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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: really big physics
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 23:40:12 +1100
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On 3/04/2025 10:31 pm, john larkin wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 09:14:46 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
> 
>> bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/2/2025 4:46 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>>
>>>>> The best thing for the West right now is a hefty dose of nationalistic
>>>>> patriotism (but without the bellicose element which we can well do
>>>>> without, of course). Globalism has impoverished us, and will continue
>>>>> to do so until its proponents are crushed and sanity restored.
>>>>
>>>> Competition makes most everything better. In the USA, we have states
>>>> competing for people and businesses. Europe would be better off with
>>>> more (peaceful!) competition between countries and less globalist
>>>> bureaucracy.
>>>
>>> If the US shuts out the whole world, then the whole world will be all
>>> alone without us. Checkmate, world!
>>
>> If the US shuts out the whole world, then theUS will be all
>> alone without the rest of the World. Checkmate,US!
> 
> https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2025-04/GettyImages-2208184612.jpg?h=199d8c1f&itok=aHFHHcAS
> 
> Open borders and wildly asymmetric tarriffs benefit the coastal elites
> and hurt the flyover-territory working class, namely increase
> inequality in the US. I think the working people feel this
> intuitively, and voted suitably.

US inequality is remarkably high, and has been for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Level_(book)

was published in 2009, and documents a long established situation.

Trump is introducing asymmetric tariffs, and these will cost consumer's 
money. There's a real chance that they will trigger an international 
recession, much as the Smoot-Hawley Act did in 1930.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act

This isn't going to help the flyover-territory working class in the US, 
and if Trump's clown car knew what they were doing they'd know this.
You should too.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney