you were crying for globalisation to end then be prepared to fight for its alternative, building national resilience and fair trade.
There are many on the American political right, who are just greedy free market liberals. They have made money their God, and they panic if they are kept away from earning their gold coins. Materialism is their driving goal, and their pursuit of happiness is very much rooted to this world alone. This is why we get both ends of the extreme right and left rot from them these days filtering into the rest of the world, because their hyper excessive consumerism has caused this mentality. Beware of it and actively reject it. You do not need 50 shirts, you are okay with a handful. You are okay with not having takeaways every single day/week, and you definitely should not be maximising short term pleasure by rejecting the divine from your life. Over a million American women on OnlyFans, and millions of men just making money by grifting any means necessary - chasing the goals for a wrong God being sold on this path by false prophets. Wake up.
I agree with this: