So we should continue on our current path, which will eventually lead to national ruin?... (or not so eventually, might only be a decade or so)
Seriously.
“Free trade” caused this mess. Every bit of it. Our factories are gone. Our skills are gone. Our jobs are gone. Reagan Democrats have abandoned the GOP, leading to a massive socialist takeover in America.
We’re increasingly broke. Industrially incapable. Unemployed. And losing all our useful technical skills.
Why do you suppose that is?... (asking rhetorically)
It’s not complicated: We sent them to China!
The GOP needs to become like Duncan Hunter. Aware of, and protective of, American STRENGTH.
Firing millions of Americans to spend what (used) to be our national wealth - to buy cheap crap from China, does not make America stronger.
Shut down imports.
Bring the factories back here.
Just do it. We have no other choice than to take a stand, which will not lead to inevitable eventual national collapse.
The current situation is leading just one way: toward strategic disaster.
I’m generally pro-free trade (granting what we have now doesn’t qualify). You make a strong argument, several really, to the contrary.
Let’s not forget, too, one of the main blocks to more manufacturing at home: Environuts who also own the donks. So the donks cannot improve mfg here, and they also must bow at the union altar, leaving “strategic disaster” as you aptly call it the inevitable outcome.