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Will Trump’s Failures Be Better For The Planet Than Democrats’ Victories?
For those of us who were never okay with wearing clothing made by young girls in sweatshops, for those who were always concerned about our cocoa being harvested by people who never get to taste chocolate, for those of us who never wanted a smart phone if it meant kids mining for the minerals needed to make one, the thought of Donald Trump destroying the U.S. economic system doesn’t seem so bad.
People right now are cringing as they watch Donald Trump’s foolish and arrogant attacks on countries who had always been our allies, which is to say that they’ve always been subservient to our will. They bemoan whatever harm he threatens to do to the current system as if our connection to a global economy had ever been a healthy one, a moral one. It has always been a relationship where people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk exploited the labor of people around the world, using force wherever and whenever necessary. It had just been, up until now, done a little more discreetly. Business and politics had been conducted in the manner of the Cali drug cartel, whereas now it is Pablo Escobar in charge, that is all. But it has always been unjust, always been grossly immoral, always been rooted in violence and a lust for money and power. It’s just more obvious now, and that offends those who have never been involved in making the…