I would say strongly, yes.
The reason in China. More precisely the Peoples Republic of China. A communist nation, with about four times our population.
Our “commercial class” has totally embraced China and has now grown it, to a system larger than our own.
Stop and think about that for a moment. China, where most everything for sale in most stores now, is made. Is communist, still.
Do you suppose they just magically because so competent?
No, American companies sold out. Fired Americans, And sent the jobs to China. Where now millions are working former American jobs. Our economy is in tatters. Yet we continue to import everything, and continue to fire Americans.
And the number of needy Democrats increases constantly.
Yes. We have played a part in our own decline.
Bigtime.
Thats a pretty brain dead post.
American companies did not “sell out”. They were thrown out on their asses through skyrocketing regulatory expenses.
Many of us who worked in industry were explaining what was going to happen decades ago, and it has played out as predicted.
"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."
(Adage often erroneously attributed to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin)