Real median wages are flat or down in the US for the last 30 years.
You can talk about the theoretical upsides to global free trade all you want. I'm a believer. But 2 billion people jumped into the labor pool and the reality in the US is that they made a wave that drowned a lot of people. Real wages are depressed. That's not to say there's any real alternative to full open participation in the global market, but your free-market cheer and pom-poms don't capture the full reality from a US worker perspective.
I don't think you can blame globalization for that,
-technology has eliminated many jobs
-companies have become more efficient at "desklling" workers into more narrowly defined roles (and so paying lower wages)
if you want to attack free markets, why not go further and advocate barriers on inter-state commerce within the US.
You can talk about the theoretical upsides to global free trade all you want. I'm a believer. But 2 billion people jumped into the labor pool and the reality in the US is that they made a wave that drowned a lot of people. Real wages are depressed. That's not to say there's any real alternative to full open participation in the global market, but your free-market cheer and pom-poms don't capture the full reality from a US worker perspective.