Fair enough. You looked into the detail of this more than I did. (View Post)

It has to run a current account deficit perhaps. It ran a trade surplus between the end of WWII and ~1970, presumably sending many dollars overseas to make investments in other countries. That's… (View Post)

A more imaginative left would have more to say about the future they want to create, rather than what they oppose in the status quo. For example, the Right aren't simply anti-immigration. They a… (View Post)

Trump has set himself against the Enlightenment. He is destroying Western civilization. He is dragging the US back to an Early Modern view of the state and power. It's a fucking disaster. (View Post)

There have been lots of people worried about the scale of US (and European) imports from China for many years. I also "agree" with Trump on motherhood and apple pie being good things. This … (View Post)