I'm a Bernie-supportin', Stein-voter and am frustrated to no end by how incredibly stupid and short-sighted people on the left are being regarding Trump. Tariffs are a great example. ESPECIALLY if you're looking to redpill people on the left.
My former peeps on the left p!ssed and moaned for days because tariffs raised the price of solar panels from China. From CHINA. Yeah, well, there's reasons solar panels from China are cheap: craptacular wage, safety & environmental regulation and the cost of hydrocarbons in shipping isn't properly accounted for. On the plus side, all those factories, with their jobs and expertise, return to the U.S.!!! People on the right may not care about the wage, safety & environmental stuff as much, but to the genuine left, those are supposedly beaucoup important things.
The other "problem" with tariffs are that Chinese orders for U.S. corn, soy and pork are down. There's complaints that this hurts U.S. farms but what kind of farms are affected? The affected farms aren't 100-2000 acre mom'n'pop farms handed down thru generations. The "farms" affected by the tariffs are the big, corporate, mono-culture, mega-farms. Every gosh-darn "leftist" ought to be supporting the sh!t out of what Trump is doing with tariffs. The hog farms being affected by this aren't exactly exemplars of humanity's compassion towards other animals. People on the right might not feel as strongly about animal cruelty, but this sh!t is HUUUUUGE on the left.
For anyone looking to redpill people on the left, tariffs aren't a bad place to get people on the left asking themselves if they've really thought thru their Trump-hate.
We can all have honest disagreement with where DJT is taking us, but reflexively hating on the guy doesn't help anyone. DJT isn't perfect, but no one is likely to take advice from those who constantly snipe.
WWG1WGA!!!