The election this year has revealed a conflict, one that is playing out all over the world. It started with Brexit, it continued with our last election, and will play out further with the French and German elections. It is a battle royal between the Nationalists of various stripes and Globalists of various stripes as well. This make "Make America Great Again" is the same slogan used by the Nazi's "Make Germany Great Again". They are similar themes playing again. Germany during the aftermath of the Great Depression was lying flat on it's back. Hitler came along and put people to work with massive infrastructure spending and rearming Germany. Trump wants to to the same with infrastructure and says we need to build up our hollowed out military. We spend more on defensive than the next 10 nations combined, and we are hollowed out? We are like the gun guy who has a 100 guns or more, one would do it. We have enough fire power to blowup the world several times over, once would do it.
In contrast to the Nationalists Globalists want to tear down the barriers between people borders, trade, cultural ties. A Philosophy that is in direct conflict with Nationalism. What is bringing this all to a head is the rapid technological advancements that are tearing apart the very fabric of most Western Industrial Nations. Globalization has been a blessing to many backward poor countries, and a curse to more developed ones, since it has a tendency to level the playing field. It is a lot easier to sell to people improvement in their status, most of us don't want to lower our standard of living however. America for so long has been the richest country on Earth, for us to be less, is unthinkable. If we want to stay on top we need to change and many of us especially the Nationalists don't want to change they want to go back to the 50's like Trump has pushed. I'm a child of the 50's as well, but there is one lesson I have learned in life, you can never go back, you have to keep moving forward.
