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Funny how American = European American, whereas everyone else needs a prefix in front of them.

It should be American = Native American, and everyone else should keep the prefix.

Republicans support businesses not workers. The people who own the businesses benefit.

Why do you think it's "Republicans" and not "Republicans & Democrats"?

Kinda silly, really.

Look around. Union membership is down to under 10% (from over 40%), wages are historically low, our "labor party" abandoned labor many decades ago. The New Deal is now very old and just about dead.

The few Made In America products with a 200% premium over the overseas competition I am aware of are not short on customers.

Of the many, many, many, "66% off from the factory" overseas products out there, almost none reach American retail shelves without a markup that gets them within 25% of the price of their "locally"-produced counterparts.

Your "certain companies" set-up those consumers to fail, in order to convince share-holders that their brands wouldn't suffer from off-shoring production.

You should try being more selective with your sources.

One challenge is that the lifestyle that people have come to expect is only affordable by outsourcing production to other countries for slave labour prices.

People want 7 pairs of running shoes, to own every kitchen and garage gadget possible, and to buy little items as pick-me-ups every few weeks. There would be an outcry at children picking our food for 3 cents a day or indentured servants making our clothes if it were visible, but these services are shipped far enough away that most people can just smile and enjoy their new $30 shoes without seeing the abuse. And if you tell them about it, they say they are poor too, which is the equivalent of covering your ears and screaming “la la la la la” to avoid processing it.

This maybe flew over my head. Is Orange man Epstein class?

I am guessing they're orange to hint that they're MAGA.

And now, then, I think this may shock you, but there is a fourth consumer class, and they're a bigger class than you might think. They don't think about whether a product makes them feel good. They don't think about whether a specific product is at a low price. Even if they're poor, they don't think about budgets, and they tend to be heavily in credit card debt. These people's defining characteristic is that they don't think much about anything. They simply choose some authority figure to tell them how to live and then they do whatever they're told to do. They may occasionally spout out a bit of propaganda out of nowhere, but importantly, they have never once deeply thought about it themselves. They lack even the basic mental tools to think about it.

When challenged, they'll just say some other bit of propaganda, or they'll get angry, but they'll obstinately refuse to think even the tiniest bit for themselves. They have what is called an authoritarian personality, "characterized by a disposition to treat the voice of authority figures with unquestioning obedience and respect." If you look at the Wikipedia article, you'll see there is a high correlation between having an authoritarian personality and being poorly educated or being religious (especially being an Evangelical Protestant).

Now, then back to the question about the comic. It is impossible to tell whether the orange man is Epstein class or whether he's simply a mindless MAGA drone with an authoritarian personality, because they say the exact same things. One says it because they're evil, and one says it because they refuse to question anything that the evil people say.

I mean I'd have to say, it is a sizable portion of americans. IE the whole selling point of tarrifs is to encourage manufacturing and jobs to move over here. There certainly is a significant amount of overlap between people that want more manufacturing in america that also widely want minimum wage to stay the same or even go down.

Now obviously this ven diagram isn't a circle, there's plenty of people that do actually want products to be made by people making enough to live on, both not screwing over labor in the global south etc... or in the US.

I agree with your vibe, especially supporting local craftsmen. But buying American a bit more complicated than looking for the "Made in the USA" sticker.

Some "made in the USA" stuff is prison labor. These companies are profiting off of prisoners. It's better than slave/child labor overseas but it sucks all around.

Another aspect is that politics around the "Made in the USA" are merky. Final assembly can occur here in the US but it doesn't mean that it was "made" here.

I went into a deep dive a few years back and found that because of various loopholes, American branded cars are often made in Mexico and then "finished" in the US whereas most foreign brands are assembled in the US.

All of this to say: until we escape late stage capitalism, it's hard to know for sure how to best support Americans.

Hi !

Been there for a while :)

You mean like the blog/"study" quoted by another here to support the notion that USians won't actually pay more for local products? The one rigged, run and published by capitalists to justify off-shoring production?

Someone here is indeed quoting those capitalists, and its not the top-left stick-figure.

What’s really sad is that the only ones who support a living wage en masse are the Greens.

Socialist Party has been fighting for higher wages since the 1910s, you make them sad :(

Greens weren't a party until the 1970s

What demographic is the orange guy supposed to represent?

I'm a based patriot who wants to SUPPORT REAL AMERICANS

Sounds like MAGAT to me.