"Economics" was never *really* central to politics because all the left's "arguments" were transparently false and the libertarians were obviously correct. The left just manipulated procedural outcomes by pretending to be a neutral arbiter that was not convinced.
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Not all libertarians realized this.
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Is the timing a coincidence when the post 90's is when the drift towards Chinese manufacturing began? The Libertarians cucked themselves, all those years arguing against state control of the economy and they decided to let a foreign power run by communists produce for them.
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That is not to say China is a planned economy, in fact in many metrics you have more economic freedom, but the CCP ultimately call the shots and they have pictures of Karl Marx, Lenin and Mao in their offices.
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CCP owns the country like a sovereign. An intellectual failing of libertarians is not understanding the distinction between sovereign property and property under a sovereign. That said, manufacturing didn't exactly move to China - it was chased out of the US and allowed there.
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Allowed there due to a foolish libertarian meme known as "free trade". Libertarians made an enemy of protectionism and did everything they could to destroy it which ultimately benefited leftists in the end. I guess another aspect was Globalists wanting their fingers on China
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No, it was allowed in China because CCP respected property rights of their subjects so they spent resources to build manufacturing capacity. USG is run by religious fanatics who hate the idea of manufacturing so they undermined it by destroying the order it needed to exist.
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All "free trade" did was allow Americans to continue enjoying industrial products. If it didn't exist all of the US would be like CA residents with electric power. Progs didn't *move* power generation out of CA, they shut it down where they have (political) power. Same for mfg
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NAFTA was enacted by H.W. Bush, China's ascension to WTO was done by Clinton and G.W. Bush. Plenty of Republicans were free trade fanatics until the advent of Trump. I'm confident they weren't doing it out of progressive beliefs. The prog egregore took advantage of libertarian
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to serve itself, however, the idea that America needed it due to prog outright domination is wrong, as prog domination is only somewhat novel. Remember the 90's were the crime wave where Democrats had to imprison the "superpredators".
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Similar situation with CA and electric power generation. Progs dominated and so made it impossible to generate power in CA. Other states are not as prog dominated and so sold power to CA. The cause of CA not generating power isn't that they're allowed to buy power from others.
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It is, because only a collapse from a lack of power would cause regime change from permanent prog rule. So Republicans by endorse free trade, ensuring their own defeat by their enemies surviving.
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