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Exactly. The lack of junk from overseas may be painful but it's the wakeup call we need. America can and should be protectionist and buy American. We've been sold down the river.
Edit: Just realized this is a hexbear post. It explains the antagonistic meme responses. My mistake for posting here I know better.
why? So you can get something of worse quality for 5 times the price? Are you ever going to understand that 21st century globalization was designed for YOUR benefit so some sweatshop worker in SEA can make you a pair of sneakers for barely more than the cost of materials? Maybe if chuds like you opposed the international slaughter and oppression of ecological activists, labor unionists, and anti-imperialists the fucking coddled modern American "worker" (consumer) wouldn't feel like they're getting outcompeted by the rest of the world now. Get your shit together and realize a global proletarian revolution is in your best interest, before the armed guard drags you back into the coal mines.
I understand full well the bargain that was made after WW2. America trades it's useless paper slips for goods in countries with low or no regulations. As a result manufacturing etc was hollowed out. I didn't make that decision.
I still prefer a bronze age tier collapse over whatever "revolution" you're talking about where anyone who disagrees gets lined up and shot. The world will become multipolar and balkanize. It is a better path forward than the musings of the "marxist-leninists" on Lemmy. People have nationalities, religion, culture and want borders between them and the other. A 19th century political philosophy isn't doing to change that. It will just cause a lot of people to die.
The place I grew up in was right next to a border which is a river, during the summer me and my friends would sometimes swim to the other side to get an ice cream and a coke, now over there I could still speak in my mother tongue, they didn't have a different culture really they were pretty much the same as me and no one was mad that a few youths didn't care much that they crossed some imaginary line.
'Nationalities' and 'cultures' are often even younger than literally '19th century political philosophy' like the German empire didn't exist until 1871 so someone like Karl Marks wasn't German he was Prussian at least according to his nationality, France had to spend centuries to eliminate other languages and there's still pockets of speakers of different languages in it speaking Basque, Occitan and even Dutch, this is such an ignorant take that only a yank could come up with because you live in an actual wasteland and it's not even true for your own country you just never bothered to look further than the little kingdom that is your lawn in suburbia.