• BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 days ago

    The charitable reading of this is that 55% of Americans want to bring back manufacturing for the benefit of other people who might benefit, even though they don’t believe they need such a job themselves.

    Americans have done absolutely nothing to earn a charitable reading.

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      I think proles know deep down somewhere subconsciously that there was more bargaining power and a stronger position for their class when manufacturing and heavy industry was domestic. They know at some sort of level that globalisation and offshoring of this harmed them, they can’t articulate why precisely but they know that it was better with it than it has been without it.