The "economic progress" of the USA in the past 2 decades has been fueled, in no small part, by cheap foreign labor. That labor has been subcontracted in sweatshops in foreign lands, and done by foreigners right here at home.
The end result has been the systematic destruction of much of what it meant to be American.
At least we had economic progress. To hell with the American culture.
Pubbies wanted the cheap labor for profit, and Dems wanted it for power. Who was looking out for those of us that love America? No one.
Sadly the few of us who ARE NOT sitting in the -unions are our enemies and coporations are or saviors RAH! RAH! section, or marching in the Republican good, Democrat bad sleepwalk lockstep are the only ones who see it.