I can agree with your premise. But how do we balance protectionism with uniting with the world? I would like you to consider why capitalists were building international business and governments were pushing it. At the same time, the same governments were supporting anti international unionism. In this way there were no checks and balances which created the unbridled capitalism. If there were checks and balances that equaled each other, either side of the argument both top down and bottom up would be struggling to answer complex questions such as global warming and food production, which universities refused to truly answer.

Since there is no international movement for checks and balances, we rely on individual voices to control our society. Those individual voices fall right back into self serving concepts and not the common good (altruism). Universities are teaching the way to extort communities. Liberals are backing them up by claiming that education is the only way to live in the forthcoming technical society without the vision of looking at a rose or studying the movements of ants for the production of food. These are my food for thought.

Bill