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Originally Posted by Martinscholes
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I write about this regularly on
Brad's Tiny World. This sort of nonsense is what keeps industrialized countries that were once powers houses living in the dark ages and causes their economies to fail. That slogan and all those like it in the US, Canada, Germany etc are nothing but pathetic demagoguery meant to stir up nationalism and anger at foreigners. When you live with that sort of nostalgia for long dead industry you always get away with blaming the current government for mistakes of previous ones and prevent them from making any progress towards a new economic base effectively maintaining the status quo. By maintaining the status quo the politically conservative rabble rousers get to blame everyone and take no responsibility for anything henceforth maintaining their power base.