“That has NOTHING to do with offshoring. Your brain is miswired. You try to paint protectionism as somehow anti productivity and anti technology. What a crock of sh!t.”
It has everything to do with the decline in the percentage of Americans who work in manufacturing. The percentage of American workers in manufacturing began to decline in 1950. That was a long time before ‘offshoring’, NAFTA, etc.
If we are going to protect jobs from offshoring, why shouldn’t we protect them from productivity increases or technology changes?
You are going for linkage that isn't there. Grasping at straws. Liberals do that.