The Killing of US Steel

[MeganC]

The right in the US will follow populism right off a cliff I think.

I'll take populism over socialism every time.

[Smokin Joe]

I'll take populism over socialism every time.

As long as it isn't populist socialism.

[MeganC]

As long as it isn't populist socialism.

Socialism is always popular until it's implemented.

[Hoodat]

I'll take populism over socialism every time.

I'll take a vibrant plant operating under a Japanese business model that has proven hugely superior to American manufacturing models over the last half a century and that keeps thousands of American workers employed with good paying jobs over a shortsighted strategy that ends up with shuttered plants.

I work here in America for a Japanese company that hasn't laid off a single worker in 50 years.  Can any American company say that?

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I'll take a vibrant plant operating under a Japanese business model that has proven hugely superior to American manufacturing models over the last half a century and that keeps thousands of American workers employed with good paying jobs over a shortsighted strategy that ends up with shuttered plants.

I work here in America for a Japanese company that hasn't laid off a single worker in 50 years.  Can any American company say that?

Yup. Merit > identity politics.