The four-letter word supporters of free trade never utter: DEBT

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6. You basically supported my argument

without even knowing it.

"Finally, the "strong wages and strong job security" era was not due to factory jobs, but government intervention into the labor markets which forced companies to bargain with labor."

It has been the trade deals which took the knees out from underneath private unions in the first place. One of the primary goals behind all post-1975 "trade" deals has been to destroy the power of the private union sector and its collective bargaining power. The "government intervention in the labor markets" you think you're referring to was actually the trade deals, designed to cut labor off at the knees.

Everything else you say is basically Davos globalist apologetics.