Hollywood, you deserve this. This is your damn fault!

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thranx said:

Chris Hu said:

 

If Trump starts a trade war which is highly possible not only will he screw over the rust belt more it will also hurt the rest of the country.

Starts a trade war? Thats the problem right there. The trade war has been on going since there has been trade. Having free trade agreement with countries that dont have similar labor laws and protections just undermines the labor laws and protections here. There is a trade war going on, and we are getting killed by Mexico and China. The sooner we realize this the sooner we can fix it. Yes things will cost more, they should cost more. Higher cost is the only way to support living wages and good working conditions. I never understood how the left could argue for higher wages here, and safer working conditions, but than also want free trade with countries that dont care about the same things. Its self defeating, and its a road to low wages and unsafe working conditions.

 

The left doesn't actually argue for that. The left is ridiculously protectionist. It's the right that wants the free trade because all the corporations and capitalists want to be able to be able to produce at lowest possible cost. Why do you think it's corporations run mostly by Republican supporters that moved manufacturing off shore, under the corporate mandate of maximising profits and maximising shareholder value? And why do you think Obama would have had to rely on Republican support (and had enough of it) to get the TPP ratified? If Hillary had won I reckon Obama would have got TPP through in the lame duck with Republican support. But since Trump won, there's no way Republicans would vote through TPP against the policy of their newly elected president, even though a lot of Republicans support TPP (now in secret of course).