Tariffs will destroy us.

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Russia may want to conquer us politically, but China has already conquered us in the marketplace. Look at all the things you use. I bet a majority of them are made in China. If China cut off exports to the US the few things left on the shelves would be sold for hundreds of dollars.

It goes to show how ridiculous the promise to bring back American manufacturing is. We can’t make many of the things we import from China, and because of our wages (which honestly should be higher) would make prices prohibitively expensive, especially for us normal people.

We cannot exist isolated from the rest of the world. In the tech world, look how many components are produced in Viet Nam. In fashion, Indonesia makes our clothes. Mexico provides much of our produce.

On our own, cut off from the rest of the world, we couldn’t exist.