Where are “people” (Conservatives) getting this idea from? Governments do not have total information of the production of all goods produced in the world. How hard is it to understand they just look at the shipping location of items and their classified category?
No, he doesn’t respect at least me (or seemingly anyone) and I can show him actual government webpages or whatever and he’ll just pretend to agree and then revert back to whatever his initial position was with his mouth-breather coworkers. Talking with people like him (and my aunt on my mother’s side is the same) isn’t dialogue where there’s interplay of information and ideas, but instead I get to uncover what his internal prior belief is that’s already established and based on nothing (AKA a feeling) that’s somewhere in his subconscious. He talks until his belief is uncovered and then he’ll just keep restating that belief over and over in a recursive loop until I get pissed off.
This is every time I talk to my father in law about politics. He believes, with every fiber of his being, that the dollar is gold backed because “why else would there be so much gold in Fort Knox!” He will not suffer to hear the name Bretton Woods spoken aloud.
Well this clearly won’t do any good, but Richard Wolff has a lot of good explanations on tariffs on his youtube channel.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: