I agree with you that globalization has caused and continues to cause changes which many are not prepared and/or don't want to face.   But change continues, whether we want it or not.  
I guess that I am most offended by those who know better, but insist on proposing to people that there is a magic way of fixing everything that ails us by transporting us all back to the 50s that live in people's imagination (because the real 50s left much to be desired).....