Good analysis. Its seems that for the middle people having a cheaper tv and clothes doesn't make up for owning less land, more job insecurity, and as a direct consequence, a shattered family life.

I would like to see some examples of how "Globalisation is making our world more efficient and equitable. "

And why should we 'haves' "learn to have comparatively less"? We have worked for what we have. The 'have nots' should learn to do the same. What the cultural Marxists are really pushing for is wealth redistribution, so that everyone has nothing.

Globalisation is a dud.

The remark about Merkel's "global compassion" and "atonement for atrocities three quarters of a century ago" shows that the author, like Merkel, is hostage to the tyranny of guilt and self-loathing common to all "progressives" Sorry, there can be no atonement by people not responsible for the acts of others long dead. All that happens is that you are opening yourselves up to abuse from your enemies.

anyone who can thinks knows the gw alaramist are charlatans and that immigration needs to be selective. The blatant lies told by academia and the political elite might have dumbed down the likes of the getup crowd and latte sippers however more have woken up to the con. People can now see that Islam is not a religion of peace, man made gw is a hoax for the gullible and that the boats could be stopped. Hanson might not be the brightest but she sures makes those caught up in leftist dogma look stupid. And to think they accuse her of slogans.

I'm sorry but there's little here that has the ring of truth, just an argument for the status quo? People embrace Trump and Hanson because hey're up to here with the non core promises and business as usual of the establishment! And a failure to launch!

The Midwest is a rust belt and deep in is own new Great depression; and our industrial beltway, bringing up the rear?

Even so, the most important thing for our politicians, is just winning power and CONTROL, as if that were the only ultimate goal! With just cozying up to this or that vested interest, not that far behind?

A halfway decent analysis would understand, doing what you've always done, while expecting a different result, is madness!

As is a fire sale of your economic sovereignty to lowest bidder for some very short term gain or to serve some halfassed ideological imperative!

In the course of one lifetime, we were once the third wealthiest nation on the planet and a creditor one at that; and where a single salary could buy a house and serviceable car, feed clothe and educate a family; and even toss in a modest annual family holiday or two!

Look at us now, with increasingly unaffordable housing, over a hundred thousand homeless and a poverty line that goes on up and up swallowing great chunks of the former and disappearing middle class, as it rises like mercury in a thermometer! While more and more of our finite wealth concentrates in fewer and fewer hands!

And that's the central flaw in this alleged analysis! It argues as does all such flawed dog eat dog/prey and predator reasoning, that in order to have winners, there must be losers!

Or put another way, with just a few portly pompous popinjays, standing around a loaded and groaning banquet table; the vast majority must accept the occasional gnawed bones thrown at them as if they were just dogs reliant on the masters pleasure for a genuinely miserable share! Even as the sheer allegorical abundance rots where it lays!
I rest my case!
Alan B.

For a more realistic view of the trajectory of adversarial politics, as we have, visit South Sudan on any given day!
More and more the masses are ignored by the powerful, and eventually turned on each other to feed!

A good post Alan B....on the mark!