You’re 100% right. We fought Vietnam with one arm tied behind our back, and it was the same after 1975 for the economy. They PURPOSLY did all the bad things to us. In my view the USA did not have its own Gov’t.
We always had someone elses gov’t. No gov’t would do to its OWN people that this one did since 1975. Even Ron Reagan ’81-’89 did NOTHING to stop outsourcing. He (they) even gave tax incentives deductions to buy imported machinery rather than domestic made machinery.
Hey, look, they won, we lost. So at this point in time, we have nothing left to lose, and the winners are finished, and being put into the “give back” mode now. Nothing left to win.