The United Federation of Planets vs The Evil Empire
I grew up in the era of Star Trek. Watching the show it was obvious that their society had advanced far beyond ours. For example, the earth no longer used money and the planet was united with a central government. Indeed, the name United Federation of Planets implied that this government spanned more than just earth.
Those altruistic dreams of a somewhat utopian fictional future inspired more than one generation to dream big about our own destiny – and some of us never stopped. After a long business career, I now write science fiction novels under a different pen name (William Lee Gordon). Like many writers, I was inspired by events from my past… And that vision of what humanity could achieve has never left me.
Unfortunately, reality seems to follow more along the Star Wars theme. The Evil Empire is, well… evil. The Emperor and his cronies want to control everything and everyone. The heroes are the freedom-loving rebels that just want to be left alone with their families to build their future.
I believe we eventually will have a worldwide government. It won’t happen tomorrow, but it will eventually come about. The real issue at stake is what kind of government will it be?
If we want the future to be a place where all people benefit from technology (and the standard of living continually improves), where all men (and women) are created equal and slavery is abolished, where everyone can be free to worship their own God, chose their own way and prosper accordingly, where individual liberty is assured, and where everyone has access to education, high-quality health care, and a justice system that is blind and fair… If we really want a future where every child has the freedom to follow any path and find their own destiny, then shouldn’t we be aspiring to the forms of government that have proven to take us in that direction, rather than trying to emulate the types of government that have led to poverty, despair, enslavement, and misery?
What we want is the type of government our Founding Fathers and the Constitution they ratified gave us. It is the type of government, however, that no country, no colony, no people can be forced to join. Just like the original colonies and the Republic of Texas (a sovereign state) voted to join the United States of America, any non-authoritarian world government would need to attract its members – not coerce, annex, extort, or enslave them. It would need to happen organically, over time.
In the Star Trek world, the Federation of Planets was always inviting other worlds to join them. In the Star Wars universe, the Evil Empire expanded by oppression, war and conquest.
Globalism should never be confused with Globalization
Globalization is simply the better understanding and appreciation of our neighbors fostered by faster travel, better communications, increased trade, and cultural homogenization.
Globalism, on the other hand, is an ‘ism’… like fascism, communism, or socialism. It is an authoritarian type of government. The Globalism being crammed down our throats today is nothing less than worldwide communism. In the words of the World Economic Forum, “You will own nothing and be happy.”1
Globalization is inevitable. Globalism can only be forced upon us.
The international push to globalism is very real. But we must understand the means and the motives of the Globalists. Multinational Corporations and the Ruling Class Oligarchs that run many of them wish to develop emerging markets. Like all businesses they want to expand and to do that they need new customers. Many of these potential new markets, however, are found in underdeveloped countries. Countries with massive poverty. The challenge for the multinationals is that an impoverished population cannot afford to purchase televisions, automobiles, smartphones, cable TV subscriptions, and any of another thousand commodities offered in the modern world. Most of these Third World countries (at least the ones that have thrown off the yoke of dictators, communism, and socialism) are progressing and their populations are slowly but surely becoming richer. They are slowly but surely finding a better quality of life and a better standard of living. But it’s not always happening fast enough for CEOs to satisfy shareholder demands for increased profits – or the egos of the Ruling Class oligarchs who control them.2
The faster solution of the Ruling Class Globalists is to redistribute the wealth of the planet.
