Whose great idea was it to export all fabrication and manufacturing to authoritarian places where wage slaver-oh, right... the neo-liberals and conservatives...

Why, I can remember it like it was yesterday (like it was yesterday... like it was yesterday... yesterday - yesterday...)

flashback to the 1950s

Factory owners: "No, we don't want to give you a living wage! You don't deserve it, despite working your asses off!! Think of the shareholders, you selfish bastards! I have it on good authority that this Mao guy might change with time, and also has dirt cheap slave labour. Sayonara, suckers, and Ni-how, China! That okay with you politicians, that we move all the wealth we made here over to an authoritarian nation so we can exploit the hell out it's people?"

1950s liberals/conservatives: "Oh hell yeah! We're all about that exploitation, didn't you know? Get the bag, king"

end of flashback

Current day liberals/conservatives: "WE HAVE TO BRING MANUFACTURING AND FABRICATION BACK BY SANCTIONING THE SHIT OUT OF CHINA!!!"

Factory owners: 你们为什么从我的

Western oligarchs: "Oh yeah, shit, we totally gotta build factories now that we can't exploit the Chinese anymore. Why we're regular patriots and job creators. Please furnish us with subsidies so that the tax payer can socialise our private gains. You'll probably have to build statues of us."

I hate them all, so very much, with every fiber of my being, except for the Chinese factory owners, because they got kids to feed.