I fucking hate you doomer anti-American turd-worldist retards and I apologize for picking on you essentially at random, inetsone, but you were the most recent.
Bro. You said something smart and you're totes correct. After the Depression, the US realized if the world sent us their trinkets for paper funny money, we'd essentially be getting paid tribute like kings.
The US did not deindustrialize after the Depression, nor did it deindustrialize after WW2, we were net exporters until after the rest of the world recovered its industry after foolishly destroying it in WW2, the war of Total American Supremacy. America's industry scaled down through the 70s-80s when Japanese, German, and rest-of-world manufacturing caught up and managerial and quality control processes in them became more performant than ours. They made better cars and cheaper trinkets. Prior to that, the US held a massive amount of hard currency which it leveraged for an ambitious policy of open-ended aggressive containment in any corner of the world that looked like it was about to go full retard and become communist. Not the wisest policy, but hey, it did more or less win the Cold War. The process of offshoring shit to China was pushed ahead somewhat foolishly in the 90s, but the cost advantages were stark and no one hated the cheap shit for the past 30 years besides the Americans who couldn't make better shit worth the premium of their wages.
It's a pity, but the tide is turning and a more sound and coherent industrial policy is something America can achieve once again.
Unfortunately though, that situation is coming to an end because like I said, over time all the top elite in every country got in on the system I mentioned and consolidated as a class.
Prove it. Prove there is such a thing as a globalist class. Really. Because I see lots and lots and lots of countries with national elites squabbling over how best to please America these days, and how to devour each other with little ambition to devour America. Europe can't agree on defense policy or industrial policy or even how to lend money to each other without beggaring their neighbors and themselves. Russia is not nothing, but they are a middle power that is declining and burning its foundations to the ground on a senseless war for what amounts to a big buckwheat farm to repudiate Nazi militias and the expansion of NATO, which expanded right to their borders the second they invaded Hoholistan, putting Petersburg in fucking artillery range. The Russo-Ukrainian War was an own goal for them, a world-historic fuckup like Operation Barbarossa (though less catastrophic), even after they inevitably win and all the hohols are dead and buried and fertilizing next year's kasha crop. China is fucked demographically and the collapse of Evergrande and the real-estate bubble and the deflationary spiral caused by their relentless supply-side subsidies and loose credit for manufacturing is not going to produce a utopia, or even a middle-income nation outside of the tier 1 megacities.
Let's grant what you claim though, let's say there's a globalist class, and it's not a Marxian nightmare made up by uneducated, illiterate, midwit poltards--where, when, and how did this consolidation happen? Let's think about the how and where--education and professional standardization is a good bet, professional services and consulting and elite schools. There are like 3 elite schools outside of the US. The elites go to Harvard and they work at McKinsey. The consolidation happened in Harvard. It happened on Wall Street. It happened in Silicon Valley, in top-tier business schools like Booth and Kellogg. It happened at Georgetown. It happened in DC. The UN is still in New York, the capital of the world.
At best global elites
Americanized, they did not 'globalize,' and the idea that the super elite have class consciousness is a Marxist fantasy. They would devour each other for money, power, and advantage, and we see it every day. Fucking Thailand and Cambodia's elite can't agree on how to get along. Slavs hate each other. Euros hate each other. The point of the EU is to become more like America. You see a hollowing out of a nation. I see a great expansion that makes it impossible to tell inside from outside.
They don't need the US anymore. That's the irony of Donny. You think he's saving America, but he's really isolating and regionalizing it for the globalist class.
Need the US? Where will they go? They'll fuck off on their yachts, surely, the Mediterranean is a fine place to be, but what about their money, and the giant money factories called corporations and stock markets where they make their money? Global trade is still denominated generally in dollars. Why? Because you can't buy shit with yuan but Chinese junk. You sure as shit can't buy shit with a ruble, and your Euro is just a dollar in a better-tailored suit. You can buy whatever currency you'd like with dollars and get a better deal. That's how the banks will ultimately settle it. The dollar was the currency for the preponderance of global trade flows by the 1920s, without us having conclusively findommed the world and taken all the gold for ourselves. The dollar remains the key reserve currency to this day. Turd world funny money doesn't have a fucking chance at supplanting the dollar unless a calamity or a miracle happens.
The US did not succeed at becoming the monopole of global finance by luck or a quirk of history it achieved it through strategy and outproducing everyone and then fleecing every rich nation as they destroyed themselves over an Austrian painter's retarded, methed-up hate boner for slavs and polish jews.
The US is still, in spite of it not being China, an industrialized country that produces lots of durable goods and strategic assets such as planes, cars, and rocket engines. We have oil refineries, energy independence, and strategic independence for most critical minerals and industrial processes. It is the place where IP for most major industrial verticals are located, along with the bulk of talent. High tech industry wants to be here if it's not owned by the CPC. We hollowed out Europe, not the other way around.
America is such a magnetic, wealthy place that it is a massive fucking problem that everyone on earth wants to move here. Our legal system in spite of being slow and often retarded and at times patently unfair is considerably better than its alternatives, particularly for corporate dispute resolution. Our bureaucracy sucks, but they all suck, and it is unlike most generally uncorrupt, and its biggest problem is that our bureaucrats are educated and obsessed with ideological and academic fashion, which is an issue. Our legislators are often less corrupt than you think they are, they are generally in the business of delivering the goods for their hometown and their supporters, which is good civics if you think broadly, consider what the budget process is, and aren't retarded. People like Nancy Pelosi are rare and the wealth she accumulated through indirect corruption isn't particularly remarkable or even hateful. You think a head of a national legislature is poor? If they made it that far they'd be improbably stupid to not have turned power into generational wealth via insider trading. She wasn't getting bribed like an African, she was making money like an American. There's a lot of difference both moral and intellectual there.
The US has no real competitors strategically to replace its institutions of global import. The SCO is not a substitute for NATO. It's not even an adequate security forum for turd worlders. Russia is encircled, and the final step was their own doing. Helsinki is a ferry-ride away from Petersburg. China is encircled and floundering economically.
If the 'globalist class' which, again, who the fuck are they, really? What businesses do they own? Where are their core interests? What is their money? How is the US not a major market for them, to the point where they must play by rules set by our government and work to further our strategic interests? Where will they bank if not the US? Europe? Asia? China? Russia? Brazil? India? South Africa? No one in any of those other places wants to bank in those places, and it is beyond retarded to assume the Chinks, the Slavoids, the Macacos, the Jeets, or the Nigs are more trustworthy than Goldman Sachs. We've got the best Jews and they work tirelessly to keep the line going up. That line going up is a fucking miracle and it is your retirement and your ticket to a passive income for you and your family if you are living right and making good decisions.
America rules, the rest of the world sucks massive dick. If you think the niggers here are bad, wait till you see what the rest of the world has to deal with. If God exists he obviously picked America to win, we win at fucking everything with our incompetent, retarded government and our mendacious, disloyal capitalists and our stupid, fat, drunk, drug-addled mystery meat citizenry. You are dead fucking wrong if you don't love all of it, our ugly cities, our shitty art, our crumbling infrastructure and our nightmare inducing, cultureless expanses on the Great Plains. I have seen a lot of the world, and none of it holds up after the tourist visa runs out and reality sets in. America is the protagonist of world history and every other country is more evil, more poor, and much more retarded when you actually objectively compare them. Whatever shit we got up to pales in comparison to the wars of religion in Europe, or the countless genocides and catastrophes that afflict god's least favorite people, which is everyone else.
