Trade is important but survival is more important, and trading should reflect that hierarchy of values

Greed rules, but to say that less abstractly, greedy people rule. And so American global capitalism has been taking apart industrial jobs in America and destroying lower and middle-class workers, as they cash in on the rise to power of China. They have even sold to China the right to make the steel which our defense industry depends upon.

That looks like traitorism to me, that is, betraying the obligation one has to the survival of ones country.

So the trade off for real conservatives has been to have President Trump throw us the crumbs of putting tariffs on Chinese products, as he promised, and in return we have to put up with Trump's sordid behavior.

But the global capitalist's who control almost every institution in America, from banking to the Media, are now out to destroy President Trump for trying to get in the way of their global greed.  They may succeed.

It seems to me that greed will not go away until---you guessed it---the present empire of global greed  falls, or at least is tamed.

Trade is important, it helped make America great, but survival is more important, and trading should reflect that hierarchy of values.