Actually that’s not true. Over 50% of Americans DO own stock (largely thanks to 401Ks and IRAs):
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2015/06/17/americans-still-spooked-over-stocks-financial-crisis/
And you don’t have to go to college to have a good non-manufacturing job. And again, the manufacturing jobs are NEVER coming back, with or without the factories. The factories are automated, the people are unnecessary.
I never said anything about wanting open trade. That’s where your addiction to flame wars come in. I’m simply pointing out the plainly obvious flaws in your logic. I see trade as the weather, it’s going to happen whether you like it or not, you actually have no control over it, neither does the government, all you can really do is put yourself in a position to benefit from it. And in order to do that you need to understand what’s going on.
Again, businesses do not move production offshore because they’re mean, or traitors, or any of the other reasons you think they do. They move production offshore because it’s the right decision. And there are many many reasons to move offshore. And most of them we can’t do anything about. They’re just how it is. Like it being dry in the desert, it’s just how things go. You can either understand it and don’t tie yourself to the wrong parts of the economy, or you can rail against the wind.
The only people who lie about Smoot-Hawley are protectionist. It was an abject failure by ALL measures.
What you are saying America is dead and socialism is a forgone conclusion. Is your last name Marx? Your type is done. To the dustbin of history with your ilk.
Go Trump go!