[CCIP]

I think the trend of globalization can be stopped, but I don't think nationalism is the solution to it tbh. If anything, it's a cure worse than the disease. Like it or not, the "I love america, screw everyone else" thinking is part of the problem; in practice that supports the flagrant hoarding of consumer goods by Americans in an effort to sustain an unsustainable lifestyle, which can only happen with the use of cheap foreign labour, i.e. through economic globalization. I don't think any amount of love for the American dream is gonna save America, unless Americans reconsider what it actually means. The US public is, however, by and large drunk on the immediate benefits of economic globalism. Simply trying to bring jobs back or snapping at the Chinese for stealing them won't help anyone anywhere. The fact is that people are more or less the same everywhere, and only by recognizing that can you begin to act fairly and to set realistic lifestyle goals for your country. Otherwise the "we're better" or "I love America, I don't love others" mentality leads to the sense of entitlement to a better lifestyle than China and everyone else, at the expense of both yourself and others.