In "The Hard Road to World Order," Richard Gardner, who later became Bill Clinton's ambassador to Spain, explained how, "The 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up. … An end run about national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than a frontal assault."
The European Union shows how its done. What began as an arrangement for trading coal and steel between France and Germany has grown into a 27-nation superstate with a central bureaucracy regulating everything from food labeling to immigration policy – powers once held by national governments.
The "free flow of people goods and money" was the goal of the EU's founders. This was also the principle behind another multi-nation agreement, the TransPacific Partnership. The TPP was meant to merge the economies of 12 nations on four continents, including the U.S. A supranational governing commission with veto power over national policy would write the rules covering virtually all economic activity, including substantial immigration policies. (President Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement in 2017.)
Bill Clinton's Yale roommate who went on to serve as his deputy secretary of state, Strobe Talbott, explains the future the elites have been building: "Countries are … artificial and temporary. … Within the next hundred years … nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century – "citizen of the world" – will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st."
Talbott wrote that in 1992. Today, NBC promotes an annual "Global Citizen" concert on national television. CNN has replaced "Auld Lang Syne" with "Imagine," John Lennon's ode to a world without borders, nations or religion, as its New Year's Eve theme song, lest we not forget our old acquaintance with nation and culture.
A post-national, post-democratic mindset guides the experts who advise business and political leaders. Corporate consultants like McKinsey and Company have grown fat telling American business to cut costs by moving to China even though that has led to the death of American communities left without jobs and opportunity.
The globalist ideology has corrupted Washington. Stateless transnational corporations and foreign governments run influence-peddling shell games through a rat's nest of think tanks, lobbyists, banks and Wall Street investment houses.
Nonprofit "think tanks" turn out op-eds and white papers pushing policies premised on "what's good for the global economy." Lobbyists then cite this "expert thinking" to press Congress to advance their interests. And schools of political science and business at universities endowed by these same global interests train the next generation of leaders in their way of thinking.
The globalist ideology has even penetrated the Pentagon, the outfit established to defend America. Procurement officials have abandoned Buy American, once required by law. They now look overseas to purchase supplies, parts and technology for our troops and weapons systems. These officials then cycle through the revolving door to positions in the global corporations supplying the Defense Department.
The elites worked to make a borderless world with the Treaty of Rome and a catalog of free-trade agreements. Over the decades, Washington outsourced its decisions and policymaking to global organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Strobe Talbott saw these institutions as "protoministries of trade, finance and development for a united world." They are part of "the post-war international rules-based order" our State Department promotes every day.
Now, the Chinese Communist Party uses globalization as a Trojan horse to take over the world. It has taken control of the World Bank and more than a dozen U.N. agencies. It flouts the rules of the WTO even as it calls on other nations to cede their decision-making power to that organization.
The CCP portrays itself as the defender of globalization when its true agenda is "globalism for you, nationalism for us."
The Wuhan virus pandemic has shown us the dangers of globalism. Outsourcing our manufacturing power to Communist China left us dependent on that totalitarian regime for medical supplies and other essential goods.
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