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In reply to the discussion: The first casualties of Trump's trade wars are Texas cattle ranchers [View all]orwell
(7,771 posts)...International trade is a complex dynamic best left to professional politicians, trade economists, political scientists, professional diplomats...you know - competent professionals with experience.
Instead we now determine complex trade policy on bulletin boards, conspiracy sites, political forums, Cable News channels, Facebook and Twitter. The "dumberati" electorate are herded about like sheep braying in the wind, unaware of how they are manipulated by social media algorithms and professional marketing operations.
How else can you explain the rise of an incompetent con-man like Drumpf to the highest office in the land. We have never known a real trade war in our lifetimes. It ain't pretty folks. It is incredibly destabilizing both politically and economically.
We have met the enemy and he is us...