In a recent article from the Wall Street Journal, a new poll suggests that we’re starting to see a large-scale shift in socioeconomic thinking in the United States.

John Harwood writes:

By a nearly two-to-one margin, Republican voters believe free trade is bad for the U.S. economy, a shift in opinion that mirrors Democratic views and suggests trade deals could face high hurdles under a new president.

The sign of broadening resistance to globalization came in a new Wall Street Journal-NBC News Poll that showed a fraying of Republican Party orthodoxy on the economy. While 60% of respondents said they want the next president and Congress to continue cutting taxes, 32% said it’s time for some tax increases on the wealthiest Americans to reduce the budget deficit and pay for health care.

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There are three companies who, because their businesses are web-based, seem to believe that they are above having to provide telephone numbers their customers can use to contact them in an effort to resolve disputes which would otherwise be left to the ineptitude of outsourced assembly-line email workers who have untold numbers of canned responses they can throw at you, with the Internet coming between them and any need to have compassion in their fellow human beings.

These companies are Amazon.com, eBay, and PayPal, and they can’t hide anymore.

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