THE DEVaSTATION OF GLOBALIZATION on the usa

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In the annals of American betrayal, few chapters reek as foul as the systematic dismantling of our manufacturing might by a cabal of spineless, self-enriching parasites and their billionaire puppet masters. These venal, backstabbing charlatans, draped in the tattered flag of “global progress” and “free trade,” have masterminded a multi-decade robbery that shipped millions of decent-paying jobs to sweatshops abroad, turned thriving Main Streets into opioid-ravaged wastelands, and condemned generations to poverty, despair, and desperation. From Nixon’s treacherous Beijing bow to the endless torrent of cheap Chinese garbage flooding our stores, this is the damning, linear record of avarice-drenched corruption that transformed the world’s greatest industrial powerhouse into a pathetic importer of foreign trinkets, leaving American families homeless, hungry, and hopeless. Every veteran sleeping on the streets, every child going without meals, every bankrupt small business—blame these treacherous Washington vermin who sold out their own people for campaign cash and boardroom perks.

It all ignited with that paranoid, power-obsessed crook Richard Nixon, whose 1972 China visit wasn’t diplomacy—it was the opening act of economic treason. On February 21, 1972, this slimy opportunist landed in Beijing, fawning over Mao and Zhou while shattering decades of isolation for a pathetic Cold War edge. The Shanghai Communiqué of February 27, 1972, was nothing but a blank check for “mutually beneficial” trade that flooded America with slave-labor goods. Nixon, that contemptible egomaniac, sacrificed American workers on the altar of his geopolitical chess game, blind to the tsunami of cheap imports that would soon drown factories nationwide.

Trade ballooned from a measly $95.9 million in 1972, paving the way for corporate monsters like Walmart—run by that faux-folksy fraud Sam Walton—to gorge on Chinese imports. By the early 1980s, Walmart was already hooked, and post-2001 WTO, it shoveled $15 billion yearly into Beijing’s coffers. Today, your iPhone, Android, even the American flags we pretend to honor—all scream “Made in China.” What a grotesque, humiliating disgrace, courtesy of Nixon’s short-sighted, soul-selling scheming.

Enter the 1980s under that Hollywood has-been huckster Ronald Reagan, whose deregulatory fever dream supercharged the rot. Manufacturing peaked at 19.6 million jobs in June 1979 (22% of nonfarm employment), but Reagan’s “trickle-down” fairy tale—really a torrent upward—triggered recessions that axed millions. He stood idly by as 1.5 million jobs vanished in one downturn and 2 million in another, championing offshoring to low-wage hellholes like China while his Wall Street cronies gorged.

Jobs plunged from 19.4 million in 1980 to 17.8 million by 1985, as family factories shuttered and corporate greed trumped patriotism. Reagan’s callous, cronies-first regime couldn’t be bothered with the jobless, hopeless constituents left in the dust—Main Street USA’s slow strangulation began in Earnestine. If not for the arguable fact that Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot . Resulting in the collapse of the USSR and bringing down the Berlin Wall. His most stand out remembrance will be the 1980s decade of American greed.

Bumbling oil-heir George W. Bush presided over the full “China Shock” after China’s WTO entry on December 11, 2001. Imports from China skyrocketed from $102 billion in 2001 to hundreds of billions, ballooning the deficit to $324.2 billion by 2013 and erasing 3.7 million jobs (2.8 million in manufacturing) from 2001-2018. His lobbyist-infested administration ignored factory closures, with manufacturing hemorrhaging from 17.3 million in 1999 to 11.5 million by 2009. Walmart’s $49.1 billion in Chinese imports by 2013 exemplified the filthy corruption. Electronics, toys, even American icons like Converse and Levi’s—all betrayed for cheap labor. Bush (H W) had the world in his back pocket selling out America.  Pathetic.

Then came slick, silver-tongued opportunist Bill Clinton in 1994, ramming through NAFTA—a one-sided, worker-crushing abomination disguised as progress. Signed under Bush Sr. but force-fed by Clinton, it promised jobs but delivered carnage: 700,000 U.S. positions lost to Mexico’s wage-slave factories. The U.S.-Mexico trade surplus flipped to a $54 billion deficit by 2014, gutting manufacturing. Clinton’s treacherous 2000 grant of Permanent Normal Trade Relations to China, ignoring union screams and economist warnings, was pure billionaire-pandering corruption. Imports surged, obliterating textiles, furniture, and wages. Small businesses were crushed; Main Street accelerated its funeral march under this duplicitous sellout.

Smooth-talking empty-suit Barack Obama slithered in during the Great Recession, promising a million manufacturing jobs. Instead, this duplicitous demagogue peddled atrocious deals that turbocharged offshoring. His secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), signed February 4, 2016, was a job-destroying monster labor warned would kill up to 450,000 positions. The U.S.-Korea deal (2012) exploded the deficit by 84%, costing I13,500 jobs in year one alone. Offshoring disguised U.S. firms as “factoryless,” eroding wages and displacing workers into dead-end gigs. Manufacturing added a pitiful 370,000 jobs in his final stretch—far short of his boast. Main Street decayed while corporate cronies pulled the strings.

Doddering, incoherent relic Joe Biden stumbled into office in 2021, inheriting tariffs but botching everything with incompetent, crony-kowtowing blunders. He let China blow past Phase One purchase targets by $200 billion without consequences, emboldening the import flood. His “industrial policy” copies, CHIPS Act, Inflation Reduction Act, funneled billions into half-baked handouts that distorted markets, hiked costs, and failed to reverse offshoring.

China dominated manufacturing, running surpluses while U.S. deficits swelled and heartland towns hollowed. Weak enforcement on spy apps and restrictions perpetuated the nightmare. Biden’s bumbling incompetence left corruption rampant and workers starving. The Biden presidency will be remembered as the most corrupt in modern American history.

As of late 2025, manufacturing employment hovers around a pathetic 12.7–12.8 million—down from 19.5 million in 1979, a devastating 35%+ collapse. Jobs have continued bleeding, with losses like 78,000 year-over-year through mid-2025 amid ongoing offshoring and automation excuses. Black workers suffered disproportionately, losing over 646,500 positions from 1998-2020.

Homelessness explodes, healthcare is a luxury, children starve, while these corrupt, accountability dodging overlords from Nixon to Biden pocket lobbyist millions. Their billionaire masters, Walmart fat cats, Tech  tyrants cackle as America crumbles. This bipartisan disgraceful, treasonous sellout fueled by greed, corruption, and utter contempt for constituents demands a reckoning. The devastation in our streets? It’s all on them. We The People will see to it that they pay in dollars or in blood.

This thesis argues that Trump’s MAGA agenda represents a concerted effort to revitalize American exceptionalism jthrough economic protectionism, immigration reform, and the reassertion of national sovereignty. By analyzing key policy initiatives and their implications, this research contends that Trump’s presidency has catalyzed a cultural and economic rebirth, albeit amidst polarizing controversy.  Trump’s economic strategy has been characterized by tax cuts, deregulation, and aggressive trade renegotiations. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017) slashed corporate rates from 35% to 21%, spurring record GDP growth and stock market highs. Furthermore, Trump’s withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and renegotiation of NAFTA reflect his commitment to fair trade. These moves have bolstered domestic manufacturing, reduced trade deficits, and created jobs.