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The Trump administration has crafted a draft bill — ordered by the president — that would declare America's abandonment of World Trade Organization rules, according to Axios. The bill essentially provides President Donald Trump — who has argued for a better position for the U.S. in big trade pacts — a license to raise U.S. tariffs at will, without congressional consent and largely outside of the international rules governed by the WTO. The bill, titled the "United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act," would give Trump unilateral power to ignore the two most basic principles of the WTO and negotiate one-on-one with any country.
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'FART' Bill Indicates Trump's Intention to Dump WTO
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by AthanasiusKircher on Wednesday July 04 2018, @01:26AM
Sorry to disagree, but what you state is one possible implication of postmodernism, but certainly not the only one. I've known many academics in many field who would identify with the "postmodern" movement, and many of them believe strongly in relativism of various degrees. The most hardcore definitely believe constructs like "truth" and "logic" are merely products of one possible Western rationalist philosophy (particularly analytic philosophy), and "deconstructing" truth and even notions of single concepts of "fact" are very commonly accepted as part of the methodology for escaping the legacy of a narrow-minded perspective (often also characterized by such folks as Eurocentric, imperialist, and colonialist).
When I first encountered hardcore relativism in the academy a couple decades ago (and it was around for decades before that), I was worried about the implications, one of which was the deconstructing of truth that could ultimately be used by fascist political movements. Alas, the rhetoric and methodologies of the far left academics has now been appropriated by right-wing forces as we now have entered a "post-truth" era in broader culture... The vision of the late 60s deconstructionists has now finally come to fruition, just used for political purposes they never acknowledged could happen.