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In reply to the discussion: Does the White House Really Think People Are That Stupid? [View all]Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)The utter failure of globalization/free-trade has been burgeoning for 20+ years and yet the pundits, talking heads in the business media ( read: "the media" ) all trot out the same trite canards in support of it as if either:
- We were all suddenly born yesterday
- Hoping to coalesce enough critical mass of 1-percenters and their minions, the fifty or so wonks among the general public that still think free trade is good ( about a half dozen of them are regular posters on DU ) and "by the numbers" macro economists who believe it makes sense...or at least on paper....as in "I'm standing up to my waist in ice water in a 140 degree room; statistically I feel just fine"
Other posters are right though: It aint about what we think. The appeals for support from the hoi-polloi are those from a technocrat trying to make a done-deal sound like it was reached through mutual consensus.