Update: First they took the manufacturing jobs and I didn't complain

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38. Its not actually in direct conflict

you are reading it as protectionistic
While I've been pro-union since my first job in the 80s,
I'm writing it from the perspective that we need to care about how our choices impact other people.

If you read more of my posts, I keep arguing that we should be understanding that people of good character can make different decisions.

I've been pro-union, pro-environment, pro-tolerance, anti-poverty my entire life.
I'm also concerned about the state of people in other countries....
My reading on international trade is that it helps alleviate poverty, especially for women.
Women are beginning to emerge from being chattel and a burden to their families to be sold into marriage slavery into people who have their own worth.

I don't diminish the suffering in the USA.
But I also don't overlook the suffering in other parts of the world.