I don’t disagree.
What you said is a given, and is somewhat of a chicken-egg conundrum.
What it boils down to is...when will things get so bad that people are going to give up the concept of the government being the provider, and understand that prosperity can only come from taking responsibility for yourself and providing for your own.
It is only when people will understand that their own self-earned wealth is far more satisfying, substantial and trustworthy than any promises of bread crusts (to be “granted” to them) made by politicians raking in their own tainted riches, that change will come about.
Otherwise, the people who predicted the “tipping point” where more people take from the system than give to it will be proven correct.
The problem in America right now, is that cheaper manufacturing can be done in China.
Much cheaper in fact.
If that was the only consideration, I would not argue against simply sending our industry to another country.
There is however a VERY BIG problem with that. Not only does that send away American wealth, perhaps more important it makes our most significant global competitor stronger.
Remember please that China has several times (and several times again) America’s population.
All the massive amount of industry we have already sent to China is building up that country very very rapidly.
China is now second in the entire globe. Rapidly gaining on us.
That is the part of all of this, which it doesn’t appear anyone is thinking about.
At some point given current trends, China catches and passes America.
China becomes the number one, undisputed world champion.
Then what?
We will STILL be buying all of our stuff from China, and they will simply zoom past America and just take over.
That is what nobody seems to be paying attention to.
Not democrats. Not the GOP.
Nobody is looking 5 years or 10 years down the road, with American making nothing, with China exporting billions of dollars of stuff into America, but now China is on top of the heap.
That is what I am talking about.
China could pass up by. (very rapidly I believe)
Then what?
Nobody in either party is paying a bit of attention to that.
It is a very real, very important question.
Who will support America?