Don't take this the wrong way, but I think a more accurate description of your politics might be something like "an economic nationalist" instead of a liberal.
By any global metric you look at globalization is doing amazingly. "A U.N. goal to halve the poverty rate in the developing world between 1990 and 2015 was nearly achieved twice over."[1].
The whole process of relaxing limitations on trade has been a huge boost for developing countries who are currently on a runaway growth trajectory. E.g. look at the GDP growth graphs for the developed v.s. developing world in this[2] article.
Yes we could do better, but it's already great. Yes as some jobs move to developing countries people in developed countries are temporarily displaced, but there's no suggestion that we can't continually recover from that situation.
After all our societies aren't overflowing with jobless ex-steelworkers, ex-textile workers or any other industry you might want to name which has predominantly moved abroad.
Instead we continue to lead the charge in economic development, but because of globalization we're increasingly dragging the rest of the world with us.
I might not have represented myself that well, I'm trying more to address the people who are affected domestically. I'm not arguing against globalization at all (with words or votes) but we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and have nots domestically and that divide is, I'm afraid, going to rip our country apart (and others, since it seems to be happening everywhere to some extent but the US has a weaker and weakening social safety net).
I don't see any way to micromanage the economy and to pull away from the world and have it actually benefit us, I might not have made clear that I don't consider that to be an actual option. I think its nuts that increasing taxes on those who benefit massively from globalization is a total non-starter and might lead us to disaster. In fact, we're about to potentially slash taxes on those same people and cut services to the rest of the country, we're moving totally backwards and the divide is just going to get larger.
So on the one hand, people losing their jobs is a shame but I wouldn't reorient our entire economy just to make sure people can still have factory jobs, but at the same time its up to us as a society whether or not simply losing your job because of changes in the global marketplace is a life-altering disaster or simply something we all deal with together.
By any global metric you look at globalization is doing amazingly. "A U.N. goal to halve the poverty rate in the developing world between 1990 and 2015 was nearly achieved twice over."[1].
The whole process of relaxing limitations on trade has been a huge boost for developing countries who are currently on a runaway growth trajectory. E.g. look at the GDP growth graphs for the developed v.s. developing world in this[2] article.
Yes we could do better, but it's already great. Yes as some jobs move to developing countries people in developed countries are temporarily displaced, but there's no suggestion that we can't continually recover from that situation.
After all our societies aren't overflowing with jobless ex-steelworkers, ex-textile workers or any other industry you might want to name which has predominantly moved abroad.
Instead we continue to lead the charge in economic development, but because of globalization we're increasingly dragging the rest of the world with us.
1. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/01/20/the-globa...
2. https://oneinabillionblog.com/energy/energy-policy/a-common-...