There seems to be something going wrong in the Anglo countries to be facing such ongoing shortages.
It wasn't always this way. Walmart used to proudly display banners with 'Made in America' on them.
But as companies left the county, the poor and then the middle class downsized as well.
Companies left looking to lower costs, the public was wooed with lower prices and the idea that you could get more now and the politicians made promises that the affected sectors would be retrained, first we would have a service economy then it became knowledge workers.
It turns out that the service economy is fickle and doesn't pay well for the most part. Not everyone can be a knowledge worker and that is not outsource proof either.
Now we are in a trap where companies can not return because they would have to raise their prices and reduce profits and the people who used to work for them can't afford to buy their products now.
This is the result of illberalism.
Interestingly, studies have found that goods sell for more when they say, for example, "Made in Detroit," as opposed to "Made in the USA."
That keynote is perfectly in line with American principles. It's frightening how homogenous our states have become, and how much power has been taken away from them.
No California and Californians generally don't. They didn't even at the height of their opposition to the Trump Administration. Perhaps unsurprisingly, since advocacy for California separatism was backed by the same foreign interests who intervened in US politics in favor of Trump.
> At least in principle they’re more pro-China than pro-US
This is likewise false.
> Tells you a lot
That you would say it tells me a lot, sure.
> This is likewise false.
Not the above commenter, but there are many, many people in SF that I've personally met who prefer China to the US. They have a disgust towards half of their own country who votes unlike the way they vote, towards anyone religious, towards anyone from a lower-class non-urban background.
I've met plenty of these people in LA and Santa Barbara as well, but in SF it easily feels like a majority.