The most popular buzzword in this election is….Populism.
The media has analyzed the populism of the Right with Trump and the populism on the Left with Sanders….they have left NO stone unturned trying to explain the rise of Trump and Sanders…..
If you subscribe to the premise that there is a rising sentiment among the voters toward populism….and if you feel as I do, that foreign policy will play heavily in the next few years…the the logic question would be…..What is the truth about populism and foreign policy?
Last week in Foreign Affairs, Richard Fontaine and Robert D. Kaplan analyzed the impact of this year’s campaign populism on U.S. foreign policy. Domestic economic difficulties, they argued, have made Americans less willing to have their country play a large role abroad. Even if neither Donald Trump nor Bernie Sanders ends up as president, future policymakers will have to heed the strong sentiments these candidates have tapped.
At first glance, the data confirm this view. A Pew Research Center report published May 5 found that 65 percent of Republicans and 73 percent of Democrats want the next president to focus on domestic rather than foreign affairs. Almost two-thirds of Trump supporters—and a narrow majority of Sanders backers—agreed that the United States has suffered from its involvement in the global economy. And 61 percent of Americans (as well as 71 percent of Republicans) agreed that the United States has lost the international respect it once enjoyed.
Source: The Truth About Populism and Foreign Policy | Foreign Affairs
The US is spreading its troops and resources around the globe like peanut butter on a cracker…..with the rise of populism will this effect our commitments that the M-IC needs to stay afloat?
Wii the campaigns of Trump and Sanders influence the two major parties in their international dealings?
What will be the outcome of the rise of populism?
Not a lot!
Film say’s it all….the M.I.C needs to stay afloat….otherwise?
Military-Industrial Complex – the Rise of the War Economy
https://youtu.be/uUxyJYaaGUw via @YouTube
Even before the culture morphed to make everyone think they’re the centre of the universe, nobody gave a fuck about anything outside the borders of the continental US. So as long as America keeps kicking asses abroad, nobody really gives a fuck. In fact, since MISC Industries provide recession-proof jobs, most Americans are willing to accept Perpetual War, no matter how uncomfortable they are with it as a concept.
All Americans care about is domestic policy…which makes the obsession with Presidential politics all the more silly, because Congress is where (the majority of) all domestic policy happens.
And that is why the GOP actually wins…they are better at getting the Reps elected…..