The common thread between all of these broad entities is the danger they present through the further centralization and consolidation of power to the point they become anti-competitive and oligarchic or monopolistic in nature.
Limited globalization, to the point it allows a country to overcome its own shortcomings or strategic weaknesses, is a boon. Pure globalization to the point it cripples key strategic resources and capabilities is only sustainable to the point that all countries and major players are acting altruistically. Today we are clearly seeing the outcomes of something akin to pure globalization without altruistic actors.
Corporations are a major catalyst for globalization and globalism, but the major threats from them are driven significantly by the centralization of two things:
- World production primarily in China, and to a lesser extent SE Asia (with many SE Asian companies having Chinese ownership).
- Information dissemination being controlled by a few large tech companies and news organizations, of which we are all quite familiar with, here.
The average LLC, C-Corp, or S-Corp is not a threat per se. Simply the centralization of the major players' power in one spot is. However, consider if major corporations' acted with similar perceived self-interest to how they have for decades, but world wide production was not centralized in China, but (more so) distributed throughout the world? Would things look as bleak as they do now? Not likely.
Like corporations, our government as a threat is correlated to the amount of power centralized within it to the point it is no longer answerable to the people it was designed to serve. Day by day, this seems to be expanding at an astonishing rate. Communism is simply the manifestation of the centralization of that power whereas it develops into an oligarchic ruling class over a people who are all equally powerless.
The threat is not any one of these things individually, but the centralized anti-competitive oligarchy of power players already behind them; guiding their moves in concert over decades, if not longer. Whether this is simply driven by China, bankers, or a centuries (millennias?) old global cabal, we can't be one-hundred percent sure. However, whichever it is, it's bigger than any one of these four things.
Let's hope and pray that things are actually happening to rectify this situation and breakup (remove) the power players in order to restore the power to not only the American people, but the World's people.