The United States is a rich country and, compared to most of the world, has a rich population. Rather than holding up that example and encouraging the rest of the world to follow the same model, they scheme to take wealth from the American Middle-class and redistribute it among poor countries. They do this by taking jobs (traditionally it’s been manufacturing jobs) from America and placing them in those emerging markets.3 This has multiple benefits for the multinationals; not only can they manufacture their products much less expensively (labor is much cheaper there), but they are in effect taking the US dollars you use to purchase a product and transferring them via wages to the economy of a Third World country. This helps develop that country and enrich the population sufficiently that they can afford to buy products from the multinational.4 Unfortunately, it takes those dollars out of our economy, reduces our economic growth, and promotes stagnation here. Perhaps the most egregious example of this was NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement).5 This trade agreement transformed Mexico’s economy and increased the profits of a lot of large corporations, but devastated America’s middle class.6
Based on those profit-gorged results from dealing with Mexico, these newly enriched multinationals set their sights on doing what they do best – expanding. Other large corporations had taken notice and wanted their own multinational opportunity. It took years to negotiate with all the individual countries, but in the end, it wasn’t hard to find willing trade partners in the Pacific Rim that would gladly accept a massive transfer of wealth and jobs from the United States. And because they had already seduced a large number of Ruling Class Politicians, the Ruling Class Oligarchy was quite confident in its ability to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). This was a trade agreement between as many as 18 countries that would denude certain sovereignties held by the United States.7 Massive amounts of US trade policy would then be controlled by international panels8 – they could all but dissolve our borders and tariffs and their Globalist dream of breaking down the sovereignty of those pesky nationalist countries (especially the United States) could take hold.
And then along came President Donald Trump. Because he was protecting the interests of the American people (as opposed to the Ruling Class Oligarchs), he declared the United States would be withdrawing from TPP. As the American economy was the Keystone partner in the agreement (or victim, depending on your point of view) this withdrawal all but assured it would never be ratified. This was infuriating to the Globalists because billions of dollars had already been spent by international Ruling Class Oligarchs in anticipation of its ratification.9 They weren’t very happy…10
To truly understand the Globalist’s mindset, we need to realize that this massive transfer of wealth and jobs from the United States has been going on for decades. For all of their lives, the U.S. Middle-class has been used as the world’s piggybank - it is their normal. The Globalists have raised their children as elites who shouldn’t care that the U.S. standard of living has been devastated; they have been taught it is only fair that Americans be no richer than any other people. They do not remember nor care that in my parent’s generation, an average one-income family of four could afford a car, a home, a decent life, and a nice vacation once a year. Today, this would be totally out of reach for most Americans.
The Globalists and their bought and paid-for surrogates (politicians, media, bureaucrats, college professors, etc.) do not care about your standard of living.
It is mind-boggling to think of how empowered every American would be, how high a standard of living we could have achieved, had we not spent the last 50 years draining off those riches. It is devastating to realize how high we could have raised humanity with our example and generosity.
The Ruling Class Oligarchs were all but certain of ultimate victory (and permanent self-enrichment) and will not let what they think of as the Trump Interruption derail them. We have seen the lengths they will go to fulfill their vision of Globalism – even to the point of stealing elections.
The American people need to make a decision and make a stand. The results of this forced move toward Globalism are what is important to look at – and the results are that the manufacturing base in America has been gutted.11 And what was once the wealthiest middle class in the world is now enduring the lowest Labor Participation Rate since 1977.12 And as bad for America as this is, it pales in comparison to what our future holds if we continue down this path…
StressFreeBill
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/world-economic-forum-urges-public-eliminate-ownership-private-vehicles/
https://bea.gov/papers/pdf/HMS1.PDF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_NAFTA_on_Mexico
http://www.epi.org/blog/naftas-impact-workers/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/11/the-middle-class-is-shrinking-just-about-everywhere-in-america/?utm_term=.7e981e63d7d8
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/06/22/jeff_sessions_trade_agreements_cede_us_sovereignty_permanently_to_new_transnational_authority_same_language_used_to_start_the_european_union.html
https://www.citizen.org/our-work/globalization-and-trade/more-power-corporations-attack-nations
http://www.vir.com.vn/foreign-textile-firms-reel-out-new-investments-in-anticipation-of-tpp.html
https://www.cato.org/blog/withdrawing-tpp-was-senseless-act-wanton-destruction?gclid=CjwKEAjws-LKBRDCk9v6_cnBgjISJAADkzXefNAw9w1neXBteXiWoXwhlh66M_Ba2svvgHW21ssrCRoCErTw_wcB
https://www.thetrumpet.com/2061-the-death-of-american-manufacturing
http://www.businessinsider.com/labor-force-participation-rate-falls-to-38-year-low-2015-7
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