Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
Of course orderly global marketplaces don't just happen. They take leadership, and there's only one nations really capable of leading it, and one that I (mostly)trust to lead it, and that's us.

The people who control America's marketplace gutted its manufacturing base and sold it to the low (wages) bidder.

They looked at what had been built in America following WW2 and saw it as something to harvest.