You cannot ignore the role of unions in destroying the US Steel and Auto industries. They were front and center. When we were the post WW II powerhouse with an intact infrastructure, we could pay those high union wages. When the world rebuilt and rebounded with lower cost labor and we started importing lower-cost products, the US became less competitive.
What would you have done to fix that?
“when America’s steel industry started to collapse due to overseas competition.....”
“Politicians selling us out to China”.
Correct. It was actually due to politicians on both sides of the aisle selling us out to China. The Clintons and the Bushes sold out America for their own personal and financial gain. I cringe every time I see the clip of Bush speaking of the “new world order”.
But who needs jobs and industry? Those jobs are for losers right?