Maybe we are arguing at cross purposes. Can you give me a clarifying definition of America First?
I think perhaps our difference isn’t so much how we view America, but how we view China.
Throughout American history, we have when necessary faced and overcome foreign rivals which have made the mistake of tangling tangled with America. It has made us confident - and naive.
We seem to have concluded those victories have been a result of our American-ness. That we’re somehow magic. Smarter. More capable. More industrious.
Well when I go into (any) store now - I see we don’t seem to be smarter. Or more capable. Or more industrious.
We seem to have become incredibly foolish, and lazy. Squandering history’s most incredible manufacturing base - for short term gain.
China has a 5000 year history of martial strategic planning, and a population which is young, ambitious, capable and frankly, more than a bit like that of Germany before WWII. Except China is (infinitely) more powerful than was Germany.
China now owns, operates and profits from what used to be the “arsenal of Democracy”. America’s once historic manufacturing base.
We *gave* it to them.
China is now in a position to use that manufacturing base - which was the power of the sleeping giant, which Isoroku Yamamoto once referred to.
However China wishes. Even, if they decide - against us.
And Republicans are all for that??
Then Republicans are on the wrong side. And completely blind to the real issue.
Giving away America’s sovereignty and our real power - our manufacturing and technical abilities and our workforce. To a communist nation 4 times our population.
As long as we are making live difficult for unions.
Yes. I’d say we’re arguing at cross purposes.