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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does MAGA think Trump is going to be the one to push back on corporate greed? Are they seriously idiots?

The budget they passed mostly helps the corporations and the rich.  If MAGA really wanted an anti-establishment, anti-capitalist leader, they should vote for AOC or Bernie, and I don't support either.[/quote]

I don't know about corporate greed.  Washington has a lot more to do with greed than Wall Street.  You know who is making the rules. Wall Street is responding to Washington.

Oh, and if you think the GOP is the problem, you had three terms of Obama recently.  The global economy is moving forward. Are democrats? Hell no they aren't.[/quote]

Those "three terms of obama" are responsible for most of the job and GDP growth over the last 30 years, particularly given that both Bush's and trump left economic recession and dumpster fires that the "obama terms" had to fix. [b]Yes, the global economy us moving forward and it is happening without the USA[/b] if you have been paying any attention to trade agreements signed over the the past two months.[/quote]

This. Supporting the R isn’t going to course correct on this matter. They’ve never truly supported globalization. Building *everything* in the USA will be costly since most supply chains are fragmented and outsourced to global suppliers directly. Requiring certain non-negotiables related to our security, medical, weapons systems, etc. to be manufactured here? Yes, I see and appreciate the argument for it. However, we still need international diplomacy along the way - which is NOT happening right now.

I hope more people skew left even if only for policy and economic strength. We need to correct the imbalance. [/quote]

Building everything outside the USA leaves us utterly defenseless.  To save a few pennies, we offshore our national defense.  [b]A serious person understands tail risks and would never support such a naive policy[/b]. [/quote]

I’m glad to hear that you understand my concern, despite my appreciation for the argument. I dont think the solution is for everything to be built in house or out of house, but strategically with alliances who hold mutual risks and investment in an agreed upon strategy that would vary amongst different needs.

As it stands, Donald Trump, under his “America First” agenda, strongly advocates [b][u]reshoring[/u][/b] and building a wide range of industries domestically — especially military equipment, high-tech sectors, and medical/manufacturing infrastructure. He uses/has used tools like executive orders, tariffs, Defense Production powers, and infrastructure incentives to actively bring manufacturing formerly overseas back to the US.

IMO this creates security risks that I won’t outline here, but it also faces practical implementation constraints due to the time it would take to actually have a strong manufacturing component. And due to the imbalance of wealth and rising costs, its likely to be more expensive. There will be high labor costs, AI costs, global supply chain complexity, and legislative hurdles. It’s going to take a lot of time for a meager return.

Most impacted initially will be strategic sectors (military, AI/chips, pharma), not blanket domesticization of all consumer goods.

The L could educate voters about things like this, helping people understand causation/correlation and what their vote supports/restricts in simple terms. [/quote]

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