I think they're related up to the last point which is so much more complicated.
The right wing in the US is bifurcated between the rich who do like limits on trade barriers (at least where its advantageous to them!) and the vast majority of conservatives who are basically isolationists (see Patrick Buchannan, Ross Perot, etc.) who at the more extreme are out there looking for black helicopters and expecting to vanquish "One-World Government."
Why this latter group keeps thinking that GWBush is the messiah, I don't think I'll ever figure out: his daddy's on the Trilateral Commission, and even GW wants to open the borders to keep labor suppressed, and of course anything to do with giving his oil buddies a free ride is just peachy!
Now as I said, support for globalism is limited even among the rich, witness the Farm Bill, which is billed as supporting "family farmers" when 90% of farming in the US is done by gigantic conglomerates who really don't need the subsidies, but if it fattens their bottom line and they can scream down any opponents as "hating god-fearing, hard-working, flag-waving farmers" they'll do it. And don't you dare talk about putting limits on those subsidies to Big-Agra, because that would be "unfair" and "un-American."
The problem with this is that other countries see this, see hypocracy and retaliate, which works *against* globalism.
Personally I see a big swing back to good ol' Populism, and while Mr. Gore still walks around like he's got a long pointy object in his posterior, he's still a latter day Upton Sinclair. And take a look at Lou Dobbs, CNN muckraker who's being pinned as an anti-immigrant conservative (his wife is Mexican!), when he's actually a raving-looney populist/internationalist.
Just a small warning: Doomsayers are usually wrong. Assuming there are no countervailing forces is dangerous, and is kind of offensive when you think about it. Do you really want to assume that everyone is stupider than you and go out and yell it at the top of your lungs?
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls,
Buffy
