> As a taxpayer I'm tired of funding everyone's project.

Some Americans took a hard look at the state of America as the world's leader in science, technology, and industry, with a ton of cutting-edge research attracting the smartest from all over the world, and decided "This sucks, can we go back to the simpler times where everyone had a factory job and they all looked and spoke like me?"

...And they might just get their wish, from how it looks.

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danaris 3 hours ago | parent [-]

No, they absolutely will not.

Those factory jobs are, to a first approximation, gone for good. Either they are being done by humans in other countries that not only have a cost of living less than 1/5 of ours, but also have massive supply and logistics chains built up to support them, or they have been automated. Sure, there will be a few much-ballyhooed factories built and staffed, but compared to the period after WWII, which is what most of them are thinking of, it's going to be less than a drop in the bucket.

And, for the vast majority of people, that's an unalloyed good. Factory jobs are hard on the body. Office work may have less of a nationalist mythos built up around it, but it's genuinely better for most people.

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yongjik 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Ehh... I was just making a crass joke that MAGA might end up making America so poor that Americans would be willing to work for terrible factory jobs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

	▲	saltcured an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If you replaced "factory" with "covert drug lab" in your joke, would it get the point across? Or will someone explain that those jobs, too, are a thing of the past...
	▲	mindslight 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That just seems like the straightforward maggot plan though, once you read past the marketing hopium? Assuming our new Chinese owners will be willing to let us have factories, of course.