Respect for values used

Respect for values used to be established only after harsh experiences. After the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt realized that everyone had to live well in order to consume and that the economy would work. Recognizing that, he introduced a social security system and expanded mortgage loans. There was also a recognition that rules and legal order were important in the capital market, and the SEC and FDIC, financial supervisory bodies, were formed. The Federal Reserve System (Fed) was also formed through a consensus between the ruling and opposition parties after the 1913 financial crisis. However, the international community committed all sorts of unethical and illegal activities to get out of the shadow of the Great Depression. With the idea that my country only had to live well, I raised barriers to tariffs and non-tariff trade, and tried to invade other countries to take away and colonize them. As a result, Europe collapsed, communism entered Eastern Europe, and the United States participated in the war, causing tremendous human damage. The war ended only after millions of Jews were killed and atomic bombs fell on Japan.

After tasting such a living hell, Western democracies adopted the Bretton Woods system, which pushed for the GATT system to lower tariffs and recognized the U.S. dollar as their key currency as a means to all live well together. The U.S. also supported its allies in Japan and Germany to counter the communist bloc. However, as Germany and Japan grew older, they changed their minds. They hit tariffs and weakened semiconductors. Wall Street implemented NAFTA to make money and invested in China without hesitation. Still, they firmly believed in democratic values. The value of the democratic alliance did not falter significantly after World War II, in which international law should be observed and human rights should be guaranteed. Of course, all this was before Trump. Businessmen are inherently weak in ethics. They are strong in profits. Practicality, efficiency, and net profit are more important than values, equity, and justice. If money is enough, it will go to hell. The extreme example of such a person is Trump and Musk. They are destroying all kinds of democratic values by joining hands to increase synergy. Ukraine is taking the bullet as it is. The invisible effect is even greater.

Now, the U.S. is not an image of an advanced country that introduced religious freedom into its constitution for the first time, established a democratic system that recognized women’s suffrage, and exported human rights. If it helps its country, it will become an unscrupulous country that sells its allies and trades with dictators. The invisible loss that a fall in image will bring is even greater. The price should not lead to another world war-like hell. The U.S. should not forget its memory of making concessions one by one to Hitler and leading to the invasion of Poland and the world war.