Imagine European colonial powers circa 1900 complaining about being exploited by their colonies 
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It's mind-blowing that part of the US public believes America is being "exploited" by the rest of the world, or that globalization is a plot against America... The US has been the main architect of globalization, and has always been its primary beneficiary. And it still is.
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"oh no, we've spent 70 years creating a world order where we're in charge, and we've become the richest country in the world as a result, we've been had!"
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To clear up, given the replies I'm getting: the narrative I'm talking about isn't "globalization has had serious downsides for some people in the US" (of course it has). It's literally "globalization is a foreign plot in which the US, as a country, is being exploited"
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And yes, it's a narrative that is being pushed by representatives of the very elite that benefitted most from globalization -- certain billionaire politicians and millionaire news anchors -- not by disgruntled coal miners.
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I think the notion that US lost in globalization is not entirely without merit. Big corporations and investors (the “haves”) won big in globalization; the blue-collar working class (the “have-nots”) lost big. The net result: uneven wealth distro and political polarization.
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Throwing out or reversing globalization is not the the right answer. But the problems globalization has created are real.
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The benefits were not distributed among the populous , so the majority of people doesn't know that US is the main beneficiary
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Exactly. This is the first I've ever heard of the idea, and I read Fox News regularly!
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Engineering/IT is a special case, and even there it depends on only the "best and the brightest" getting visas, which is far from the case. Low-skill construction and meat-packing are very diff. Supply and demand, plus willingness to work in unsafe cond.
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