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Editor's note: Capital in that context is spelled with a capital 'C'. Lower case denotes physical capital like factories and equipment, etc.
I like capitalism and think it's a good system, if balanced with protection for labor.
We basically need to get back to producing
There is no point in forcing a $15/hr minimum wage along with expensive (however needed) pollution and safety restrictions when the factory can bypass these rules by building in China.
Democrats once represented the working class. Not any more
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama helped shift power away from the people towards corporations. It was this that created an opening for Donald Trump
It's good for the Chinese and for US stockholders, but there is a time limit on those benefits. Once the US working class is impoverished to the point where they can no longer buy Chinese goods, the game is over and we are left with a smoking ruin while the Chinese have all the manufacturing ability.I believe the hope was that opening up to China would allow their country to grow, flourish, and eventually join Western-style governance and trade. Japan successfully transitioned through that phase after WW2. Unfortunately, after 40 years of Western countries sacrificing to "bring it along," it seems that China took all the one-sided help from the rest of the world and has no intention of living up to our expectations and its agreements. It might be possible that other presidents have seen this problem, but Trump is the first one to stand up and try to do something about it. At the moment, that fight is at a standstill waiting for the outcome of the election, but if Biden takes over, it'll go back to the usual sell-out of the USA's future.
STILL, a lot of secondary and tertiary support work for re-shored factories would generate more jobs here at home.
What would you do if your own party sold you out like the Democrats sold out labor?
Eric Holder saysFactories require more energy.
They require a lot less energy than they used to. That is also part of productivity increasing.
Rank and file political debate under the pseudo two party system.
Automan Empire saysWhat would Republicans
Fuck the Republicans. Vote for Trump.
He is a better Democrat that most Democrats by supporting labor, working to limit illegals and outsourcing to China.
Democrats are the party of the elite now, having taken massive bribes from Capital to divide Americans with social issues so that no one would talk about the real issues: the outsourcing of all manufacturing to China and the insourcing of tens of millions of illegals to drive down wages for labor yet further, and the endless wars to please weapons makers.
Trump is the only president in decades not to start a war, and the only one who will talk about the devastation that Democrats have imposed by their betrayal of the working class.
What would you do if your own party sold you out like the Democrats sold out labor? Of course you'd elect someone like Trump.
Trump is the Democrats' own bad karma come back to bite them on the ass, and it was more than justified.
When the media is on your side, you're not the resistance - you're the establishment.