JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NIKKI HALEY AS A PARODY OF WHAT SHE THINKS SHE IS - AMERICA'S PRINCIPLES TWISTED OUT OF RECOGNITION - NOTE ON THE MEANING OF "GLOBALISM"

COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA INSIDER

The Bombast of Nikki Haley

She’s a lightweight, and a warmongering globalist

Nikki Haley is virtually a parody of what she believes she is.

All thinking people can see that.

It remains a wonder and a mystery that the United States puts forward such appalling people as diplomats.

But of course, many things about the way the US conducts its international affairs remain mysteries.

Nikki is simply a creature of the Israel Lobby. She speaks at times almost as though she did not know which country she represented, Israel or the United States. Israel loves her.

That fact explains Nikki, but we can never fully understand how such a large and powerful country as the US is so completely under the influence of Israel that it ignores terrifying realities and pretends it is doing good things for humanity, all while employing idiots to represent it.

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Just a technical language note.

I do object to this author's use of the word "globalist" for Haley.

It is a common enough use among America's Alt-Right and Libertarians, but it is fundamentally wrong.

True globalism is something much larger than Nikki Haley's provincialism, open prejudice, and aggression.

Globalism involves support for international institutions and treaties and an effort to make the rule of law work better in the international sphere. Not a bad set of goals.

She and other Americans like her are simply American Imperialists.

There is no other term for it.

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Response to a reader who wrote: That may be your interpretation of Globalism. Others may call the transfer of capital to where labour is the cheapest, and the importation of cheap labour into western economies to drive down wages to be Globalism. Support for international treaties is simply that - support for international treaties.

Well, I can see how some may use the term that way.

But this is like giving a special term to the normal operation of the world economy.

Moving capital and seeking cheap labor are just the natural, inevitable operations of capitalism.

What is properly called globalization is just the movement of all resources and inputs on a planetary scale. It is the end result of the first steps taken in the 15th century to move products or skills between previously isolated rural villages.

Technology has steadily advanced to keep the process going and speed it up, as with new airplanes, ships, and telecommunications.

With a few centuries of growth, the same mechanism operates globally now.

You don’t need a special name, and the process will go on unless you in some way suppress it.

Suppressing these movements or advocating their suppression is a form of Luddism and in the end simply will not work, any more than it works to suppress new inventions and machines.

What does need a name is the world structure of agreements, treaties, and rules increasingly necessary as the inevitable process continues, just as we need a structure of laws within each country now.

No sensible person wants chaos nor do they want dictatorship by America.

People like Nikki Haley essentially operate on the assumption that America's laws and rules and assumptions will govern. That is exactly what makes them Imperialists.

This is the source of many difficulties ahead. Other countries now grown strong following being flattened in WWII do not want dictates from America. They want laws and rules representing everyone’s interests, global interests.

The trouble with parts of America's Alt-Right and Libertarians is that they do not see these important distinctions.

They speak endlessly of the evil of "globalism." Really, they are speaking against nothing which makes any sense.

Effectively, they support Nikki Haley's Imperialism, which tells us America has the right rules to govern everything and is ready and willing to do so.

They only depart from folks like her in not wanting the worldwide movements of capital and labor, but that is foolish, much like trying to command the wind to stop.

There were groups like this in the early modern era when the previous middle ages practice of commons was being overthrown by enclosures (of pasture lands), a way people owning estates could make what they owned more profitable.

The battles went on long and hard over enclosures in England, but the advance of enclosures won. And just so the movement of factors of production. But we need rules.

People are opponents because they are full of sentimental old American claptrap about how perfect America's set-up is and how they don't want it disturbed by the world.

But it is going to be disturbed, no matter what.

And, by the way, over time, this inevitable process will erode the traditional nation state concept. That too is inevitable. After all, the modern nation state was an artificial creation of the 18th and especially 19th centuries. Before that, everything was empires and kingdoms.

The eventual erosion of nation states is why some Alt-Right and Libertarians so oppose what they call globalism. I think they are just as doomed as the Nikki Haley Imperialist types who wish to govern the whole future by their rules.