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No, they'll be shipped off to Asia where technology is embraced.

The rise of China due to hand-over-fist ceeding of power and influence fueled in equal parts by the right and left is so astonishing it'll certainly go down in the history books (written in Mandarin, of course).

Bonus points when the morons are doing so because they get all their political news from a Chinese platform. The [Americans] have gone insane.

The rise of China is due to the tyranny of the markets and the fact that firms laser-focused on quarterly growth buy and liquidate those trying to do responsible, sustained growth. Those that sold their factories were able to swallow domestic competitors who didn’t do so.

The political system just does whatever the captains of industry tell them to do.

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