What’s conservative is what’s based in liberty. What’s liberal is big government statism. What is driving money and/or jobs overseas’s is our big government reducing the liberty of anyone trying to create jobs; see Boeing and the National Labor Relations Board.
If we roll back taxes and regulations and forced unionization and frivolous law suits and other artificial liberal things that make American unattractive to business, then money and business would flood back in because without the liberalism, America is the best place on the planet to run a business.
It’s the liberalism that makes it otherwise.
“What’s conservative is what’s based in liberty. “
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Actually that is libertarianism.
I happen to be a small-l libertarian, which makes it even more puzzling to me, why so many otherwise brilliant, flag-waving SOBs on our side see nothing whatsoever wrong-headed with making the largest communist nation in world history - strong and powerful by sending them our once world leading industrial base.
Seems a bit like the medieval practice of “bleeding”.
Killing the patient, with the erstwhile treatment itself.
“Free trade” is national suicide. Whatever you may or may not think about unions - destroying America herself in a boneheaded tactic to damage unions, is just plain stupid.
Hate to pick nits, but what’s ‘conservative’ is what’s in the Constitution. The power to raise tariffs is in there.
I believe the poster hit the nail on the head. Too many on our side of the aisle willing to pull the entire works down around us trying to get back at the unions. The unions, meanwhile have only become more powerful by burrowing into the public sector.
Classic case of cutting off our nose to spite our face. We’ll need an economy to rebuild at some point.