The Upside of Nationalism

When did in these times become a newsletter for mr Sirota?

Posted by headed on Apr 4, 2008 at 6:46 AM

Back in the 1990s when NAFTA was proposed, Ross Perot was the only candidate who saw what it would eventually bring to the average American. He got my vote and my Congressman got my letters urging he vote against it. He has gotten lots of letters ever since.

The last line of my first letter in November of 1993 ended with my comment, “NAFTA

Posted by whattheheck on Apr 5, 2008 at 1:57 PM

“...American politics is perfectly aligned to help progressives use nationalism for our economic agenda.”

It’s not just about American corporations being given incentives to keep their operations in America, or uphold American labor and environmental standards when abroad. Your economic agenda would benefit from including emphasis upon supporting small businessmen, both rhetorically and legislatively. This might sound like a classically “Republican Party” agenda item (if that matters, and of course to plenty it will), but if it’s economic empowerment of regular folks in the neighborhood you want to push, endorsing and supporting the efforts of small business owners by way of law and advocacy of policy agendas is a big way to do it. It is not common to regard that sector as being akin to “the working class”, so maybe you all will shy off. But I submit that the small business owner and the employee in that business have more of common interests than they do opposing ones. Any sort of gathering of power into fewer hands (including the gathering of economic power into a few conglomerated hands) is in opposition to broadbased empowerment, and that’s the case whether the corporations getting in bed with government, as we know they do, are based in the US or abroad. To the clerk trying to earn enough to put food on the dinner table or her boss trying to get a loan to consolidate her business debts, what’s the difference?

Do something overt and striking to back up the regular guy, and not just the clock-puncher but the one who pays the salaries from his business account in the local bank as well.

Posted by Kuya on Apr 11, 2008 at 12:13 AM

I think today’s economic trend in the U.S. may be a uniting factor to override the racial divide. In fact, it could even be the uniter of many categories of discrimination

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