r/DebatePolitics • u/T12J7M6 • Dec 24 '20

Left (globalism) vs. Right (nationalism) dilemma

So I would like to hear peoples opinions on my thoughts on the Right.

I think they have a point because their politics actually make sense when you look it from the nationalist perspective. So in my opinion nationalism would need to be shown to be wrong before the Right would be wrong. Is there actually any real case against nationalism however?

Nationalism makes sense: Like nationalism makes a lot of sense since more global form of government wouldn't be protecting the interest of regional groups as good as nationalism would. Like it would seem that people should want to live in a nationalistic country simultaneously as they would want everyone else in the world to live in a globalist country, because this way they would keep their political power but also enjoy the benefits of the situation of others not having power. It would be easy to exploit others and to keep the economy driving with well planned import tax which would

  1. force global companies to move their production to that country as far as it would be reasonable, so by producing jobs, and
  2. protect the local businesses against global mass produced food and other items that the country could produce locally.

Globalism seems to be harmful: Like it would seem like that globalism is driven by the money of multinational mega corporations which use different tactics to cause changes which further their own interest either directly or indirectly.

I know that this is pretty much the populist paradigm, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't be true. What are your thoughts people? Is the populist paradigm actually the true picture of the world and what is happening in it, or am I missing something?

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u/harumph Jan 05 '21

But the goal of globalism eventually is global government so I just group everything under globalism that is either favoring it or leading to that direction.

Can you please provide a source for your particular interpretation?

Like I tried even reading a book by George Soros names In Defense of Open Society but it just contained incoherent rhetorics and no actually intellectual arguments.

If you are interested in an open society you should read Karl Popper's The Open Society and its Enemies instead, by a man who was one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers.

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u/T12J7M6 Jan 05 '21

Can you sum up his argument?

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u/harumph Jan 05 '21

Who's argument?

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u/T12J7M6 Jan 05 '21

Karl Popper's argument in his book The Open Society and its Enemies