In 1789, sailors on HMS Bounty, which had been sent to carry breadfruit from Tahiti to the West Indies, grew tired of naval discipline. They mutinied against their commanding officer, Lt. William Bligh, set him adrift on the ship’s launch, and disappeared into the depths of the Pacific. Nine of…
In 1789, sailors on HMS Bounty, which had been sent to carry breadfruit from Tahiti to the West Indies, grew tired of naval discipline. They mutinied against their commanding officer, Lt. William Bligh, set him adrift on the ship’s launch, and disappeared into the depths of the Pacific. Nine of them, accompanied by 16 Tahitians, eventually found the uninhabited island of Pitcairn and set fire to the Bounty. Their descendants have lived on that rocky mound ever since.
Unsurprisingly, other countries are interested in joining. Costa Rica, Ecuador, Taiwan, and Uruguay have filed applications, and Thailand, Colombia, Indonesia, South Korea, and the Philippines are mulling membership. But, oddly, not the United States. But by the time she stood as a presidential candidate, Hillary had turned against the deal, matching Donald Trump with her protectionist rhetoric. Protectionism has always been superficially popular. Standing up for domestic producers sounds like common sense — though, in reality, it invariably serves to make poorer the country that adopts it.
If that logic holds true for Britain, most of whose people, not counting the 47 Pitcairners, obviously, live 8,000 miles away, how much more true is it of the U.S.?
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