As nice as that sounds, it’s not realistic. Instead, we need to sign tons of trade pacts with other countries. Divert our resources to allies that won’t turn on us, even if we need to subsidize some of it in the short term.

Rather than denying the US our resources and markets, it’s far better and more concrete to sell what we have to someone else. The US is dependent on our resources to run their economy, but there’s plenty of countries that want them as well. If we can refine our base resources and sell them as valued added products, even better.

I don’t get whey we sell the US crude when we can refine it all ourselves. Alberta should really be asking why they only have oil workers and not any refiners. Nunavut should be asking why they sell raw diamonds instead of cutting them themselves. We already make and sell high quality steel, aluminum, and uranium. Why not do the same for all the other natural resources we sell? And then sell them to Europe or East Asia instead of the US?

Europe’s losing access to many of their raw material producers as well as natural gas. Southeast Asia is both short on energy as well as being the fastest growing new producer and markets. And East Asia will always need reliable energy and potash. And then all this applies to India as well, even if there’s some problems with their current government.

I hope this is sarcasm, because it is exactly this sort of thing that has been pushing the youth away from progressivism.

When people yell and scream that “you are bad, and should feel bad because of it”, most people just want to say FU and go towards anywhere but the place the yeller is a part of.

Much of the modern far right has been created by the far left, which is why so many Americans are freaking out that the president they voted for is doing the things they hate so much. Because it wasn’t about policy or ideals, it was about distancing themselves from the people that’s been yelling at them for a decade, saying that they’re bad people for things for simply existing.

If you follow worldwide trends, this actually matches anyways. It’s the youths that are voting far right the most, to the point that the occasional neo-nazi groups are almost entirely supported purely by the local youths.

BTW, I’m not blaming them for being frustrated and going to the extremes. These last two decades have been bad, and there’s little hope of it getting much better for the next decade either. Especially with how vocal the left has been lately, it’s no surprise that the youth that wants change would vote the exact opposite of those that have been yelling in their ears all their lives.

GenZ voting right is entirely the fault of the left. There hasn’t been a major rational voice in the left for so long, that the unheard right now sounds attractive for no more than being different.