Globalism, Islamism, and Communism are rival totalitarian systems. But right now, they're allied against us with one purpose: to destroy Christian civilization and replace liberty with rule by force.
I have to disagree with Rod's take on "globalization." I see no good when we come to depend on getting certain necessities from anywhere other than within our own sovereign nation. Globalization results in our becoming dependent on obtaining necessities from countries that may be adversarial to the U.S.
President Trump has determined the best solution - to create equitable bilateral trade agreements with each nation such that imports and exports are treated with mutual benefit across the board. Part of determining that "benefit" is how specific imports affect our home industry for growing or manufacturing the same products.
"Free trade" is a globalist term. It has been shown to be frequently detrimental to the U.S. citizens & the national economy. What we want is "fair & balanced trade."
I did not suggest for a second that there are not certain national security-related industries (including things beyond submarine production, like pharmaceuticals) that must be maintained at home. I simply said that America is a trading nation and benefits greatly from that, but it is also a republic and should not have its citizens' choices subordinated to an unelected domestic or foreign elite.
Rod I agree you didnt suggest that. I noted you specifically differentiated between globalization and globalism in your comments in the video.
My issue is with those terms “globalization” and “free trade”(semantics) only because those terms have been conspicuously used, misused and abused by the RINOs and most conservative media who have opposed President Trump & MAGA from the outset.
The Mom View is much better then the regular view. A terrific segment by them and great interviews with Dr. Martin and Gabriela Blanco! Globalization and Globalism are indeed not the same thing. Globalization in other words economic interconnectedness, can be a good thing as long as it is structured properly. But Globalism is just plain flat out a bad idea. Globalism is the idea we’d have one world government for everybody. We’d be ruled by nameless faceless elites in a faraway capital. Call me crazy, but I don’t want to be ruled by someone like Klaus Schwab or an organization like WEF. I want to live in a sovereign country ruled by its own people! Communism and socialism are of course, evil to the core! Thus why hundreds of millions of people have died in the past century under Communist regimes. Gabriela Blanco sadly, experienced this first hand as a refugee from Cuba who came to the United States. Cuba before the rise of Castro was ruled by Fulgencio Batista a dictator who ruled by decree and there was wealth inequality between the rich and the poor. Pre-Castro Cuba wasn’t perfect and Batista was no angel. But pre-Castro Cuba was nonetheless, a prosperous first-world country with better living standards than much of Europe.
Spanish emigrants were lined up around the block to live there and Americans and westerns included many Hollywood movie stars went to Cuba for their vacations. Castro was very popular when he first came to power because the Cuban people thought he would bring democracy and freedom to the island nation. He talked about nice fluffy sounding things like getting like equality and fairness. But Castro would reveal himself to be a Communist and he and his cronies betrayed their comrades in the revolution and instituted an authoritarian system. This is why some of Castro’s fellow freedom fighters in the revolution went into the jungle and started a guerrilla war against his regime just they had with him against Batista. On a side note, where’s their Hollywood movie? Why do Castro, Che and their buddies get glorified by Tinseltown but not these real freedom fighters? In any case, Castro soon turned Cuba into a third world s***hole with some of the highest abortion, infant mortality and suicide rates on Earth. Let’s talk about Fidel Castro and Che Guevara for a minute. They are portrayed as romantic revolutionaries. Too many famous people to count be it Jimmy Carter, Ted Turner, Dan Rather, Jesse Jackson, Carlos Santana, you name have expressed admiration for Castro.
But what fools like them don’t understand is that Castro and Che’s romantic image was a product of Communist propaganda. In truth, Fidel Castro was brutal and ruthless dictator who mocked up more people in his first three years in power than Hitler and Stalin combined. Castro was a racist and a sexist. Most of the folks locked up in his gulags were blacks and mulattos. His prisons also held some of the longest suffering female political prisoners in history. Castro drove 90% of the country’s Jewish population to flee which by the way is greater percentage of the Jewish population than fled Imperial Russia under Tsar Nicholas II. He admired Adolf Hitler and patterned his infamous “History Will Absolve Me” speech after Hitler’s closing speech at the end of his trial for his actions in the Beer Hall Putsch in 1924. He was also a proud supporter of international terrorism. As to Ernesto “Che” Guevara, he also is a much whitewashed and idealized historical figure. But let’s pull back the curtain and examine the actual man. Che Guevara was basically a combination of Heinrich Himmler and Lavrentiy Beria. He was a sadistic killer who executed hundreds of people by firing squad. He lived like a dandy while pretending to be a man of the people. Che was a bigot who hated blacks, Mexicans and gay people. He dreamed of firing nuclear missiles at New York City during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. He was also by the way stank because he no regard for personal cleanliness, was a bad soldier and a coward who when cornered by the Bolivian Army immediately put up his hands and said “Don’t shoot! I’m Che! I’m worth more alive to you than dead!”
