1/Thread - where I try to answer this thought-provoking question by @timcast 
2/ The analytical framework I'll go with is Hegels' Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis framework, also known as Hegelian Dialectics. This is the process called "praxis" used by transnational socialism to dupe populations into succumbing to the endgame of their control.
3/ The original thesis (pro-globalization) is that the free movement of capital around the world led to factories closing in America and moving to China or Mexico. This made Americans worse off. But the capital accumulation in poorer countries raised their real wages.
4/ The global movement of capital required a narrative of free markets and free trade to convince westerners that this was good for us. Typically, this was regarded as a right wing, republican viewpoint: lower taxes, less regulation, and freer trade would yield the greater good.
5/ But once these policies began to take hold, the average working folks saw the factories in their home towns shutter and move to China. These well-paying goods-producing jobs were replaced by lower-paying service sector jobs.
6/ As the working class wondered where all the jobs went, and why they were working 3 part time service jobs as opposed to a decent factory job, this created angst, and the Democrats were keen on honing in on this suppressed outrage.
7/ So on the domestic front, the people in the rust-belt "flyover country" saw their livelihoods vanish as factories closed down and moved to China. So what's a person to do? Move to the city? Go in debt to go to college? Why not join the military? At least it's steady work.
8/ Imagine you are 18 years old on September 10, 2001, wondering if you should go to college. The next day, the world changes. Caught up in the momentum of it all, you enlist and complete tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. You see things that make you wonder if maybe we were lied to.
9/ Ten years later, you lose 5 of your best friends to an IED outside Baghdad. The cheap, Chinese steel armor plates did not deflect the blast as intended. Those plates used to be made by a steel factory in hour hometown. Imagine that. americanmanufacturing.org/blog/entry/ame…
10/ The thesis you were sold on was that globalization of trade was supposed to be good for all. Decreased trade barriers would benefit us through gains from trade. The factory closing down in your home town was but a short term sacrifice for long term gain. Or so you believed.
11/ You didn't realize it then, but looking back on it, this was your first #redpill - while globalization lowered the cost of goods, it became apparent that quality control was not maintained, and lives were lost because of it. shanghaiscrap.com/2008/03/avoid-…
12/ On September 11, 2001, when the Twin Towers fell, so did a monument to globalization. We were told to get out and shop, or the terrorists won. Even with our stagnating wages, we financed new SUV's using Home Equity Lines of Credit.
13/ The rise of the Subprime Economy was a convenient way to offset the damage caused when the dotcom bubble popped. Access to cheap credit was an easy way to mask the widening gap between rich and poor. The good times eventually came to an end in 2008.
14/ I would argue that the election of Barack Hussein Obama was the key inflection point when anti-globalization moved from being a left wing initiative, towards becoming a cause championed by those on the right.
15/ Not only was he the first black president, he was literally a global citizen with ties to Kenya, Indonesia and plenty of friends in Pakistan. America elected a globalist among globalists, thinking that a former community organizer had a better grasp of their angst.
16/ So globalist philosophy became part of the political and cultural establishment in America, and various businesses, media, lobbying groups became courtiers benefiting from the false song of globalism. If you don't believe me, here's a decent example...
17/ Go back in time and research the "Battle of Seattle", or the 1999 WTO Protests. Generally, this is regarded to be a fairly organic, spontaneous era of anti-globalization that did not have any corporate backers (aka Soros). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seat…
18/ Since 2008, various financiers have realized the benefits that come from social destablization (cough cough Soros cough). Using color revolutions and protests is a much more humane way to destabilize a country's currency than using bombs and guns.
19/ For example, if you already believe 9/11, Iraq and Afghanistan were based on lies, it's easy to swallow the #redpill that all wars are resource wars between competing factions of the transnational elites, and we are but pawns in their global game of chess.
20/ We bomb other countries in the name of democracy and freedom. Think of the irony of a Hello Kitty machine gun. Cute and niceness masking deadly carnage. When our troops have given the best years of their youth, they live on the streets, suffering mental and physical wounds.
21/ When most of us think of capitalism, we think of the Adam Smith variety - free, virtuous people benefiting from trade, specialization of labor, mechanization and increasing capital density. The globalist form of capitalism, however, is a mutant variety.
22/ It relies on securing domain over resources through destabilization, either through war, psychological operations or weaponized social revolutions. If you want a #redpill on this topic, start here:
23/ The trouble with the thesis of globalization is that it creates its own antithesis of tribalism. As outlined in his book, Jihad vs McWorld, Benjamin Barber points out that globalization makes close-knit societies feel threatened. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad_vs.…
24/ So even if your country is not being bombed in the name of democracy, freedom, Coke and Levis, globalization will create tensions in any society, and people will retreat into tribal identities. This tension creates a synthesis, and that synthesis looks like...
25/ Identity politics. This is the synthesis produced by the tensions between a failed thesis of free trade globalization versus long-standing cultural norms, practices, beliefs and other systems of control. The strongest barrier to globalization is nationalism.
26/ In its previous incarnation, the Democrat Party had something to offer people losing their factories and jobs: a social safety net. As production was offshored, the left was very much aligned with labor, especially unionized labor.
27/ Don't get me wrong - I am not opposed to unions in general because if capital can pool itself into publicly traded corporations in order to manage risk, labor ought to be able to do the same in order to act as a countervailing force.
28/ From the Democrat perspective, with all the factories closing, union members out of work, and the economy increasingly shifting from goods production to a (non-union) service-based economy, the forces of big labor were not strong enough alone to prop up the Dems.
29/ The Democrats, armed with food stamps, health care and Obama phones, went forth to the electorate, promising a chicken in every pot in exchange for votes, and this literally became their brand: getting enough people to vote for themselves a largesse from the public purse.
30/ It was so blatant that Obama (a community organizer remember), was accused of implementing the Cloward-Piven strategy to literally overload the economic system to the point of collapse.
31/ So one way of looking at it is that the Dems are currently being used by the globalists to advance a type of Cloward-piven strategy of open borders. Resettling immigrants without proper vetting into Republican counties and states in order to influence vote outcomes.
32/ A similar long-term plan is underway in the EU. If you haven't heard of the Kalergi Plan, you should read up on it. It's the use of weaponized migration to dilute the indigenous peoples of Europe in order to bring about a mulatto ethnic state. themillenniumreport.com/2018/01/kalerg…
33/ In 2016, a seemingly high level insider appeared on 4han to drop some redpills in relation to the globalist end game, which is to bring about a "neo-homogeneous population of interchangeable human producer/consumer units".
34/ If you want to read it in full, I've posted a hi-res screen cap from CosmeticsAnon here: imgur.com/a/AMgH5xC
35/ I guess my answer to Tim's question is that the left sees open borders as a means to weaponize migration against nationalists, increase voter counts in key regions and find new groups to play identity politics. Also, the Dem hold on the black pop'n is slipping. /end
