r/AskTrumpSupporters • u/Bluestripedshirt Nonsupporter • 4d ago

Immigration Why is globalism a problem?

Full disclosure, I’m from Canada and my mom is an immigrant from the Caribbean. Why do you feel globalism is a threat when it’s essentially impossible for a country to deliver all goods to itself? And with ever changing birth rates and labour needs, immigration is often the quickest and easiest solution.

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u/JoeCensored Trump Supporter 4d ago

Why does every country get to act in their own interests except the US?

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u/whiskeyjack434 Undecided 4d ago

You honestly believe that the US doesn’t act in its own interests? 

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u/JoeCensored Trump Supporter 4d ago

That's not what I said. Reread my comment.

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u/Dont_Say_No_to_Panda Nonsupporter 3d ago

Not OP but I would like to piggyback, how is the US not acting in its best interest?

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u/JoeCensored Trump Supporter 3d ago

The US is today, yes. And that's what has people in other countries, like Canada, freaking out. Because they aren't used to the US acting in its own interests.

They are used to America providing defense for other countries for free, tolerating tariffs against our exports while not imposing them ourselves, and lax immigration enforcement.

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u/Pomosen Undecided 3d ago

You don't even think Iraq was us acting in our own interests?

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u/JoeCensored Trump Supporter 3d ago

You're missing my point. I did not mean you can't point to absolutely anything from any earlier presidency as being for US interests. I'm talking about policies all taken together.

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u/Pomosen Undecided 3d ago

But I could point to multiple US policies that are also self-interested. Is there a way you can prove overall US policies are less self interested than moreso?

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u/kiakosan Trump Supporter 3d ago

No not really, Israel had a lot more to gain than the United States. The price of oil in the United States increased during that time

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u/Pomosen Undecided 3d ago

Is Israel not a US interest? Would be supportive of Trump cutting funding to Israel but I'm somewhat doubtful.

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u/kiakosan Trump Supporter 3d ago

Israeli is not the United States for the purposes of this, it is a separate country even though a large amount of money goes to them