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bob2356 says

Didn't read what I wrote I see.

I read it. Laughed and moved on. You are deeply confused.

bob2356 says

classic liberalism opposed democracy.

Source? Are you talking about the fact that we are a republic which holds individual rights above mob law?

bob2356 says

Libertarians are just

...just the closest proponents of our constitutional republic? Then we agree.

TwoScoopsOfDragonEnergy says

Europe produced 2 huge empires and several great powers

And two world wars 20 years apart.

bob2356 says

A great life? They were bought in as cheap labour then pretty much locked into the banileus with almost zero opportunity of getting out or getting out of poverty. Put in a job application with an address in one of the banlieue it will be circular filed Well documented. Unemployment in the banlieue is 40-50%.

If they didn't have a great life compared to what they had before, they would go back, wouldn't they?
Health care, education, welfare, with a European standard of living sure beats living in an African hut and hunting with spears.

bob2356 says

No it's not,, classic liberalism opposed democracy. Didn't read what I wrote I see. Trump endorses classic liberalism free trade also?

America was built on the Hamiltonian System of high tariffs and infrastructure investment.

Britain industrialized thanks to 200 previous years of hardcore mercantilism. Britain's world lead vanished a few decades after they embraced Free Trade to protectionist Germany and USA.

TwoScoopsOfDragonEnergy says

Britain's world lead vanished a few decades after they embraced Free Trade to protectionist Germany and USA.

It must be cause and effect ? It couldn't be that they overextended themselves with their empire.

Relative to your point, it would be ironic if having Trump in power and our taking on protectionist policies ends up (in the long run) appearing to be the cause of our continued decreasing influence and relative wealth in the world.

Perhaps this is the master plan of the globalists ?

marcus says

It must be cause and effect ?

That difference was largely due to a United States benefiting from free markets as compared to a HIGHLY regulated great Britain. I'm sure an untapped natural wealth of resources in the USA (as compared to the UK) helped. However, if natural resources were the main driver of wealth creation, then Africa, Australia, and Asia would have all been competitors with the USA.

marcus says

Perhaps this is the master plan of the globalists ?

Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and especially modern day China are the master plan template of the "globalists". The global elites don't want individual freedoms to get in the way of their plans for world domination. See the EU as an example.