I was so inspired listening to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who stood before global leaders in Munich last week. He declared that “de-industrialization was not inevitable” but “a conscious policy choice,” and voiced a grievance long felt across America’s factory towns and working communities. Plants did not simply vanish. Supply chains did not drift overseas by accident. As Rubio put it, it was “a decades-long economic undertaking that stripped our nations of their wealth, of their productive capacity and of their independence.” This is another example of why politics is important to talk about. It may be unpopular or hard to have those conversations, but it’s important. If people are ignorant of politics, policies, economics, etc., then they are easier to control. It's
