Yes, offshoring all our manufacturing to places with no worker protections, no environmental protections, long work weeks, and poor wages is absolutely a liberal policy. We're all about winning the race to the bottom.
The World Bank and the IMF have always been the left's shining beacons, that bring progressive enlightenment to the downtrodden masses, the global south is not being ruthlessly exploited by multinationals, and we've always been at war with Eastasia.
I mean, that's not how I remember the politics of the 90s, but who's to say?
If you want those places to start having worker rights and environmental protections, then you better make sure they're rich first, by giving them jobs and trade.
The only reason they don't have these things is because they're poor in the first place. Only wealthy societies can afford those things.
Free trade is the global labor and environment solution.
Or maybe you want those countries to be environmentally destructive forever?
Look - you don't have to believe that these complaints are valid. You don't even have to believe that viable alternatives to unrestricted capitalism should exist. I'm not trying to convince you of that!
However, you are incredibly unlikely to convince me that in decades past, those beliefs were held by 'progressives.'
The World Bank and the IMF have always been the left's shining beacons, that bring progressive enlightenment to the downtrodden masses, the global south is not being ruthlessly exploited by multinationals, and we've always been at war with Eastasia.
I mean, that's not how I remember the politics of the 90s, but who's to say?