He sent many to their deaths, but didn’t have the courage to face death himself. Che Guevara was a hardcore Stalinist as was Castro by the way. Returning to Cuba, under Castro it became economic wreck with an awful healthcare system, chronic inefficiencies, low wages, and perpetual shortages. Not even impoverished Haitian migrants wanted to immigrate there. Some people even injected themselves with AIDS rather than live under his tyranny. Hundreds of thousands left Cuba on rafts for Miami over the years to find freedom and a better life in America. That is the world Gabriela and her parents fled. I really wish her well in her tour of American schools. Islamism is basically an extreme interpretation of Islam that calls for society to be governed strictly by a close reading of the Qu’ran. Most Muslims do NOT subscribe to Islamism. Nor are all Muslim countries ruled by Sharia law. But those Muslims who do are very dangerous and those Muslim countries that are are h***holes where women are second-class citizens and gay people are executed.
As a social liberal myself, I could never understand why anyone who calls themselves a liberal or a progressive would support Hamas. Hamas are a genocidal terrorist group. They treat women as chattel, slaughter civilians, murder Jews for existing, brutally rape Jewish women, spray playgrounds with bullets, behead foreign workers, blow up buses full of people, shoot dogs in the head for fun, execute gays and lesbians on the spot, practice racial segregation, enslave black Africans, kidnap civilians including children, babies, old people, Israeli Arabs, Holocaust survivors, teens, foreign nationals, and tourists, steal billions in humanitarian aid from Gazans, use civilians as human shields, and many other unspeakable crimes. Gays for Gaza in particular doesn’t make sense. Hamas would murder them all the minute they arrived in the strip and got off the plane. As a social liberal, I absolutely support a Palestinian state but NOT under Hamas or Fatah either for that matter. It would have to be a secular, liberal democracy living in peace with Israel. As a social liberal, I 100% support Israel! The nation state of the Jewish people is a place where Palestinians, Bedouins, black people, women, Christians, gay people, disabled people, immigrants, foreign workers, and many others all live together in peace, freedom, dignity, and safety with equal rights and opportunities. All three of these ideologies are basically the same thing. An ideology that states if everyone would just accept our way of doing things, it would become perfect and one person or group of people should rule for the “benefit” of all.
Spot on.
I have to disagree with Rod's take on "globalization." I see no good when we come to depend on getting certain necessities from anywhere other than within our own sovereign nation. Globalization results in our becoming dependent on obtaining necessities from countries that may be adversarial to the U.S.
President Trump has determined the best solution - to create equitable bilateral trade agreements with each nation such that imports and exports are treated with mutual benefit across the board. Part of determining that "benefit" is how specific imports affect our home industry for growing or manufacturing the same products.
"Free trade" is a globalist term. It has been shown to be frequently detrimental to the U.S. citizens & the national economy. What we want is "fair & balanced trade."
I did not suggest for a second that there are not certain national security-related industries (including things beyond submarine production, like pharmaceuticals) that must be maintained at home. I simply said that America is a trading nation and benefits greatly from that, but it is also a republic and should not have its citizens' choices subordinated to an unelected domestic or foreign elite.
Rod I agree you didnt suggest that. I noted you specifically differentiated between globalization and globalism in your comments in the video.
My issue is with those terms “globalization” and “free trade”(semantics) only because those terms have been conspicuously used, misused and abused by the RINOs and most conservative media who have opposed President Trump & MAGA from the outset.
The Mom View is much better then the regular view. A terrific segment by them and great interviews with Dr. Martin and Gabriela Blanco! Globalization and Globalism are indeed not the same thing. Globalization in other words economic interconnectedness, can be a good thing as long as it is structured properly. But Globalism is just plain flat out a bad idea. Globalism is the idea we’d have one world government for everybody. We’d be ruled by nameless faceless elites in a faraway capital. Call me crazy, but I don’t want to be ruled by someone like Klaus Schwab or an organization like WEF. I want to live in a sovereign country ruled by its own people! Communism and socialism are of course, evil to the core! Thus why hundreds of millions of people have died in the past century under Communist regimes. Gabriela Blanco sadly, experienced this first hand as a refugee from Cuba who came to the United States. Cuba before the rise of Castro was ruled by Fulgencio Batista a dictator who ruled by decree and there was wealth inequality between the rich and the poor. Pre-Castro Cuba wasn’t perfect and Batista was no angel. But pre-Castro Cuba was nonetheless, a prosperous first-world country with better living standards than much of Europe.
