re: Protectionism vs. Free Trade

Free trade is a pipe dream for countries. If it was global governance then sure, free trade away. But we have countries. We have borders to protect. We have enemies out there. If you can't make things, you will lose. We will use steel as an example. China is state run so they can drop the price of steel far below market value and crush the competition bankrupting the free trade nations' steel manufacturers. This slowly deteriorates that country's economy as China could keep repeating this for other industries. Then you can't make anything and you will surely be ripe for the picking.

It is also worth mentioning a lot of ideas from that period worth though of in homogeneous societies. Multiculturalism was thought up by people living around a bunch of white people. Nice in thought, bad in practice.

Free trade works wonderfully between the states since they have the same common goal and theoretically we have no problems with other states. I don't really even like certain states anymore due to their laws like California. I do want smaller federal government but I want it with state citizenships so we wouldn't have to deal with liberals moving from their shite states they fricked up or allowing illegals in.