Wow....... My belief pretty much exactly
China, China, China......... woe is us.
But before there was Japan and then Taiwan and then South Korea and even Europe.
The plain fact is that the USA was unable to manufacture say paint brushes at a cost allowing to sell them at a competitive price. I have inside knowledge that the paint brushes manufactured by a large American company were assembled on machines produced by an Italian company. I saw them and had long discussions with the American engineer who was tasked with setting them up in the new facility built in China.
China has succeeded because they have a lot of very good and well educated people. If there were no China, manufacturing would have moved elsewhere to locate where production could produce at a competitive price.
Why for instance is there not more manufacturing in Mexico? Mexico had the same opportunity to steal American jobs but did not. Mexican manufacturing is US manufacturing moved south. The Mexicans do not have the innate talent to do it themselves whereas the Japanese and Taiwanese and CHINESE do
But before there was Japan and then Taiwan and then South Korea and even Europe.
But we used that strength and innoation to win WWII and rebuild the rest of the world. Now they compete directly with us and they are kinda doing it to us. The US is no longer the freedom powerhouse it used to be. Nor is it the efficiency powerhouse it was. We were, but we squandered it.
And here we are. Elections have consequences. We are not the country we were 200, 100 or even 50 years ago. It’s gonna leave a mark, just like it did to England. Nobody stays on top forever. As a nation we left the ideas that made us great, and we are going to suffer the consequences, just like ancient Rome did.
Have you talked to any americans since this pandemic started? Have you been cancelled at all? I wish it wasn’t this way. I really do. But I refuse to turn a blind eye to what has happened to our nation and our culture.