Bob Schroeck Wrote:I still haven't decided on the political course for the US. During the 90s it goes whole hog right-wing isolationist conspiracy-theory whackjob -- do I send it further down the rabbit hole, or does the pendulum swing back during the 2000s? I'll entertain arguments either way.I'd suggest having the pendulum swing back. An isolationist country is a country that doesn't know enough about what's going on to trade with other countries on a level playing field, and the global economy has been tending toward integration and freer-trade ever since WWII. American companies would likely tell the US government "either you open up again or we move," just in order to keep their market share, and the public might be wonering what happened to all those lovely cheap Chinese Indonesian goods they're used to buying.
That gives the government the problem of convincing the citizens of the benefits of internationalism... No, that's going too far - make that "open trade and discourse" instead of "internationalism."
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012