If anything is obvious now it it that the democrat party, the bureaucratic state, and quite a number of republicans are concerned with one thing and one thing only - perpetuating their hold on power. They will ally themselves with anyone, with any threat to our country, if they see a political advantage in it.
I do not believe the USA has even begun to reap the consequences of this corruption. Frankly I can't even think of a historical precedent for it.
@skeeter Globalism on a personal level is entirely new. The world has had globalist kings and queens ever since mankind discovered there IS a globe,and it is populated with people and wealth.
Given all they had back then was sailing ships and no maps to navigate by at that time,they did a remarkable job of colonizing what little world they knew about.
Along come the "Me,me,ME,DAMMIT!" generation of western politicians and industrialists who would pimp out their daughters and granddaughters for pocket change,and there is China,a police state since the dawn of time,full of slave labor and lusting for expansion so they can feed their hungry masses to avoid a possible revolution. China takes advantage of the situation by selling their free labor to western markets so cheap that the western businesses that don't WANT to deal with China are facing two choices,go bankrupt or shut their US factories and send them to China so their tooling can be operated by Chinese slave labor,and then shipped to the US at no cost to China on Chinese ships operated by Chinese slave labor.
This has created a system where there is no possible way American manufacturers can compete with the Chinese because American and other western manufacturers don't have slave labor or free shipping.
Consider this for an example. There was recently an add that offered brand new 4x4 riding mowers for sale that had 22 HP Briggs and Stratton engines,really big flotation tires,a "tub body" so the operator could sit inside a housing and not be hit by branches or other debris,and a brush deflector up front to keep brushes from hitting the operator in the face.
The price?
$98.99,with free shipping from China via AIR through DLS,which USED to be an American shipping company,and maybe still is.
You can't even rebuild a Briggs and Stratton 22 HP engine for that kind of money,if you do all the work yourself.
Somebody PLEASE splain to this simple fool WTF Congress isn't hitting China with MASSIVE tarrifs in order to level the field and keep Americans working,and WHY this isn't treason.
BTW,while you are at it,PLEASE splain why the freaking US Unions aren't screaming bloody murder!
Although I suspect that even this poor old fool knows the answer,and it is "Mitch the Bitch" with his Chinese wife,and Nancy Pelosi,whose husband represents,or used to represent China in the US.
Along with accomplices in the RNC,the DNC,and the labor unions,of course.