Articles in Unfounded Speculation: Month archive for June, 2010
Articles on wide-ranging topics, all of a speculative nature.
Globalization Protests
Posted on June 27th, 2010 by
Stephen DeGrace
The G20 meeting in Toronto is wrapping up with the usual protests and usual violence and destruction having entailed. It leaves me with the question, why does the Left so reliably show up to protest all forms of multilateral discussion and international cooperation? You would think that the xenophobic and isolationist Right would take that role and that the Left would be the cheerleaders of multilateralism. And yet, the opposite is usually the case. Instead, the Left engages in pointless protests which always draw violent factions, which necessitate severe security measures at these types of events. Certainly this contributes to the alienation of the Left from most of the population and their continuing slide into political irrelevance.