This book speaks of post Vietnam leaders’ desire for a more cooperative global world order. Discouraged by war, they hoped that globalism and free trade - at any price - would discourage nationalism and end wars. This strategy became the central academic, economic and foreign-policy priority for the next fifty years. What could possibly have gone wrong? And tragically it had. Globalization or Democracy documents the complex concatenations -both economic and political - with their deleterious outcomes.
The November 2024 election presents a significant challenge, transcending the traditional Democrat versus Republican divide. This election will determine the future of the American Republic, Western civilization, and potentially the survival of the human species. Plato suggested that democracies tend to devolve into oligarchies, and we are witnessing that transformation before our eyes. Three major trends in the U.S. threaten to replace our Constitution and representative government with a totalitarian, internationalist, socialistic oligarchy. First, seventy years of Soviet subversion, the Vietnam War, and generations of youth who were taught to reject American institutions have undermined U.S. leadership. Now, Chinese espionage, bribery, and infiltration further contribute to the erosion of America’s traditions of citizenship, enterprise, and prosperity. Second, NGOs in Washington, an entrenched bureaucracy, and organizations like the Trilateral Commission prioritize internation...
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