Get ready for it: Another economic collapse is coming.

[Selatius]

38. The problem is unions have basically been kettled into the Northeast and West Coast.

In many inland states, right-to-work laws make unionization tremendously difficult because it creates freeloaders on the labor union itself. It's easier to decertify a union than it is to certify one in these states. This is a legacy of the Taft-Hartley Act. Prior to the passage of that law, roughly one out of every three workers in the US was unionized. Today, there's likely less than one out of ten who are in a union.

Another major difference between today and then was that the US did manufacturing in-house. The US had the industrial capacity to wage a global war because it had a manufacturing base large enough to produce goods for Americans, and it was easily converted towards war production. Today, we can't even manufacture consumer electronics without heavily relying upon China, a country that is basically a brutal military dictatorship.