How D.J.Trump Won

Ironically, rich capitalist Donald J. Trump won 2016 Presidential Election with great support from workers.

The awarded documentary The American Factory showed us not only the cultural shock brought by Chinese capital invested in the United States, but also the apocalypse of globalization.

In the documentary, a representative of the union said that the workers movement shaped the modern United States in his speech encouraging the employees of Fuyao to vote in favor of establishing union in the factory. However, that movement was nearly a century ago, as he mentioned, 70 years ago precisely. At that time, there was no the globalization which as we know today.

At that time when the workers movement shaping the United States, capitalists had very few choices of building their factories. They might build a car factory in Ohio instead of Illinois if there was a movement in Chicago, but they had to accept the fact when the movement turned to nationwide. They had to balance profit and loss, or rather loss and bigger loss, brought by strike and massive resignation.

Today, everything is different to the golden age of workers. Globalization lowered the trade barrier. Capitalists have more choices in nowadays. They can just shut down the factory in one sovereign jurisdiction and move the manufactural power to another country which can provide cheap labor. I don't want to repeat the frequently-quoted low human rights advantage, but that is the truth. In a jurisdiction which provides less forced protection on workers welfare, capitalists find that they can pay less per hour/person, they don't need to check thousands of pages of laws prohibiting countless wrongdoings, and they can just throw the waste into the nearby river without fearing of being sued by residents living a hundred miles down the flow. Of course they will move the factory and walk away from the country. The developed country can set up a law prohibiting the capitalists firing people at their will, but it can't ban bankruptcy.

In 1980s, the Iron Lady could declare war on British unions face to face and won the round, making Britain great again. Today, unions and leftiers made another Thatcher win impossible, but globalization defeat unions and leftiers on a bigger scale. Globalization successfully downgraded workers' pricing ability, making them vulnerable. Unions and leftiers haven't realized that yet and they are still encourage workers to charge ahead, facing bullet rain. So workers die without a yell.

And Donald Trump showed up. He is maybe doing the greatest change in the United States since Franklin Roosevelt, if not Teddy Roosevelt. The Academy may hate the President who encourage hatred, but let's see.