The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in Asia.
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A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.
Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.
For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.
Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II.
Especially in the West, people want to understand Asia on a deeper level because it's become the engine of the world economy, like it or not.
The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.
We have a myth of the classless society. You won't hear an American politician apart from Bernie Sanders talk about the working class. We are all middle class, apparently.
Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.
The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.
The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.