Spanish emigrants were lined up around the block to live there and Americans and westerns included many Hollywood movie stars went to Cuba for their vacations. Castro was very popular when he first came to power because the Cuban people thought he would bring democracy and freedom to the island nation. He talked about nice fluffy sounding things like getting like equality and fairness. But Castro would reveal himself to be a Communist and he and his cronies betrayed their comrades in the revolution and instituted an authoritarian system. This is why some of Castro’s fellow freedom fighters in the revolution went into the jungle and started a guerrilla war against his regime just they had with him against Batista. On a side note, where’s their Hollywood movie? Why do Castro, Che and their buddies get glorified by Tinseltown but not these real freedom fighters? In any case, Castro soon turned Cuba into a third world s***hole with some of the highest abortion, infant mortality and suicide rates on Earth. Let’s talk about Fidel Castro and Che Guevara for a minute. They are portrayed as romantic revolutionaries. Too many famous people to count be it Jimmy Carter, Ted Turner, Dan Rather, Jesse Jackson, Carlos Santana, you name have expressed admiration for Castro.
But what fools like them don’t understand is that Castro and Che’s romantic image was a product of Communist propaganda. In truth, Fidel Castro was brutal and ruthless dictator who mocked up more people in his first three years in power than Hitler and Stalin combined. Castro was a racist and a sexist. Most of the folks locked up in his gulags were blacks and mulattos. His prisons also held some of the longest suffering female political prisoners in history. Castro drove 90% of the country’s Jewish population to flee which by the way is greater percentage of the Jewish population than fled Imperial Russia under Tsar Nicholas II. He admired Adolf Hitler and patterned his infamous “History Will Absolve Me” speech after Hitler’s closing speech at the end of his trial for his actions in the Beer Hall Putsch in 1924. He was also a proud supporter of international terrorism. As to Ernesto “Che” Guevara, he also is a much whitewashed and idealized historical figure. But let’s pull back the curtain and examine the actual man. Che Guevara was basically a combination of Heinrich Himmler and Lavrentiy Beria. He was a sadistic killer who executed hundreds of people by firing squad. He lived like a dandy while pretending to be a man of the people. Che was a bigot who hated blacks, Mexicans and gay people. He dreamed of firing nuclear missiles at New York City during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. He was also by the way stank because he no regard for personal cleanliness, was a bad soldier and a coward who when cornered by the Bolivian Army immediately put up his hands and said “Don’t shoot! I’m Che! I’m worth more alive to you than dead!”
He sent many to their deaths, but didn’t have the courage to face death himself. Che Guevara was a hardcore Stalinist as was Castro by the way. Returning to Cuba, under Castro it became economic wreck with an awful healthcare system, chronic inefficiencies, low wages, and perpetual shortages. Not even impoverished Haitian migrants wanted to immigrate there. Some people even injected themselves with AIDS rather than live under his tyranny. Hundreds of thousands left Cuba on rafts for Miami over the years to find freedom and a better life in America. That is the world Gabriela and her parents fled. I really wish her well in her tour of American schools. Islamism is basically an extreme interpretation of Islam that calls for society to be governed strictly by a close reading of the Qu’ran. Most Muslims do NOT subscribe to Islamism. Nor are all Muslim countries ruled by Sharia law. But those Muslims who do are very dangerous and those Muslim countries that are are h***holes where women are second-class citizens and gay people are executed.
As a social liberal myself, I could never understand why anyone who calls themselves a liberal or a progressive would support Hamas. Hamas are a genocidal terrorist group. They treat women as chattel, slaughter civilians, murder Jews for existing, brutally rape Jewish women, spray playgrounds with bullets, behead foreign workers, blow up buses full of people, shoot dogs in the head for fun, execute gays and lesbians on the spot, practice racial segregation, enslave black Africans, kidnap civilians including children, babies, old people, Israeli Arabs, Holocaust survivors, teens, foreign nationals, and tourists, steal billions in humanitarian aid from Gazans, use civilians as human shields, and many other unspeakable crimes. Gays for Gaza in particular doesn’t make sense. Hamas would murder them all the minute they arrived in the strip and got off the plane. As a social liberal, I absolutely support a Palestinian state but NOT under Hamas or Fatah either for that matter. It would have to be a secular, liberal democracy living in peace with Israel. As a social liberal, I 100% support Israel! The nation state of the Jewish people is a place where Palestinians, Bedouins, black people, women, Christians, gay people, disabled people, immigrants, foreign workers, and many others all live together in peace, freedom, dignity, and safety with equal rights and opportunities. All three of these ideologies are basically the same thing. An ideology that states if everyone would just accept our way of doing things, it would become perfect and one person or group of people should rule for the “benefit” of all.
I feel that there is not ENOUGH enthusiasm for America 250, so here are some titles about the founding era I wanted to share with everyone:
* Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
* 1776 by David McCullough
* The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
* American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington by H.W. Brands
* John Adams by David McCullough
* Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
* The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff
* Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
* Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty by John B. Boles
* John Hancock: First to Sign, First to Invest in America’s Independence by Willard Sterne Randall
* Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the World by Eric Mextas
* Standing in Their Own Light: African American Patriots in the Revolution by Judith L. Buskirk
* Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for American Independence by Carol Berkin
* Paul Revere’s Ride by David Hackett Fisher
* Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution by Joseph T. Glatthaar
* Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose