globalist: noun
the attitude or policy of placing the interests of the entire world above those of individual nations.
That sounds very innocuous. Of course, who wouldn't want to place the interests of the world over the those of individual nations. And of course, the ideal rarely encompasses the reality. We need to find out who makes policy, what their actions relay in terms of actual goals, and who will actually benefit.
When I was a young man, I would have said, "How great it is that the world will become a small global village, where everyone can benefit." How naive I was.
First, let me illustrate that there is a pyramid of influence. At the very top, where the capstone resides is the smallest number of people. From the top, this small group of individuals is able to influence and steer the greater majority of the world's population at the bottom. This small group at the top is able to run the middle section through various non-governmental bodies, and corporations and even governments of countries. In this way, the peoples at the bottom can only look up to the next rung of power and place the blame on them, voting them out, putting them in jail, or putting them out of business, while the whole time, the very top is able to sit safely out of view, and continue to influence the majority.
The idea of globalism is flawed in that is not run, nor is it answerable to the will of the people at the bottom. As it is run by the top, who themselves are members of royalty (for example) and what we could say is the global elite, it views the majority at the bottom as unthinking, uneducated, unelightened cattle to be herded and dictated to.
Globalism is not the same as international trade, for international trade has been around for millenia. Nations around the world have always traded goods, from silk and spice, to corn and rice for centuries. Globalism, in the form of NAFTA, GATT, and the World Trade Organization has operated superficially as a way to bring fair trade to the people of the world while in practice has always been a vehicle for free trade, or the ability of a small group at the top to manipulate markets and the prices of goods at the expense and oft times the detriment of the people at the bottom.
By dictating policy from the top down, globalism seeks to centralize power. The centralization of power is a bad thing. It wants to seat the authority of far away countries into the hands men and women who are not citizens of the various serf states, nor are impacted by the actions taken on the serf states. An example of this would be the European Union. The seat of power of the European Union is in Brussels. Just as the seat of British power was in London, the various modern day serf states have realized that a far off seat of power is inadequate at dictating policy that effects the daily lives of someone living in possibly a different culture and/or a different climate.
On top of this is the inherent arrogance in even trying to dictate to someone far away.
Another problem with globalism is that in trying to make collectives with different countries as members, you undermine the sovereignty of the local governments of those countries. If you join the European Union, and your country had been able to give driving permits to those who were 18, as a hypothetical example, you may have to change your local laws to accept only drivers who were 21. If your country had allowed arms to it's people to keep the threat of tyranny away, and to arm the potential victims of crimes, under the authority of the European Union, you would be denied those rights. Even more basic, is that if your country was founded with it's own set of innate rights, you would forfeit those for those written by some people's in a far off land who don't know, nor care what rights your country had developed.
In the homogenization of globalism, your culture and then you're identity become null and void. This is all well and good for the individual who has the money to fly to and move to any country they like, but again, for the majority of humanity, cultural identity is the identity found in your own backyard. It is not something to "out grow," nor something that is primitive, or something to be shunned. It is only the globalist, who cannot understand that the world is not a big, "all-you-can-eat" buffett for the rich elite, who thinks in this way. It is most assuredly not the citizen of Mexico, who's culture is not the same as a Canadian or an American, who thinks in this way. Culture is important.
The culture of a land is exhibited in it's art, it's religion, it's food, and it's language.
Is it reality for the majority of people on the planet, the majority who don't have computers, nor the internet, to believe that the world is a global neighborhood? Of course not. Because the majority of people still have to operate locally. They still have to buy and sell from their local merchants.
What has globalism done? Many, if not all of the ail's to the American's "quadriple dip recession" can be blamed on the promises of the global carpet-bagger. Where did the job's go? They went overseas to cheaper, more unregulated labor pools. Where did the manufacturing go? To economic opponents such as China, India, and Brazil. Why is our dollar not backed up by a strong gross domestic product? See above. Why is the service sector the biggest and fastest growing economic sector in America? Because there are no more manufacturing jobs because they've been shipped overseas.
Not only has globalism opened up the veins to the American economy to be bled out into the catch pots of unrestricted labor pools, but it also has allowed American businesses to leave our country and set up their corporate headquarters in third world countries that allow bigger tax breaks.
What does globalism intend to do? After bleeding us dry, and leaving us to work more hours for less wages, it then intends on putting global taxes on us for having been the "bad guys" to the environment for so many years. Who were the "bad guys"? The biggest corporations. What have the "bad guys" done? Moved all their operations to "up-and-coming" nations who are and will be exempt from any global taxes. I am speaking about environmental sanctions masked in "good intentions" in the form of Carbon Taxes.
Globalism will try to use unfair trade deals and back door cronism to collapse our economy and make the United States rely more and more on international loans made by the same vested interests who have allowed our government to let our manufacturing move off-shore. Once we are in a state of receivership to the off-shore global monetary institutions to pay our national debt, we can have the last bits of countries resources plundered by who? Again, the same global elites who engineered the collapse. A good example of this would be Greece. Greece has sold some of it's most beautiful islands to billionaires who are seated in the International Monetary Fund who gave them a loan years ago they knew they would not be able to pay back.
What good has globalism done? Hmmm... I suppose that if one wanted to visit Thailand, and eat a wholesomely nutritous McDonald's hamburger, one wouldn't have to travel outside of Thailand. It has brought some of the cheapest and most biologically toxic goods from the annals of China, right to our own Wal-Mart (the same Wal-Mart that has put your local clothier out of business). Globalism has made the rich richer, and the poor poorer, and at best, made the rich richer and spread the bread crumbs from rich's table from countries like the United States to other countries like Mexico.
Who benefits from globalism? The globalist. And if you believe that the better the food on the Master's table, the better the scraps thrown to the Slave's, then so be it. I for one am against it. Be wary those who exclaim the benefits of signing on to global pacts and treaties and disavow those who would sign you on without your vote or your voice. They will most assuredly do so for their own benefit, and not for yours.
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